#Tillich

[noosphe-re]

If one is asked how nonbeing is related to being-itself, one can only answer metaphorically: being "embraces" itself and nonbeing. Being has nonbeing "within" itself as that which is eternally present and eternally overcome in the process of the divine life. The ground of everything that is is not a dead identity without movement and becoming; it is living creativity. Creatively it affirms itself, eternally conquering its own nonbeing. As such it is the pattern of the self-affirmation of every finite being and the source of the courage to be.

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

[dzgrizzle]

Usually when I come to this coffeehouse I see at least one person reading the Bible. This morning I see people reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich (!). The coffeehouse existentialists give me hope for humanity.

[bogusfilth]

Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage. It is impossible for a finite being to stand naked anxiety for more than a flash of time. People who have experienced these moments, as for instance some mystics in their visions of the "night of the soul," or Luther under the despair of the demonic assaults, or Nietzsche-Zarathustra in the experience of tthe "great disgust," have told of the unimaginable horror of it. This horror is ordinarily avoided by the transformation of anxiety into fear of something, no matter what. The human mind is not only, as Calvin has said, a permanent factory of idols, it is also a permanent factory of fears— the first in order to escape God, the second in order to escape anxiety; and there is a relation between the two. For facing the God who is really God means facing also the absolute threat of nonbeing. The "naked absolute" (To use a phrase of Luther's) produces "naked anxiety"; for it is the extinction of every finite self-affirmation, and not a possible object of fear and courage. But ultimately the attempts to transform anxiety into fear are in vain. The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of nonbeing, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

— Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

[funeral]

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

[11990904]

The first duty of love is to listen.

[theidealistphilosophy]

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?"

~St. Gregory of Nyssa

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"You are accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not seek for anything. Do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted."

-Paul Tillich

[palatinewolfsblog]

The Courage to Be

(Hommage a Paul Tillich)...

"Doubt is the necessary Tool of Knowledge."

[tsunami-watch]

Name: William Tillich

Age: 35

Occupation/Association: FIA Agent | NUSA

Status: Alive

Short Bio/Backstory:

You can find him in the Black Sapphire Hotel's club/casino on the top floors gambling and dealing secrets with NC's finest politicians and criminals alike. Government client has V meet him in person at the Black Sapphire for secure exchange of details, He doesn't trust much having been given many reasons not to trust anyone, offer him information, Do enough to earn his trust, he might open up a little more and can offer assistance, maybe even friendship.

Iconic Weapon/Item description:

Dice of God & Bargaining Chips (Dual Power Revolvers), names are references to his love for gambling as well as current job as an FIA Agent. Iconic modifier: Every shot fired by Dice of God has a damage increase by 10-60% (random chance). Bargaining Chips fires eurodollars instead of bullets, firing 50e per shot, increases Headshot Damage Multiplier by 77.7%.

Masterlist:

[jamelalatise]

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfil his destiny.

Paul Tillich

[noosphe-re]

We go towards something that is not yet, and we come from something that is no more. We are what we are by what we came from. We have a beginning as we have an end. There was a time that was not our time. We hear of it from those who are older than we; we read about it in history books; we try to envision the unimaginable billions of years in which neither we nor anyone was who could tell us of them. It is hard for us to imagine our "being-no more." It is equally difficult to imagine our "being-not-yet." But we usually don’t care about our not yet being, about the indefinite time before our birth in which we were not. We think: now we are; this is our time -- and we do not want to lose it. We are not concerned about what lies before our beginning. We ask about life after death, yet seldom do we ask about our being before birth. But is it possible to do one without the other?

Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

[altri-menti]

Il primo dovere dell'amore è ascoltare.

(Paul Tillich)

[marcella-delaney]

If faith is understood as belief that something is true, doubt is incompatible with the act of faith. If faith is understood as being ultimately concerned, doubt is a necessary element in it.

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith, pg. 21

[apenitentialprayer]

For God is not exterior to the being he had created; if in one sense he is indeed the "wholly Other," by that very fact he is not "purely other." He is, said Abbé Monchanin, "wholly other than the other." His transcendence brings about an intimate presence. "The transcendent source of spirits, he is their immanent link; he is the Power to whom alone man can and must give absolute obedience, unlimited sacrifice of self; he is the Power who urges us to what is good as such" [George Tyrrell]. As Paul Tillich also says, speaking of faith in the prophets, he is "the creative substratum of all things, always present in all, ever creating and destroying, always felt closer to us than we are to ourselves, while still remaining inaccessible." The voice resounds both outside and inside of the one he calls to believe, and it is in this sense that one can say that the experience of God, which is a sacred experience, since it is the experience of the sacrosanct, is not a simple experience of otherness.

- Henri de Lubac (The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles’ Creed, pages 146-147)

[perkwunos]

The doctrine of self-affirmation is a central element in Spinoza’s thought. Its decisive character is manifest in a proposition like this: “The endeavour, wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being, is nothing else but the actual essence of the thing in question” (Ethics iii. prop. 7). The Latin word for endeavor is conatus, the striving toward something. This striving is not a contingent aspect of a thing, nor is it an element in its being along with other elements; it is its essentia actualis. The conatus makes a thing what it is, so that if it disappears the thing itself disappears (Ethics ii, Def. 2). ...

... For Spinoza [love toward others] is an implication of [self-affirmation]. Since virtue and the power of self-affirmation are identical, and since “generosity” is the act of going out toward others in a benevolent affect, no conflict between self-affirmation and love can be thought of. This of course presupposes that self-affirmation is not only distinguished from but precisely the opposite of “selfishness” in the sense of a negative moral quality. Self-affirmation is the ontological opposite of the “reduction of being” by such affects as contradict one’s essential nature. Erich Fromm has fully expressed the idea that the right self-love and the right love of others are interdependent, and that selfishness and the abuse of others are equally interdependent. Spinoza’s doctrine of self-affirmation include both the right self-love (although he does not use the term self-love, which I myself hesitate to use) and the right love of others.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be

[theidealistphilosophy]

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich, Source Unlisted.