The evil spirit shook the man, gave a loud scream, and come out of him. Healing stories such as this are difficult to understand to terms of modern science. They are paradoxical, not what is expected in ordinary human experience. Tillich himself encountered the power of the demonic in 1933, when the Nazis dismissed him from his position as dean of the philosophical faculty in Frankfort, Germany. Tillich s Systematic Theology , written in America, describes the basic Christian message as paradoxical.
Truth can be paradoxical and multidimensional.