ABSTRACT
This chapter examines certain parts of Tillich's discussion of the concepts of love and power with a view to laying bare his own conception of the problem these concepts pose. The emphasis in the chapter, however, will be on the sources of Tillich's interest in the meanings of the words 'love', 'power' and 'justice'. There is thus a prima facie conflict between the use of 'love' in the Great Commandment and its use as an emotion-word. A review of Tillich's account of the various meanings of the word 'power' will serve to confirm the very important role the one-word one-root-meaning dogma plays in giving rise to his problem about the concept of power. Tillich's interest in the meaning of the word 'power' is thus aroused by the fact that the word is used in a number of different ways, when this fact is interpreted in the light of the conviction that the word must have a single (root-)meaning.
