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"Absorption with the past is …" (QOD)
I was reading Paul Tillich’s Theology of Culture again today and was struck by this quote, for which he is drawing on Heidegger who in turn was drawing on Nietzsche: Mere historical knowledge is not man’s real role as an historical being. Absorption in the past is an estrangement from our task as the makers…
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"A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue …" (QOD)
Here’s a quote of the day from Paul Tillich from his Theology of Culture: A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. And the question is quite justified whether such a thing does exist, and the answer is equally justified that it…