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...participating in eternity, man conquers the anxiety of finitude," Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, explained in the annual Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man, Thursday...
...Everything in the universe is subject to the temporal process and involves non-being in the past and in the future, and being in the present," stated Tillich. "The awareness of this is called anxiety and exists in everyone," he maintained...
...Tillich defined eternity as the "trans-temporal unity of disrupted moments in time." "Timeless and endless temporality do not describe eternity," he explained, using Hegel's term of "bad infinity...
...mystic and prophetic types of religion deal differently with the problem of immortality. Plato bridges these types in maintaining that understanding the universe is recollecting what we knew when we were with God. The philosopher, said Tillich, "is the man liberated from illusions of the cave" and not necessarily the professor of philosophy...
...Tillich described six different expressions of man's participation in the eternal. In the mystical type, the complete merging of the individual in the eternal One is emphasized. In the naturalistic type, participation in the natural universe conquers the anxiety of finitude, while in the idealistic type, the eternal is participated in through the actualization of the eternal spirit in life through culture and religion...