PAUL TILLICH

1. ONTOLOGY:

The study of being.

2. METHOD OF CORRELATION:

It is an approach that correlates insights from christian revelation with the issues raised by existential, psichological an philosophical analysis.

3. EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE:

They are associated with the field of philosophy, and more specifically, ontology.

4. LIFE LONG PURSUIT OF PHILOSOPHY:

It is the one that reveals that the central question of every philosophical inquiry always comes back to the question of being, or what it means to be, to exist, to be a finite human being.

5. THE TASK OF THE PHILOSOPHER:

It primarily involves developing the questions, whereas the task of the theologian primarily involves developing the answers to these questions.

6. CHRISTIAN MESSAGE:

It is as a response to this existential dilemma..

7. NO FORMULATION OF THE QUESTION:

It can contradict the theological answer. This is because the Christian message claims, a priori, that the logos “who became flesh” is also the universal logos of the Greeks.

8. DISTINCTION BETWEEN FORM AND CONTENT IN THE THEOLOGICAL ANSWERS:

While the nature of revelation determines the actual content of the theological answers, the character of the questions determines the form of these answers.

9. SOURCES OF THEOLOGY:

• Bible

• Church history

• History of religion and culture

10. MEDIUM OF THE SOURCES:

Collective Experience of the Church

11. NORM OF THEOLOGY:

It is the one that determins the use of sources

12. CONTENT OF WHICH IS THE BIBLICAL MESSAGE ITSELF:

EXAMPLE:

• Justification through faith

• New Being in Jesus as the Christ

• The Protestant Principle

• The criterion of the cross

13. THE CONCEPT OF BEING:

It appears in the present system in three places: in the doctrine of God, where God is called the being as being or the ground and the power of being; in the doctrine of man, where the distinction is carried through between man's essential and his existential being; and finally, in the doctrine of the Christ, where he is called the manifestation of the New Being, the actualization of which is the work of the divine Spirit.

14. LIFE AND SPIRIT:

Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction toward the future, is the dynamic quality of life. Therefore, the "riddle of history" is a part of the problem of life.

15. ABSOLUTE FAITH:

Tillich stated the courage to take meaninglessness into oneself presupposes a relation to the ground of being: absolute faith.

16. FAITH AS ULTIMATE CONCERN:

Tillich believes the essence of religious attitudes is what he calls "ultimate concern". Separate from all profane and ordinary realities, the object of the concern is understood as sacred, numinous or holy. The perception of its reality is felt as so overwhelming and valuable that all else seems insignificant, and for this reason requires total surrender.

17. THEOLOGICAL THEISM

This is the basic distinction made in Epistemology, that branch of Philosophy which deals with human knowledge, how it is possible, what it is, and its limits.

18. THEOLOGICAL THEISM 2:

It has provoked the rebellions found in atheism and Existentialism, although other social factors such as the industrial revolution have also contributed to the "reification" of the human being..

19. BIBLICAL RELIGION

It is the one that drives inescapably toward the philosophical questiono for being..

20. THEOLOGY:

It is defined as a methodical exposition of the contents of the Christian faith that must be true, on the one hand, the message that tries to formulate and, on the other, to the historical situation in
that found.

21. SIMBOLICAL CONDITION

This means that what makes this realities be part of theological reflection  is their capacity to translate and apply to important matters of human existence.

22. DIALECTICAL TENSION

This applies to two concepts which are destiny and freedom

23. RELIGIOUS SOCIALISM

This movement was aimed to host in the tradition Christian the best insights of social reform of socialism emerging as an alternative system to capitalism prevailing.

24. SPITITUAL COMUNITY

Is is the one that ssumes individuals without cancel, but transcends the mere individuality
all components for their participation in the Spirit that the says.

25. GOD ABOVE GOD

This concept was used by Tillich trying to avoid the objectification of God. His deep intention was to stress his absolute transcendence.

26. NEW BEING

it is an existential term, corresponding to the existential meaning of the German word Sein.

27. ABYSS:

The gap or abyss is then the ground of our being on the negative side, in its depth beyond rational understanding, in its threat to our not.

28. ABYSS 2:

In mystical language, the depth of life. Divine inexhausto ineffable character is called 'Abyss.

29. PARADOXICAL:

Tillich prefers this term to refer to what Karl Barth calls absurd.

30. ADAN:

It is the essential nature of man in contrast to Christ, who is the new reality of man.

31. PANIC/ANXIETY:

It is the finite-conscious. It is an ontological quality and is omnipresent.

32. CHARACTERISTICS OF THEOLOGY

He believes that theology must be both kerigmatic, as apologetics. Kerigmatic function of theology is to present the everlasting gospel, the apologetic function of theology is to present the relevance of the gospel in his era.

33. APOLOGETIC THEOLOGY

Its function is to anwear to the questions and situations that society makes and produces. It correlates. questions and answears

34. AUTHORITY MATTERS:

It is part of the dynamics of time.

35. NEW BEING 2

It means that new existence, authentic and existential, is made possible by faith in Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ the new possibility of existence has been opened. But how does this relate to Scripture?

36. AUTONOMY

Autonomy means the individual obedience to the law of reason, which is in itself, as a rational.

37. HETERONOMY

Heteronomy law imposes a strange ... law... in one or all of the functions of reason.

38.THEONOMY

It is autonomous reason united with its own depth. Tillich clears out that real theonomy does not exist in this life.

39. THE FALL

It is the most difficult and dialectical in the doctrine of creation. Man is created to stand in the divine life. But to achieve this freedom finite aims to be outside the divine life. But when he leaves God with their own lives, separated from its essence and so falls.

40. BEING OUTSIDE OF THE DIVINE LIFE

Being out of the divine life means release date placed in an existence that is never connected with the essence

41. FINAL REVELATION

Any decision is absolute in that chosen from possibilities, in addition, has the risk of the value to make such decision.

42. FREEDOM

Freedom expresses itself as decision.

43. DEVIL

Lifting something unconditionally conditional meaning.

44. KIERKEGAARD DEADLY DISEASE

It is the best description we have of despair.

45. DESPERATION

It is the inescapable conflict state and the sorrow brings death into the world. No solution of creatures in favor of despair should be sought, and less particularly about suicide. Desperation must be resolved based on eternity.

46. DIALECTIC

The dialectic has to do with the movement of being not concerned with the law of contradiction nor the structure of thought.

47. DOGMATIC

It is a statement of the traditional doctrine to our present situation.

48. GOD

Is the ground of all.

49. ESSENTIAL MANLINESS

The presence of the divine in manliness.

50. MAN

Man is the image of God because he ontological elements are complete and united in a base creature, as are complete and united in God as the creative field. Man is the image of God because their logos is analogous to the divine Logos, so that the divine logos can appear as the man without destroying the humanity of man