ABSTRACT
Paul Tillich was born in Germany, near Frankfurt an der Oder, in 1886. Tillich accepted a call to the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he taught for more than twenty years, exerting an ever-growing influence on American Protestant theology. Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. There are the main characteristics of every symbol. Genuine symbols are created in several spheres of man's cultural creativity. Myths are always present in every act of faith, because the language of faith is the symbol. The criticism of the myth first rejects the division of the divine and goes beyond it to one God, although in different ways according to the different types of religion. All mythological elements in the Bible, and doctrine and liturgy should be recognized as mythological, but they should be maintained in their symbolic form and not be replaced by scientific substitutes.
