The presupposition of doubt is the awareness of something unconditional. No polity can sustain Divinity. The Church is the teaching authority of culture. The God of time is the God of history. This means, first of all, that He is the God who acts in history towards a final goal.
History has a direction, something new is to be created in it and through it.
Paul Tillich 137 Synagogue and Church should be united in our age, in the struggle for the God of time against the gods of space. This is a period in which more than ever since Christianity has overcome paganism the gods of space show their power over souls and nations. If this would happen, if all those who struggle for the Lord of history, for his justice and truth, are united even under persecution and martyrdom, the eternal victory in the struggle between time and space will become visible once more as the victory of time and the one God who is the Lord of history. Paul Tillich 138 Leadership is evidence that the universe is not mechanistic. Return The picture at the top of this page was drawn by Mary Graham and colored by her, also.