Tillich's View Of Religious Language As Entirely Symbolic

Question 1

Within theology, Tillich is probably best known for his “? of ?” (“correlation” meaning a mutual relationship between two or more things), with an aim to correlate faith and ?

Answer 1

Theology.
Correlation.
Culture.

Question 2

Tillich was a German-American theologian who was part of a movement working to show Christianity as relevant for people living in a ?-? ?

Answer 2

Post-war society.

Question 3

Tillich believed all religious language is ? rather than literal, and can’t be ? to tests in order to assess its meaningfulness.

Answer 3

Symbolic.

Subjected.

Question 4

He argued that symbols can take us beyond the world available to our sense into the “? ?” of the symbol.

Answer 4

Internal reality.

Question 5

Tillich made a distinction between signs and ?, arguing that signs are chosen arbitrarily to stand for something else and a symbol “? in” the object represented.

Answer 5

Symbols.

Participates.

Question 6

All of our most important ideas, concerns, feelings and experiences are expressed through ?

Answer 6

Symbols.

Question 7

Following Aquinas, ? claimed that to use literal language of God’s unhelpful and conveys a false impression of the nature of ?

Answer 7

Tillich.

God.

Question 8

Tillich understood God to be Being-Itself, sometimes expressed as “? ? ? ? ?”. When understanding this, we have a solid response to the ultimate ? question.

Answer 8

The ground of all being.

Existential.