Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich Tillich was born into the family of a Lutheran pastor in the village of Starzeddel, Prussia, on Aug. 20, 1886. He studied at the university of Berlin, Tübingen, Halle, and Breslau. In 1912, at the age of 26 he was ordained a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran ...

During slavery, religion was considered both an emancipating influence (blacks created their own churches, religious ceremonies) as well as yet another method by which whites tried to further subjugate blacks into the institution of slavery. According to Jean Toomer, though, the role of r...