Tillich

Paul Tillich (A.D. 1886–1965) was a German Lutheran minister, neo Orthodox theologian, and Existentialist philosopher, who had an influential teaching career in the United States beginning in 1933. He was arguably the most influential theologian of the 20th Century. Tillich argued that God was Being itself rather than a being simply in relation to other, though different, beings. Some considered him a heretical pantheist or even an atheist. He viewed faith as “ultimate concern” and argued that theology was a matter of showing how our existential questions are answered by Christian revelation.