Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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enables man to know fullest life. Tillich said that
faith without its proper component of doubt leads the
believer into either fanaticism or hypocrisy. 19 The
person who is completely certain of his God loses
freedom, either in frenzied acts of submission to the
'god' or in attempts to maintain the image of the 'god'.
Thus, only worship of the Ultimate Being enables free
participation in the 'New Being', reconciliation with the
truly Infinite. Preaching that proclaims the infinite
majesty of God honors Him and ennobles man.
Certainly all Christianity joins Tillich in his
belief that man cannot fully describe God. 5' A smaller
group would join Tillich in stating man's total inability
to achieve objective knowled ge of the divine. There are,
of course, those who, in pride, do believe they describe
God much better than others. Between these two extremes,
however, there lies a median position perhaps closer to
reality: because God, through grace, has revealed at
least partial truth concerning himself, man can know not
only his experience of God, but, through that experience,
God Himself.
E. JAMES STEWART
James Stewart preached a call to follow the Christ
whose death on the cross had conquered evil and whose
resurrection had conquered death itself.
Stewart felt that the non—believer, lacking
knowledge of this victory, floundered in needless
despair. Man's awareness of, and submission to, Christ's