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[논문] THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (영문) (11)
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2022-05-08 06:36:05, 조회 : 759 |
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A DEMONSTRATION OF GOD AND THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (11)
by Dr. Paul B. Jang (Ph.D, Christian Apologetics) (영문) ✝✝✝
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURES:
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF
THE CONCEPTS AND EXISTENCE OF GOD
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY
The Definition of Man
He asserts the definition of man, who is essential being, as abstract. Here we can not see the figure of man. It is the only dim light into the fence. And also it is wrong for him to say that man is existentially called the fallen, the lonely in the ultimate situation.
Therefore, it must be necessary to employ the third definition.
In other words, man is an existence who is living with two sided-righteousness. This two sided-righteousness is a mixture of the first essence of man and the second existence of man. Man is essential on the one hand, and existential on the other hand.
Man is ideal but an existential one to be able to not reach the ideal.
At this point there is an instability caused by the dissociation of personality of man. A conflict or an absurdity is here. A religion has the power of being able to deliver the man in such a present situation. But the problem is that other religions have the power of healing the agony of the dissociation as well as Christ. When man has been healed, he is a new-being.
Christianity must understand the problem from Christ, and try to understand that, and try to break and heal the present situation of man through Christ. Most Christians have often said that the power of healing has been found only in Christ, and the only Christ is the Savior of man. But the healing power has not been set limits to Christianity, but the same is in other religions as well as Christianity.
The relation has expressed Christianity as Agape love only. He says all kinds of religion can endow the man who is an existential one with the same power of healing of the discrepancy. When man has been healed, Paul Tillich thinks of it, he is a new-being. And Christ became a model of the New-being. The event has existentially arisen in the Kairos. Such a new-being is the being that goes beyond the essence in history. This new-being is a new-being in the present history.
The Synthetic Statement of The Philosophical Theology
All philosophers have themselves been religious who are implicit or explicit, and they depend upon this religiosity. Whether they call this religious aspect religiosity or not, it has no problem. At any rate, man has something that he is absolutely, seriously, and truly thinking about.
It can be called religiosity. Every one has the ultimate concern about this religiosity. After examining the background of their philosophy in detail, all philosophers must have the religiosity in the base.
And, also no theologians must use nature, human being, history, time, space, cause, reality, world, spirit, and concept of flesh to which it has become the object of philosophy. No theologians can get out of these conceptions. Therefore, theologian must be philosopher, and this must be at the same time.
According to all these statements by Paul Tillich, we can conclude that his God must be no more than the Ultimate Concern, and Authority in the religiosity mentioned above.
His God is not the Lord God of the Bible as Creator and Savior. Also, He is not the Lord God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob as the One of personality, and the One of Providence. Tillich s God is no more than Ultimate Concern located in the reasons of man. This Ultimate Concern has Tillich explained as God who must be a symbolic One. 💟💟💟💟
- To be continued -
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