Paul Tillich

Paul Johannes Tillich was a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in the small village of Starzeddel , Province of Brandenburg, which village was then part of Germany. He was the oldest of three children, with two sisters Johanna and Elisabeth . Tillichs Prussian father Johannes Tillich was a conservative Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussias older Provinces his mother Mathilde Drselen was from the Rhineland and more liberal. When Tillich was four, his father became superintendent of a diocese in Bad Schnfliess , a town of three thousand, where Tillich began secondary school . In 1898, Tillich was sent to Knigsberg in der Neumark to begin his gymnasium schooling. He was billeted in a boarding house and experienced a loneliness that he sought to overcome by reading the Bible while encountering humanistic ideas at school.

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