I'm reading an old volume of sermons by theologian Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now -- see previous entry with bibliographic info. I picked it up for two bucks in Terrell, Texas, while visiting with old friends Mike and Susan Landon. He and I stopped in at a used bookstore and I came away with several good prizes.

Tillich's existentialism and "ground of being" shines through -- and I'm only on the second sermon, "Forgetting and Being Forgotten." But he takes some angles on texts and ideas that bear further thought. I'm really enjoying the read so far.

He's completely wrong on what the "last judgment" is all about, "to separate in us, as in everything, what has true and final being from what is merely transitory and empty of true being." Some true beings will be finally and completely separated from God. As such, one cannot even say he is truly Christian. But so many good thoughts!

He says, "Life could not continue without throwing the past into the past, liberating the present from its burden."

Mull it over.