“Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life.”

—  Paul Tillich

Vol.2, p. 4
Systematic Theology (1951–63)
Context: Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction

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German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

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