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Clement LO
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Date Posted: 02:35:11 03/15/05 Tue
In reply to:
Liberal for 天力
's message, "Paul Tillich on Christ, God, and Bible" on 23:54:45 03/14/05 Mon
漢語界其實有很多巴特同田立克（蒂里希）同莫爾特曼的著述。
據聞，浸大有個江教授，對巴特研究頗有心得，甚至不看他不可；小弟無緣，未曾有幸拜讀，不知是否如此也。
>I have found a very brief introduction to the theology
>of Paul Tillich.
>
>
>
>1.On Christ:
>
>Tillich's radical departure from traditional Christian
>theology is his view of Christ. According to Tillich,
>Christ is the "New Being", who rectifies in himself
>the alienation between essence and existence. Essence
>fully shows itself within Christ, but Christ is also a
>finite man. This indicates, for Tillich, a revolution
>in the very nature of being. The gap is healed and
>essence can now be found within existence. Thus for
>Tillich, Christ is not God per se in himself, but
>Christ is the revelation of God. Whereas traditional
>Christianity regards Christ as a wholly alien kind of
>being, Tillich believed that Christ was the emblem of
>the highest goal of man, what God wants men to become.
>Thus to be a Christian is to make oneself
>progressively "Christ-like", a very possible goal in
>Tillich's eyes. In other words, Christ is not God in
>the traditional sense, but reveals the essence
>inherent in all existence, including mine and your
>own. Thus Christ is not different than you or I except
>insofar as he fully reveals God within his own
>finitude, something you and I can also do in principle.
>
>
>2.On God:
>
>"God does not exist. He is being itself beyond essence
>and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is
>to deny him."
>
>This statement of Tillich's summarizes his conception
>of God. We cannot think of God as a being which exists
>in time and space, because that constrains Him, and
>makes Him finite. But all beings are finite, and if
>God is the Creator of all beings, God cannot logically
>be finite since a finite thing cannot be the sustainer
>of an infinite variety of finite things. Thus we must
>think of God as beyond being, above finitude and
>limitation, the power or essence of being itself.
>
>
>3.On Bible:
>
>A final major point of Tillich's theology is this:
>since things in existence are corrupt and therefore
>ambiguous, no finite thing can be (by itself) that
>which is infinite. All that is possible is for the
>finite to be a vehicle for revealing the infinite, but
>the two can never be confused. This leaves religion
>itself in a place where it cannot be taken as too
>dogmatic, because of it's conceptual and therefore
>finite and corrupt nature. True religion is that which
>correctly reveals the infinite, but no religion can
>ever do so in any way other than through metaphor and
>symbol. Thus the whole of the Bible must be understood
>symbolically, and all spiritual and theological
>knowledge cannot be other than symbol. This is often
>seized upon by theologians to utilize as an effective
>counterpoint to religious fundamentalism.
>
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich#Theology
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