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[논문] THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (영문) (13)
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2022-05-08 06:50:55, 조회 : 911 |
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A DEMONSTRATION OF GOD AND THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (13)
by Dr. Paul B. Jang (Ph.D, Christian Apologetics) (영문) ✝✝✝
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURES:
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF
THE CONCEPTS AND EXISTENCE OF GOD
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY
God as a Reality or a Symbol
In other words, in case of some religion, the holy experience may be expressed as patriotism, and man becomes the object of holiness. After all, nature or success in life, son, lover, husband, wife, and parents may become the Ultimate Concern. In this case, such an object is the holy object, the very God.
Tillich says when nature, honor, money, rank, parents, wife, children, and learning are of the greatest value to him according to one, they may become his God. For him God is no more than an object or content of the Ultimate Concern. Although the word God was not used, it may become God when the object of a looking into, desire, and yearning are the matter of concern.
Therefore, even though Buddhism has not used the word God, the Nirvana, the ultimate concern of it is the very God. In this sense Buddhism, Christianity, and all other religions must have their God. What is more, even the atheists, as well as the men who have no interest in God, do have their implicitly God because the ultimate concern to holiness must be latent in their mind.
For example, in case of the Nazi Party of Deutschland their God was Hitler, so called, their prophet or their fatherland. In this way, communists have made Karl Marx and their communism be their God.
All the people must have their God likewise. Accordingly, whoever must have their God, so called an Ultimate Concern, at any place at any ages. In this sense, Paul Tillich has expressed and explained God as an Ultimate Concern and systemized his theology. But how can we agree this concept of God to our Christian concept?
Because his God is no more than a symbolic God and polytheistic as well as pantheistic One, it can not be accepted into Christian doctrine, though he has used the word God. His conception of God is very different from Christian conception of God. His conception of God is non-Biblical, non-Faithful, and non-Christian. 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.
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 Paul Tillich. 💟💟💟
- To be continued -
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