Elgin did not want to leave my lap last night so we read through a favorite Paul Tillich book of mine from undergrad. It is a short book, 85 pages, based on a lecture series he gave where he connected the philosophical quest with the heart of Biblical religion. He concludes the last lecture by saying, ‘The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person.‘ The discussion that arrived there is a good one and a fun read for the interested, but everyone will probably enjoy this one:
The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.
good quote!
I am interested in learning more about thinking of God as a person. I have difficulty thinking of God as a person. Can you shed more light on the subject? It has been a long time since I read Tillich and thus do not remember much at all. Thanks !!!!