ABSTRACT
Paul Tillich's view that all human beings engage in the religious quest is bound up with his belief that there are certain anxieties from which all human beings suffer. It is these anxieties which generate the religious quest and a man's religion can consequently be seen as his way of coping with anxiety. Although Tillich does in certain passages simply identify the religious quest with the ontological enterprise, he normally recognises that they are different while still insisting that there is a close connection between them. This is the view of the ontological question which predominates in Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality. Tillich notes that the 'lack of an ontological analysis of anxiety and of a sharp distinction between existential and pathological anxiety' has stood in the way of fruitful collaboration between 'ministers and theologians' on the one hand and 'physicians and psychotherapists' on the other.
