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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA REFORMATA TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   THE QUESTION OF ESTRANGEMENT AND SIN IN PAUL TILLICHS THEOLOGY / AZ ELIDEGENEDÉS ÉS BŰN KÉRDÉSE PAUL TILLICH TEOLÓGIÁJÁBAN.

Authors:  DEÁK ANGÉLA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Paul Tillich gives a wholly dissimilar formulation of the fundamental questions of theology in a totally different social, cultural and theological environment (USA) to what we meet in Europe at the same time. Among these questions one of his basic problems was the question of estrangement-fall into sin-failure, which constitutes the spine of his systematic theological thinking. Tillich offers a particular approach of the essential and existential life. The essential life is a potential life and the existential life is an actualized life. Life is estrangement , but sin is not a creature. Estrangement is simultaneously personal and tragical. Every human being errs, this is the condition of life. However, one has a personal responsibility, the possibility to decide. This is the personal character of estrangement. The characteristics, appearance and consequences of estrangement are worked out by Tillich based on Luther’s tradition.

Keywords: estrangement, sin, essential life, existential life. 		 
         
     
         
         
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