Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Paul Tillich, John Warwick Montgomery, Robert Jenson, Charles A. Gieschen, Peter L. Berger, C. F. W. Walther, Philip Hefner, Samuel Simon Schmucker, Robert Preus, Carl Braaten, Gerhard Forde, Franz Pieper, Eric W. Gritsch, Georg Sverdrup, Matthias Loy, Martin E. Marty, Joseph Seiss, Rod Rosenbladt, Marva Dawn, August Weenaas, George Lindbeck, Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, Joseph Sittler, Ted Peters, Martin Franzmann, Craig Donofrio, Toivo Harjunpää, John W.O. Brenner, Frank Senn, Johann Michael Reu. Excerpt: Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. Among the general populace, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951-63), in which he developed his "method of correlation": an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis. Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in the small village of Starzeddel in the province of Brandenburg in eastern Germany. He was the oldest of three children, with two sisters: Johanna (b. 1888, d. 1920) and Elisabeth (b. 1893). Tillich's Prussian father was a conservative Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces; his mother was from the Rhineland and was more liberal. When Tillich was four, his father became superintendent of a diocese in Schönfliess, a town of three thousand, where Tillich began elementary school. In 1898, Tillich was sent to Königsberg to begin gymnasium. At Königsberg, he lived in a boarding house and experienced loneliness that he sought to overcome by reading the Bible. Simultaneously, however, he was exposed to humanistic ideas at school. In 1900, Tillich's father was transferred to Berlin, Tillich switching in 1901 to a Berlin school, from which he graduated in 1904. Before his graduation, however, his mother died of cancer in September 1903, when Tillich was 17. Tillich attended several universities - the University of Berlin beginning in 1904, the University of Tübingen in 1905, and the University of Halle in 1905-07. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Breslau in