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1、OntheIdeaofaTheologyofCulturePaulTillickLadiesandGentlemen!1.THEOLOGYANDPHILOSOPHYOFRELIGIONAmongtheexperientialsciences,standpointsarethingsthatmustbeovercome.Actualityisthecriterionoftruth,andactualityisone.Oftwocontradictorystandpoints,onlyonecanbetrueorbothfalse.Theprogress
2、ofscientificexperiencedecides.Ithasdecidedthattheearthisabodysuspendedinspaceandnotafloatingplate,thatthefivebooksofMosesoriginatedfromvarioussourcesnotfromMoses.Standpointsthathaveopposedtheseconclusionsareinerror.IthasnotyetbeendecidedwhoistheauthorofthelettertotheHebrews.Oft
3、hedifferentsuppositions,oneornoneistrue.Itisotherwiseamongthesystematicculturalsciences.Amongthem,thestandpointofthesystematicthinkerbelongstothethingitseEitisamomentinthehistoryofthedevelopmentofculture;itisadefiniteconcretehistoricalrealizationofaculturalidea;itisnotonlycogni
4、zantofculturebutalsocreativeofit.Herethealternation"trueorfalse"losesitsvalidity,fortheattitudesofspirittoactualityaremanifold:thereisagothicandabaroqueaesthetics,acatholicandamodernprotestantdogmatics;aro-manticandapuritanethicscanneverbedesignatedsimplytrueorfalse.Forthisreas
5、on,itisalsoimpossibletofornluniversalconceptsofculturalideas.Whatreligionorartmaybecannotbeexperiencedbymeansofabstraction:abstractionnullifieswhatisessential,namely,theconcreteforms,andnecessarilydisregardseveryconcretionthatisstilltocome.Everycultural-scientificuni-versalconc
6、eptiseitherunusableoritisaconcealednormativeconcept;itiseitheraparaphraseofnothingoritistheexpressionofastand-20VISIONARYSCIENCEpoint;itiseitheraworthlessshelloritisacreation.-Astand-pointisexpressedbyanindividual;butifitinvolvesmorethanindividualchoice,ifitiscreation,thenitisa
7、lso-inagreaterorlesserdegree-creationbyacircleinwhichtheindividualstands;andsincethiscirclewithitsownintellectualityorspiritualityisnotwi,thoutspiritualcirclesthatsurroundit,andcreationsofthepastonwhichitdepends,themostindividualstandpointisfirmlyplantedinthesoiloftheobjectives
8、piritthatisthemothersoilofeveryculturalcreation.Fromth
