Although Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich both discuss and describe the nature of faith, their definitions of faith are lie on different spectrums. While Reinhold discusses faith in more standard religious fashion, Tillich discuss not only the religious aspects of faith but also the secular aspects as well.
Reinhold begins explaining his own understanding of the faith by reminding us that there is a disconnect between irreligious and religious groups about understanding human existence. The irreligious is content with “natural cause[s]” (Niebuhr 14) because for them it is “an adequate explanation of anything that may might perceived”; (Niebuhr 14); Niebuhr then compare this mentality to those of religious groups. The common trait that religious