From Paul Tillich:
As Paul Tillich taught, honest doubt is not the opposite of faith. It’s a part of faith.
From Paul Tillich:
As Paul Tillich taught, honest doubt is not the opposite of faith. It’s a part of faith.
From Paul Tillich:
Tillich called Christian faith, the in spite of” faith.
From Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam [A.H.H.] (Macmillan, January 1, 1904)
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me than in half the creeds.
From W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (The Hogarth Press Ltd, July 1984) at p. 281-282.
the teeming jungle of plots, follies, and egoistic passions in which anyone – the innocent and the virtuous no less than the vicious – is likely to be ambushed.”
From Karl Barth:
Karl Barth was asked what was the single most important insight of his career. Barth pondered the question and then answered, Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” RefMgr field[22]: 2″
From Rowan Greer, Christian Hope and Christian Life (September 25, 2001) at page 13:
Yale scholar Rowan Greer writes that the omissions are hardly accidental. Mark is telling us that his Gospel is only the beginning of the good news,” only the beginning of Christ’s resurrection, because the good news isn’t good news for you until you complete Mark’s story.
From Karl Barth, A Chorus of Witnesses, Jesus is Victor," at pages 75-76:
“To even ask the Easter question forces us to confront both the dark limitations in our own lives and the blinding mysteries of God’s love. On the one hand, to even breath the word “resurrection” invokes, at least unconsciously, our own uncertain faith in God’s promises, our own guilt for moral failures, and our own inescapable rendezvous with death-limitations that no amount of human effort, or evolution, or enlightenment will ever transcend. [ Barth, “Jesus is Victor” at 76.] On the other hand, any attempt to comprehend resurrection asks the mind to probe not just a miracle, but “the miracle,” the miracle of God’s love – God’s incomprehensible intervention to overcome our human limitations…nothing less than the saving call from our Creator to us, “Rise up! You are fallen and dead, but I will forgive you and give you life! Rise up and live!”
From Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now, The Spiritual Presence" (1962):
The spirit can suddenly suggest to you that someone needs a call or word of encouragement, and though you feel inadequate you make the call and are astonished at how your stammered word helped them in the depths of their soul at precisely their moment of need. Or someone you had rejected or thought was of no use surprises you by offering you a word of comfort just when you needed it. The Spirit can lead you into despair that your career has been drained of meaning, but then it can open an unseen door to an entirely new vocation. The Spirit can reveal to you that you have hurt someone deeply, but then it can give you the courage and the right word to bring about a reconciliation. The Spirit can transform your aggression into serenity and transfigure your depression into stability and joy.