RE207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paul Tillich, Philology, American Anthropologist
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Novelistic don"t remember but enjoy it. Academic/critical reading: find a handful of ideas that the author really wants you to know, sometimes very basic and general. The german-american theologian paul tillich (1886-1965) defined religion succinctly as ultimate concern. That is to say, religion amounts to reflection upon topics or issues of paramount importance in life (for instance, human origin; human purpose; human fate). Vertical : it characterizes religion in terms of priority ideas. It gets around the problem of the question of does religion involve a god or gods? the answer is no not necessarily. Religion is the concern of what the greatest importance to a person is: connection to the supernatural . The american scholar robert bellah suggested that religion is a set of symbolic forms and acts that relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence .
