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Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Paul Tillich
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Paul Tillich: life dates 1886 to 1965. Wikidata Q60104, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60104 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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