Paul Tillich's Dynamics of Faith

This episode covers the main ideas of Paul Tillich’s book, “Dynamics of Faith” covering ultimate concern, symbols, myths, revelation, communities of faith, and religion vs. religion.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 Paul Tillich’s Dynamics of Faith book
2:27 What is ultimate concern?
4:28 What about religious communities?
5:33 Faith and symbols
6:34 Myths
7:57 Revelation
9:17 Subjective and objective
10:56 Language
11:35 Religion vs. religion
12:40 Wrap-up
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[@itsjc1323]

Me and my friends are using this video for our finals and you just opened our eyes, thank you

[@KittyTink]

Thank you for the clarification/summary - I do wish you made reference to the specific sections in your video to where the author said what when you break it down, but overall I found this very helpful!

[@TenOnReligion]

The episode roughly goes in the same order as the content in the book (and it's a fairly short book), but I appreciate your suggestion. I was aiming at a quick summary and didn't want to add in anything else that might make the video too long. Some other book episodes I've done added sections and it made it a little too long.

[@dsjgfhidupgjret]

Thank you, this video is the best introduction to Tillich's Dynamics of Faith on TH-cam.

[@TenOnReligion]

Thanks! I enjoy Tillich's works.

[@lokaelsabio8274]

Love your work

[@uncle0eric]

Any plans to do a video or two on Hartshorne?

[@TenOnReligion]

Probably not. I'm not that much into process theology. Try Homebrewed Christianity Podcast. Tripp Fuller sometimes does some process theology related material.

[@anthonygarcia3543]

I was just thinking very hard about this topic, and was making some headway into some ideas that are somewhat very similar to this thesis of Tillich’s

[@cathyacorn9416]

Thank you! This really helps me get a quick grasp of Tillich’s ideas, and motivates me to get his books to learn more deeply. I found you by searching YT for Tillich after enjoying Bishop Barron talk about Tillich’s “four marks of finitude”: time, space, embodiment & causality. This interested me because these seem to correspond to the basic quantities of physics, namely time, space, mass & energy, so it struck me as perhaps a metaphysical lens for appreciating Christianity, though I don’t know enough about these things to be sure. That video is here: th-cam.com/video/GX32w5Uxkwk/w-d-xo.html

[@anthonygarcia3543]

I love channels that are small now, and it looks like you may live in AZ as I do. I do love philosophy and am gaining interest in the philosophy of religion now. I’d love to maybe collaborate if you don’t mind a art collage dropout that nevertheless has some erudition in such topics because I’m a huge autodidact