Comments Off on "Absorption with the past is …" (QOD) I was reading Paul Tillich’s Theology of Culture again today and was struck by this quote, for which he is drawing on Heidegger who in turn was drawing on Nietzsche:
Mere historical knowledge is not man’s real role as an historical being. Absorption in the past is an estrangement from our task as the makers of history.
Here’s a quote of the day from Paul Tillich from his Theology of Culture:
A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. And the question is quite justified whether such a thing does exist, and the answer is equally justified that it does not exist. It is regrettable that scientists believe that they have refuted religion when they rightly have shown that there is no evidence whatsoever for the assumption that such a being exists. Actually, they have not only refuted religion, but they have done it a considerable service. They have forced it to reconsider and restate the meaning of the tremendous word God….
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