PAUL TILLICH
"The christian message provides the answers to the
questions implied in human existence "
list of the most important moments in his life/Career
1886 Tillch was born.
1890 Tillich moved to Poland.
1898 Tillich was sent to Konigsberg.
1900 Tillich was transfered to Berlin.
1903 Tillich´s mother died of cancer.
1904 Tillich graduated from school.
1904 Tillich attended the University of Berlin.
1905 Tillich attended the University of Tübingen.
1907 Tillich attended te Univesity of Halle-Wittenberg.
1911 Tillich received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Breslau.
1912 Tillich obtained his Licentiate of Theology degree at Halle-Wittenberg in 1912.
1912 During his time at university, he became a member of the Wingolf.
1912 Tillich was ordained as a Lutheran minister in the Province of Brandenburg.
1914 On 28 September he married Margarethe Wever.
1914 He joined the German army as a chaplain.
1919 He divorced Margarethe Wever.
1919 He became a Privatdozent of Theology at the University of Berlin.
1924 He got married with Hannah Werner-Gottschow
1924 He served as a Professor of Theology at the University of Marburg, where he began to develop his systematic theology.
1925 Tillich was a Professor of Theology at the Dresden University of Technology and the University of Leipzig .
1929 He held the same post at the University of Frankfurt.
1933 When Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor, Tillich was dismissed from his position.
1933 Reinhold Niebuhr urged Tillich to join the faculty at New York City’s Union Theological Seminary; Tillich accepted.[
1933 At the age of 47, Tillich moved with his family to America.
1933 He was also visiting lecturer in Philosophy at Columbia University.
1936 He published On the Boundary.
1940 He was promoted to Professor of Philosophical Theology and became an American citizen.
1948 He published The Protestant Era, a collection of his essays.
1948 He published The Shaking of the Foundations.
1951 He published volume one of Systematic Theology which brought Tillich academic acclaim
1952 He published The Courage to Be.
1955 His works led to an appointment at the Harvard Divinity School, where he became one of the University’s five University Professors – the five highest ranking professors at Harvard.
1957 He published Dynamics of faith.
1961 Tillich became one of the founding members of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, an organization with which he maintained ties the reminder of his life.
1962 He moved to Chicago University.
1965 He passed away while he was still at the University.
