Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tillich develops this idea in his latest book, Existence and the Christ (University of Chicago; $4.50), published last week as Volume II of his massive work-in-progress, a three-volume Systematic Theology. Apart from his lighter writing and lecturing on everything from modern art to depth psychology, Harvard's Tillich is attempting to construct a modern Protestant "system"-fitting all aspects of the Christian faith together in a single intellectual whole. To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago. It was constructed on a plan called "correlation...
...longer stay in the U.S. (he came at the age of 47 speaking virtually no English) as well as the services of his Harvard colleague, the Rev. John Dillen-berger, 38, who, says Tillich, "did the hard work of 'Englishing' my style." Existence and the Christ is written clearly and cleanly enough to make Tillich's theology accessible to any serious reader...
...been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus' time believed in the future resurrection of martyrs. Thus "the application of the idea of resurrection to the Christ was almost unavoidable...
...good orthodox style, Tillich sees Christ as the center of history, preceded by a line of preparatory revelation and followed by a line of later revelation. "Further . . . where there is revelation, there is salvation. Revelation is not information about divine things; it is the ecstatic manifestation of the Ground of Being in events, persons and things. Such manifestations have shaking, transforming and healing power. They are saving events in which the power of the New Being is present. On these healing forces the life of mankind always depends; they prevent the self-destructive structures of existence from plunging mankind into...
Opening night of the crusade netted 704 decisions for Christ-a record for the start of any Graham campaign in the U.S. The first week brought 2,613 to the Inquiry Tent. "It takes us about two weeks to get established in a city," says Billy. "Then more and more people begin to come. And the thing that brings them isn't the preaching. It's the fact that all through the city more and more people are going to be hearing from people who have found God here in the Garden. And people want God. So they...