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...enough to get up at nine o'clock, the Social Relations department has an offering. The Ethnology of Native North America, Soc. Re1. 124, concerns, evidently, the people of America and Canada. Over in Harvard Hall 5 today's mind comes to grips with the New Testament, and Professor Buttrick with Dewey, Fromm, Eliot, and Sartre. The course is Humanities...
...secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian and one of Harvard's six University Professors...
Tillich remains generally unaffected by all the praise he has received. "If someone charged him in public with having an intellect," Buttrick has said, "he'd be terribly embarrassed." His sense of humor usually remains latent, but it erupts perhaps once a month with some such example of quiet Tillichian humor as: "In Germany the parents bring up the child; in America the child brings up the parents. I moved from Germany to America, so I lose both ways." Or, there was the slightly irreverent remark that Tillich made after the death of an eminent religious philosopher: "Such a shame...
Revolt or not, says the Rev. George Buttrick, Harvard's professor of Christian morals, "the cycle has come full turn. Once we doubted our faith. Now we have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion...
Armstrong announced at the meeting that Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, have agreed to serve as advisers to the project...