Tillich on the Ambiguity of Spiritual Presence: More Protestant Principle Than Catholic Substance?

In his Systematic Theology, volume 3, Tillich’s existentialist ontology led him to emphasize fragmentary moments in politics of individual realizations of theonomous (vs. autonomous or heteronomous) culture, rather than religiously grounded social agendas. By comparison with William Temple’s religious socialism, Tillich’s privileged the Protestant principle against idolizing leaders rather than the Catholic substance of sacramentally incarnated commonwealths.