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Paul Tillich - Life & Spirit ((Self-Creation (Culture) Ambiguities of…
Paul Tillich - Life & Spirit
Nature of Life
No levels, but dimensions of life
Man is riches in dimensions
Spirit is not higher than inorganic, but rises out of it
Self-Creation (Culture)
Ambiguities of Cultural Act
Linguistic, cognitive, and aesthetic
Technical and personal transformation
Communal Transformation
Self-Integration (Morality)
Personal integration requires sacrifice and takes risks
The highest law is "love". But how come love is a "law".
"What is love?" is universal, but "What to do by love?" is particular.
Willing does not necessarily lead to Doing
Self-Transcendence (Religion)
Ambiguities:
Profanization of the holy
Demonization of the holy
Manifestation of the Spiritual Presence in the spirit of Man
Character of the Manifestation
Media of Spiritual Presence
sacramental acts (broader in everything when Spirit is experienced, in narrower sense in Church sacraments such as charity, in narrowest sense in the great sacraments)
Word of God
Any words can be Word of God, apart from the Bible. God can tell words by any means. It is the same as Barth's and Luther's thoughts. Word of God is an event (in the presence of the Spirit)
Unity of Ecstasy and Structure
Prayer is unity of subject and object
Ecstasy
human spirit is driven into a successful self-transcendence
Content of the Manifestation
Faith
Formal Faith / Material Faith
Faith encompasses intellect, will and emotion. It's by God. (Barth)
Three elements: receptive, paradoxical, anticipatory
Love
Love vs Agape
Manifestation of the Spiritual Presence in Historical Mankind
Spiritual Presence in History
Mankind is left alone. God's participation is fragmentary in men's history
Spiritual Presence in Religions
mysticism and exclusive monotheism
Spirit Presence in Jesus as Christ
Spirit Christology - bottom up, Divine Spirit falls on Jesus
The Divine Spirit can fall on human before an after Jesus
Spiritual Presence in Spiritual Community
Unambiguous and Fragmentary
Not identical with the Chuch
The Church is its manifest form: others is its secular latent form
It is latent in other religions (anonymous Christians - Karl Rahner)
Missionary implications: non-christian people are not strangers in spiritual community. This can avoid christian arrogance.
6 Spiritual Community of faith and love is characterized by unity, universality and holiness.
Spiritual community manifested in unity of religion, culture, and morality
The Divine Spirit & the Ambiguities of Life
The Spiritual Presence and the Ambiguity of Religion
Functions
Function of
Constitution
: Polarity of tradition and reformation, including receiving and response
Function of
Expansion
: Polarity of verity and adaptation, including missions, education and evangelism
Function of
Construction
: aesthetic, cognitive and communal
Function of Relation (Calvin): silent interpenetration (priestly), critical judgment (prophetic), and political establishment (royal)
Spiritual Community and Church, churches
Church: theological and sociological reality
Spiritual Community is the inner telos (content) of the churches
Paradox: church participates in ambiguities of life and unambiguous life of the Spiritual Community
Individuals
Conversion is a long process
Conquest of Religion and Protestant Principle
Church and members cannot claim absolute
Protestant principle rejects absolutism
The Spiritual Presence and the Ambiguities of Culture
Religion and Culture
The principle of
consecration of the secular
convergence of the holy and the secular
belongingness of religion and culture to each other
Humanism and Theonomy
Culture under the impact of Spiritual Presence
Truth and expressiveness
Purpose and humanity
Power and Justice
The Spiritual Presence and the Ambiguities of Morality
Love
Love is not a law nor ought-to-be
Theonomous morals are morals of love as a creation of the Spirit
Ambiguities of Life
The Spirit Presence