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"Cf. "Since there is no revelation unless there is
someone who receives it as revelation, the act of reception
is part of the event itself." Ibid. 1:40.
' i Tillich, Biblical Religion. p. 3. (Cf. "There
is no revelation if there is no one who receives it as his
ultimate concern." Systematic Theology. 1:123.)
"42.Tillich, "The World Situation," in Tillich,
et.al ., The Christian Answer. (London: Nisbet, 1946), p
69.
"Tillich, Systematic Theology. 1:39.
11:125. (Although Tillich recognized the
presence of myth within Scripture, he refused to
'demythologize' the Biblical symbols. "A myth is a whole of
symbols expressing man's relation to that which concerns him
ultimately, the ground and meaning of his life. Myth is
more than primitive world-view--with which Bultmann wrongly
equates it; it is the necessary and adequate expression of
revelation." Tillich, "The Present Theological Situation,"
in Theology Today. p. 306.)
Systematic Theology. 1:40.
Dynamics of Faith. p. 32. (Cf. "The
sources of systematic theology can be sources only for one
who participates in them, that is, through experience.
Experience is the medium through which the sources 'speak'
to us, through which we can receive them." Systematic
Theology. 1:46.)
'47 Tillich, Dynamics of Faith. p. 32.
4e 'Man cannot receive an answer to a question he has
not asked. . . . Any such answer would be foolishness for
him, an understandable combination of words--as so much
preaching is--but not a revelatory experience." Tillich,
Systematic Theology. 11:15.
Theology of Culture. p. 206.
p. 201. (Cf. "The success of a theology
when it is applied to preaching or to the care of souls is
not necessarily a criterion of its truth." Tillich,
Systematic Theology. 1:4.)
'51 Tillich, Systematic Theology. 111:209.
Cf. "Neither he who affirms nor he who denies God
can be ultimately certain about his affirmation or his
denial." From "The Divine Name," in The Eternal Now.
(London: SCM, 1963), p. 82.
The Protestant Era. p. xxix. (Cf. "God
is always infinitely near and infinitely far. We are fully
aware of him only if we experience both of these aspects."
From "Spiritual Presence," in The Eternal Now. p. 73.
"The necessary openness of Christianity to the
truth of other religious systems is a significant premise of
Christianity and the Encounter of World Religions. (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1963).
Dynamics of Faith. p. 57.
Tillich, Systematic Theology. 111:188-89. (Cf.
Christianity and World Religions. p. 32,47.)
Biblical Religion. p. 68.
"seTillich, Theology of Culture. p. 213.
'"Tillich, "The Relevance of the Ministry," in