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From the perspective of Paul Tillich’s theology of culture: on the ultimate concern in language

Cite: , W perspektywie teologii kultury Paula Tillicha: o trosce (i powadze) w języku, "Kultura - Media - Teologia", 2022( 50) nr 2, s. 220-236.

DOI: 10.21697/kmt.50.11

In this article I refer to Paul Tillich’s conception of a theology of culture, namely, to his reflection on the place attributed to religion in the space of man’s cultural endeavours. Tillich ultimately defines religion as a dimension of all forms of man’s spiritual (cultural) activity, the aspect/dimension that he calls depth and which he combines with the attitude of ultimate concern. My aim is to present ultimate concern as a function of one’s linguistic activity. Then, on the example of texts taken from 19th- and 20th-century philosophy and literature (Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, and Rosi Braidotti), I discuss less obvious forms of ultimate concern in speech or its absence.

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Marta Zając

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