Tillich’s desire to synthesize Philosophy with Theology is undoubtable noticeable when his hypothesis raises issues surrounding faith and doubt. Tillich’s defense that Theology exists to satisfy those things that concern an individual show that Tillich acknowledged doubt and felt that Theology played an essential role in minimizing it. Tillich did however differentiate between “concern” and “ultimate concern”. Concerns he hypothesized differed from ultimate concerns in that ultimate concerns dealt with those issues which defined the meaning of life and/or issues related to one’s external destination (Feser, 2011). Concerns by Tillich’s standards can and oftentimes do exist among a variety of life’s lesser aspects for all individuals. Under…show more content… His assertion that God is more fittingly termed as a “being” who rather than possessing power is His “own” power falls under the commonly held doctrine of divine simplicity (Feser, 2011). Tillich’s conception of God therefore is one in which “God does not exist” as that would imply God as a Being with like mannerism, power attributes as lesser beings (Feser, 2011). To the contrary, Tillich hypothesizes that God is rather “being-itself” which supersedes an existence. In disagreement with Tillich’s hypothesis surrounding God’s existence, many have found conflict surrounding his assertion that questioning the existence of God constitutes an awareness of God which in turn lends support for His existence. Opposing this hypotheses, Tillich’s critics are quick to reference Tillich’s previous writings in Systematic Theology, Volume 1 which stated that “the method of arguing through a conclusion…contradicts the idea of God” and therefore claim that neither the question or the existence of just any answer lend to or discredits the existence of God (Feser,
