“In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.”

—  Paul Tillich, book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 133

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German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

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