Book description
Attempts to show the religious dimension in many special spheres of man's cultural activity.
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Paul Tillich is my choice for the great theologian of the twentieth century (not Karl Barth, orthodoxy’s hero).
For Tillich, religion is not a matter of creeds but a matter of “ultimate concern,” of what is unconditionally important; “God” is not the Supreme Being, but the “ground of being;” religion is not particular cultural practice but the depth structure of the entire culture; dig deeply enough into art or science or anything, and you will hit theological ground.
His Dynamics of Faith and The Courage to Be are his “greatest hits,” but I love Theology of Culture because it lays…
From John's list on now that religion has made itself unbelievable.
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