Tag: Tillich
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Myth, Bible, Religion (ii)
In thinking about myth, I wrote last time about the sometimes limited ability of words to fully describe. This, of course, doesn’t hinder words from evoking the indescribable. A favourite example comes from William Wordsworth – That’s an eight line, non-description of what is intangible, but it’s also a matchless evocation of what Paul Tillich […]
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Believing in God
Do I believe in God? This question is perhaps next door to meaningless and therefore unanswerable. There are probably as many meanings for the word God, as there are people in the world. Let’s start with the fact that God is a three-letter word. Grammatically, it’s a noun and, in my schooldays at any rate, […]
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Ground of all Being
The philosopher of religion, Paul Tillich, imagined God, not as “a being” but as “being-itself or the ground of all being”, the ultimate Source of all that is, which is beyond the reach of human minds and words to comprehend or describe. Modern Science imagines a universal, multilayered Energy Field, intangible and invisible, out of […]
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