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The Concept of Philosophical Theology in the Thought of Paul Tillich

The aim of this paper is to analyse Paul Tillich’s concept of “philosophical theology”. Tillich first of all sees a fundamental connection between the philosophical question concerning “being” and the theological question concerning “God”. For Tillich, the ontological question of being-itself that leads to “God” springs from human finitude. In that sense, this question must be asked because “the threat of nonbeing” – which man experiences as anxiety in his finitude – necessarily leads man to the question of “being-itself” that can overpower non-being, as well as the question of courage that can overpower anxiety. This “being-itself” is identified with “God”.

Paul Tillich, being-itself, non-being, God, “philosophical theology”

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