Marbaniang, Domenic

For Paul Tillich , the theological concept of God as the Supreme Being is wrong. In the concluding pages of The Courage to be ,  he stated that theological theism is a doctrine about God and man as two persons "who may or may not meet but who have a reality independent of each other", and as such is is need to be transcended because this view is wrong. For Tillich, God cannot just be another being out there; God is the ground of being; God is being-itself, and as such the source of all being. The God of theological theism is a being beside others and as such a part of the whole of reality. He certainly is considered its most important part, but as a part and therefore as subjected to the structure of the whole. He is supposed to be beyond the ontological elements and categories which constitute reality. But every statement subjects him to them. He is seen as a self which has a world, as an ego which is related to a thou, as a cause which is separated from its effect, as...