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Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich

1886 CE–1965 CE · Modern · Starzeddel (Starosiedle)

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was a German-American theologian and philosopher widely regarded as one of the most significant Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. He developed a "method of correlation," which sought to answer the existential questions posed by modern culture through Christian theological symbols, synthesizing insights from existentialism, depth psychology, and ontology. His three-volume Systematic Theology stands as his magnum opus, articulating God as "the Ground of Being" rather than a being among beings. His popular work The Courage to Be applied Tillichian ontology to the problem of anxiety and non-being, reaching audiences far beyond academic theology. Tillich's insistence on the theological significance of art, politics, and culture established a lasting foundation for theology of culture as a discipline.

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Starzeddel (Starosiedle)Germany

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Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in the village of Starzeddel in the Province of Brandenburg, then part of the German Empire (now Starosiedle, Poland).

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Starzeddel (Starosiedle), a village in Brandenburg/Lower Lusatia, now in western Poland. It was the birthplace of the theologian Paul Tillich (1886).

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