"Xavier Lechard"
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:31:52 +0200
Atheist theologian?
Subject: [Bede's Library] Paul Illitch, an atheist?
From the Wikipedia article on "Non-theism" this quote from Sidney Hook:
"With amazing courage Tillich boldly says that the God of the multitudes does not exist, and further, that to believe in His existence is to believe in an idol and ultimately to embrace superstition. God cannot be an entity among entities, even the highest. He is being-in-itself. In this sense Tillich's God is like the God of Spinoza and the God of Hegel. Both Spinoza and Hegel were denounced for their atheism by the theologians of the past because their God was not a Being or an Entity. Tillich, however, is one of the foremost theologians of our time."
I am not that into liberal theology, but it does seem to me a bit disingenuous and a misreading of Tillich's positions.
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