Author: Glenn Chesnut

Einstein rejected all fear based and moral religion. The only valid aspect of religion for him lay in the third kind of religion; cosmic religion and he attempted to describe this cosmic religious feeling in this article, which he said had been a part . . . Read More

The important thing to note here is that Tillich insists that talk about a personal God is symbolic language (a metaphor) and not a literal description of a being that thinks and acts exactly like a human being, except that he is much bigger and stronger. . . . Read More

This week’s DYK is continued from newly released book, God and Spirituality: A symbol, in Tillich’s theological system, is a signpost pointing our attention to something else. But we must remember that the symbol is not that to which it . . . Read More

This week’s DYK is about the need for symbolic language and metaphor. We cannot talk literally about the infinite without falsifying its infinite qualities, so there are few (if any) fully literal statements that we can make about the divine ground. . . . Read More

Paul Tillich turned forty-three in 1929 and he finally got what he always wanted.He was given a full professorship (in sociology and philosophy) at the University of Frankfurt, a good university in a decent sized city, teaching exactly what he had . . . Read More

This week’s DYK is a continuation of Paul Tillich’s story:  Tillich did successfully get through World War I and his Dark Night of the Soul, and began building a new life for himself. . . Read More

This week’s DYK was written by a prominent professor with long-time sobriety: If the ground of being which preceded the Big Bang which created our universe could run out of energy, it would already have done so at some time in the . . . Read More