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Existence of God (The Criticism On the Concept Of God in Tillich)
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Paul Jang
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The Criticism On Tillich's Concept Of God
In this section, the references from Paul Tillich have been cited here (Tillich's Systematic Theology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967, vol. I, pp. 10, 12-14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 36, 42, 50, 53, 110, 111, 115, 118, 120, 121, 124, 127, 131, 140, 148, 156, 211, 214-16, 220, 223, 230, 273, vol. II, pp.9, 14, 26, 30, 46,87, and vol. III, pp. 102, 125, 130, 154, 223, 281, 283, 289, 293, 349, 422).
All his works on the systematic theology are an existential philosophical understanding using the framework of the traditional positions, and a sort of rewriting on the Christian dogma with a new idea in all his way. He has his starting point with the "Method of Correlation" through the existential philosophy. He emphasized the correlation between the philosophy and theology. For him, philosophy asks the question about ontology, while theology answers that question.
He asserts there are two kinds of theology, namely kerugmatic theology and apologetic theology. The former is concerned about proclamation of Gospel, the latter about the existential question of man. For him, the mission of theology makes the work to be correlated between the existential questions of man and revelatory answers, kerugmas.
In a word, his theology is a sort of philosophical theology using the method of the correlation which gives the revelatory answers to the existential questions. Especially, it is crucial to ask the existential question of being of God as well as the being of man. For him, being of God could not be helped denying because it has the relative conception.
And so he says that God cannot be a being because the being must be the relative one. Because God is not being but a "Ground of Being" making the being to be. According to this theory, God of Tillich is nothing more than impersonal God. His God is not so much the personal God as a symbolic God. The writer is going to criticize on this problem in this section of his dissertation.
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Introduction
Theology 