Re: Tillich's Urgrund/Urbild

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In a message dated 12/31/2002 5:09:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,

MurrellB@... writes:

> this particular essay, the focus

> will be on Tillich's sense of the *Urgrund* -- a German word

> for the primeval Ground of Being-- and the *Urbild,* which

> means the Original Archetype.

>

Nice piece. I was wondfering if you meant " Ungrund " Tillich's revision of

Jakob Boehme's 'Abrund', as the 'Groundless Grouond of Being' ? Or, is there

some reference you can point me to in Tillich for this use of Urgrund? Not

sure if this is a typo, and not sure if I have missed something in Tillich,

so I'm not splitting hairs. Thanks,

C. , Ph.D.

ShamanicAR@...

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Hello--Tillich talks of the Urgrund regarding his own thought

about the Universal Plenum, but he makes note of Boehme's

Ungrund which BTW is mentioned in the essay.

As for references, they are listed throughout the essay--

including page numbers, if you wish to check specifics.

--Beatrix

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I loved this offering. Thankyou very much Beatrix.

>From: MurrellB@...

>

>It would seem that Tillich throws the divine ball into Creation, into the

>milieu of Matter, into our very own laps.

>

>Dourley proceeds: " Hence man's situation in existence is depicted in the

>tension between his experience of his essential self and his existential

>distance and alienation from it. Tillich believes that man cannot destroy

>the groundedness of his essential being in God, but neither can he regain

>it or confer it upon himself...The movement towards or back to the

>essential...is still the basic movement of life...

That is why I like middle way writings of the Zen master Dogen, because he

writes to not shun the material. This I believe would lead to resolution in

time.

Colette

>

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