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Tillich

American  
[til-ik, til-ikh] / ˈtɪl ɪk, ˈtɪl ɪx /

noun

  1. Paul Johannes 1886–1965, U.S. philosopher and theologian, born in Germany.


Tillich British  
/ ˈtɪlɪk /

noun

  1. Paul Johannes. 1886–1965, US Protestant theologian and philosopher, born in Germany. His works include The Courage to Be (1952) and Systematic Theology (1951–63)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“The Jewish nation is the nation of time, in a sense which cannot be said of any other nation,” the German Protestant theologian Paul Tillich explained in 1938:

From Salon Mar. 31, 2024

As I quote Paul Tillich: “Doubt is not the opposite of faith. It’s a part of faith.”

From Scientific American May 20, 2020

Though he likes to refer to sophisticated theologians like Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and Rudolph Bultmann, he works from a fundamentalist canon of the Scripture.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2018

On our morning runs, David and I often talk about Paul Tillich, the German American theologian who’d served as a chaplain during the first world war.

From The Guardian Dec. 25, 2017

The Tillich bricks are good playthings, and so is cardboard money—shillings, sixpences, threepences, pence and halfpence.

From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)

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