Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Philosophy Documentation Center
Source Publication
Philosophy and Theology
Source ISSN
0890-2461
Abstract
This paper explores Paul Tillich’s use of the Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy in his explorations of the relevance of historical forms of Christian belief to contemporary culture, where human experience is marked by anxiety and guilt, and where the search for ultimate meanings seems to dead-end in meaninglessness. For Tillich as for Schelling, religion points to metaphysics. The only literal or nonsymbolic truth about God is that God is the affirmation of being over against the possibility of nonbeing, a divine Yes that is an overcoming of a prior No or self-inclusion. The ambiguity of existence as current human beings experience it is itself religious experience.
Recommended Citation
Vater, Michael, "Ultimate Concern and Finitude: Schelling’s Philosophy of Religion and Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology" (2017). Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications. 686.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/phil_fac/686
Comments
Accepted version. Philosophy and Theology, published online first August 25, 2017. DOI. © 2017 Philosophy Documentation Center. Used with permission.