http://www.metafilter.com/tags/non-being Posts tagged with 'non-being' at MetaFilter. Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:40:34 -0800 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:40:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48812/Paul%2DTillich%2Dthe%2DApostle%2Dto%2Dthe%2DIntellectuals <a href="http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/tillich.jpg">Paul </a><a title="And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." href="http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/localgov/images/tillich_stone.jpg">Tillich</a> (1886-1965) was a German <a href="http://www.faithnet.org.uk/Theology/tillich.htm">thinker</a> who came to <a title="The North American Paul Tillich Society" href="http://www.napts.org/">America</a> in 1933 after <a href="http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/tillich.html">losing his job </a>for <a title="Online copy of a book on Tillich's Wartime Addresses... god bless the internets" href="http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=74651856">opposing the national socialism movement.</a> Tillich was at once a <a href="http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_755_tillich.htm">protestant</a> <a href="http://www.quodlibet.net/olson-tillich.shtml">theologian</a> and an <a href="http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/cree/tillich.htm">existentialist</a> <a href="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-7266">philosopher</a> and <a href="http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/102003/commentary.shtml">humanist</a> who attempted to <a title="'Religion and its Intellectual Critics' by Paul Tillich; an argument that a religion that hides from intellectual criticism and does not respond to its attacks is no more than a superstition." href="http://www.mediatimesreview.com/february05/tillich.php">intellectualize religion </a>and bring it to contemporary audiences <a title="'Theism Rewritten for the Age of Science'" href="http://www.godweb.org/Tillich.htm">in the age of science</a>. His brilliant <a title="A collection of his writings including entire books." href="http://www.religion-online.org/listbycategory.asp?Cat=24">writings</a> and <a title="A philosophical sermon on Psalm 139" href="http://www.godweb.org/shaking.htm">speeches</a> would typically weave together biblical passages with discussions of philosophy and science. In this most famous work, <a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300084714">The Courage to Be</a>, Tillich laid out <a title="An Outline of The Courage to Be" href="http://www.escapefromwatchtower.com/tilground.html">his case </a>of how man can resolve the <a href="http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/shaw.html">existential crisis of facing non-being</a>. In echoes of <a title="Fear and Trembling" href="http://www.sorenkierkegaard.org/kw6a.htm">Soren</a> <a title="The Sickness Unto Death" href="http://www.sorenkierkegaard.org/kw19.htm">Kierkegaard</a> and <a title="The Future of an Illusion" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/future1.html">Freud</a>, Tillich attempted to explain how man could resolve the fear of nothingness with <a title="'The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.'">the Courage to Be </a> <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2553&C=2405">in the face of Non-being</a>. Throughout his life, Tillich's <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=375&C=33">ultimate concern </a>was to <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2522">try to help man understand </a>the real <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=375&C=22">value</a> of<a href="http://www.quodlibet.net/smith-tillich.shtml"> faith </a>and <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=378&C=72">meaning</a> by divorcing the concepts from the <a title="Mythology of Culture" href="http://www.sarcc.org/Tillich.htm">myths</a> and the <a title="Humanism After Tillich" href="http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9704/stackhouse.html">religious and social dogmas</a> which cramp the mind of <a href="http://batr.org/solitary/011304.html">modern man</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48812 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:40:34 -0800 American being courage existentialism Freud German Kierkegaard non-being Paul philosopher philosophy religion science thinker Tillich dios