Paul Tillich 1886 – 1965

Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Lutheran theologian and philosopher of religion and one of the most widely read religious thinkers of the twentieth century. After service as a chaplain on the Western Front in the First World War, he taught at Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Frankfurt before being dismissed by the Nazi government in 1933 as the first non-Jewish professor barred from German universities. He spent the rest of his career at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard, and Chicago. His three-volume Systematic Theology and shorter The Courage to Be became twentieth-century classics.