Summary of Paul Tillich's Dynamics of Faith

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned: the dynamics of faith are the dynamics of man’s ultimate concern. Man, like every living being, is concerned about many things, but man has spiritual concerns that are extremely important and cannot be ignored.
#2 Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. The content matters immensely for the life of the believer, but it does not matter for the formal definition of faith.
#3 Faith is an act of the total personality. It occurs in the center of personal life and encompasses all its elements. Faith is the most personal of all personal acts, and it involves the participation of the unconscious elements in the personality structure.
#4 Faith is a personal, centered act that transcends both the drives of the non-rational unconscious and the structures of the rational conscious. It is not an act of any of man’s rational functions, but it is an act in which both the rational and non-rational elements of his being are transcended.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Theology
• Philosophie et théologie
• Systematics

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822500341
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Paul Tillich's Dynamics of Faith
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#1

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned: the dynamics of faith are the dynamics of man’s ultimate concern. Man, like every living being, is concerned about many things, but man has spiritual concerns that are extremely important and cannot be ignored.

#2

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. The content matters immensely for the life of the believer, but it does not matter for the formal definition of faith.

#3

Faith is an act of the total personality. It occurs in the center of personal life and encompasses all its elements. Faith is the most personal of all personal acts, and it involves the participation of the unconscious elements in the personality structure.

#4

faith is a personal, centered act that transcends both the drives of the non-rational unconscious and the structures of the rational conscious. It is not an act of any of man’s rational functions, but it is an act in which both the rational and non-rational elements of his being are transcended.

#5

The act of faith is embedded in the totality of psychological processes. The presupposition of a psychology of faith is that fear or something else from which faith is derived is more original and basic than faith. But this presupposition cannot be proven.

#6

The act of faith is a total and centered act of the personal self. It is the concern about the unconditional and ultimacy, and it is this element that makes faith a human potentiality.

#7

The term ultimate concern unites the subjective and objective sides of the act of faith — the fides qua creditur and the fides quae creditur. The first is the classical term for the centered act of the personality, while the second is the classical term for that toward which this act is directed, the ultimate itself.

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