Tag: Doubts
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Tillich’s Absolute Faith
For those most in the grip of the doubt and meaninglessness of our age, we have seen that none of the answers which served in past eras offer respite from despair. To take seriously our limitations, our ignorance both collectively and individually, our weakness, and human finitude, is to enter the darkness of existential anxiety.…
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Modern Doubt: Options
In this modern era, everything can be questioned. Traditional answers have no power to convince the skeptic; we no longer collectively assume and share a coherent reality, and we are capable of doubting any proposed order to our existence. Anyone who really pursues these questions comes to recognize the possibility of meaninglessness, of nothingness beneath…
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The Power of Doubt
In Paul Tillich’s retelling of changing culture and dominant human anxieties since antiquity, he emphasizes that modernity introduced, for the first time in human consciousness, the self-understanding of the person as an individual. Our identity is no longer merely as part of a collective mass of humanity, of some tribe or people, but we think…