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Existence of God (Synthetic Statement Of Philosophical Theology) (3)
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Existence of God (Synthetic Statement Of Philosophical Theology) (3)
God as an Ultimate Concern
Tillich's God is not a real existence. In spite of that, even the new theologians and religious philosophers, as well as Paul Tillich, would have used the term God. One of them Altizer cried, "God is dead." Of course Thomas Altizer has a different slant from the Nietzschean cry.
For him, the death of God occurred at the time of the coming of Jesus. In other words, for Altizer, God as transcendent has died, but God as immanent has been born again in the incarnation of Christ. God nullifies divine otherness in order that God might affirm human here-and-nowness.
And so the Christian can proclaim the glade tidings that God is dead. This is the good news of the Gospel. The death of God has occurred in a particular historical event, the Incarnation. He is a lovely disciple of Tillich.
In the light of this interconnections, it is just necessary to understand Tillich's theology in order to know the new theology, non-religionization, the gospel of Christian atheism, secularization, and situation ethics.
Whatever it must become God when it has the ultimate nature. It is the very God of whom he speaks. But the Ultimate Concern or Ultimate Reality has always appeared as a symbolic expression.
As a matter of fact, they can be explained by only a sensible method. If so, what is the symbol? It must be explained in order to understand his God.
Difference between Symbol and Sign
Symbol and Sign are the same term used when it points out and expresses a certain transcendent One, and both play the same role. For instance, the red light of the traffic signal points to stop.
But its light color is not significant, but the significance of the signal, the sign to stop the cars, is important. In this way, the sign is convenient when it points to transcend itself. This is the feature of the sign.
Symbol and Meaning
In this point, the symbol also is not different from sign. For instance, the image of Buddha in Buddhism points to the mind of Buddha, namely Ultimate Reality taking place in the image of Buddha. In this way, the red light before the cross-way and the image of Buddha or the image of Christ on the holy picture are different from each other.
That is following: The signal is a simple sign or a mark, but the image of Buddha or the image of Christ on the holy picture is a symbol. This is the difference.
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