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the New Being through which the destructive consequences of
estrangement are conquered." Systematic Theology. 11:179.
Note also, "The word 'grasped' . . . means only that we did
not produce it [faith, the experience of the New Being], but
found it in ourselves. It may have developed gradually, it
may sometimes be the result of a dramatic experience. But
it does not really occur . . . through the establishment of
a method for achieving it." Ultimate Concern: Tillich in
Dialogue. Edited by D. McKenzie Brown. (London: SCM,
1965), p. 9.)
"The Yoke of Religion," in The Shaking of
the Foundations. p. 102.
T11lich, "You Are Accepted," in The Shaking of the
Foundations. p. 162. (Cf. "Justificxation by grace and
through faith alone is the paradox that man, the sinner, is
justified; that man the unrighteous is righteous; that man
the unholy is holy, namely, in the judgment of God, which is
not based on any human achievements but only on the divine,
self-surrendering grace. Where this paradox of the
divine-human relationship is understood and accepted, all
ideologies are destroyed. Man does not have to deceive
himself about himself, because he is accepted as he is, im
the total perversion of his existence." The Protestant Era.
Translated by James L. Adams. (London: Nisbet, 1951) , p.
247,48.)
"Tillich, Systematic Theology. 1:3. Tillich's
largely negative evaluation of contemporary preaching
reflects his dual emphasis on the relatively stable
Christian message and the ever-changing statement of that
message. "The majority of ministers do not preach and teach
the 'Word of God' ['the self-manifestation of that which
concerns everyone ultimately'] in such a way that it can be
understood and received as a matter of ultimate concern by
the people of our time. . . . The ministry has lost its
relevance insofar as it cannot communicate the Christian
message, which is a matter of ultimate concern, as a matter
of ultimate concern--religiously speaking--as the 'Word of
God.'" From "The Relevance of the Ministry," in Making the
Ministry Relevant. p. 22.
.319"The 'method of correlation' . . . tries to
correlate the questions implied in the situation with the
answers implied in the message. . . . It correlates
questions and answers, situation and message, human
existence and divine manifestation." Tillich, Systematic
Theology. 1:8. (Cf. 1:70-72.)
"Human existence does not involve answers to the
question of man's relation to God; it involves the question.
In the very structure of human existence--in the structure
of finite being with its anxiety and its courage, in the
structure of estranged existence with its despair and
self-destruction, in the structure of the ambiguous
character of life with its creativity and tragedy--the
question of God is implied. But the answer, if it appears,
appears in revelation." Tillich, "The Present Theological
Situation in the Light of the Continental European
Development," in Theology Today. VI(October, 1949):305.