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Australian-born Congregationalist A. Campbell Garnett, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Philosophical Association, thinks that most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...
Philosopher Garnett blames the ancient Greeks for a large part of the trouble. The church fathers leaned heavily on Greek metaphysics and produced a natural theology that attempted to prove logically the existence of God and to define his nature. For Protestants at least, Garnett thinks, science has swept away such metaphysics; instead, they refer to God in the Biblical language of faith. But they recognize at the same time "that these Biblical concepts and statements cannot be taken literally as if they were pure history and science. They are symbols and their meaning lies deeper." The result is that...
Love for the "ultimate reality" is even harder to come by. Such abstractions, Garnett points out, are at best concerned only with what God means to humans-not what humans mean to God. And hu mans need the love that is agape, not eros-"concerned not merely with what the other means to us but with what we, in our lives, may mean to the other, whether he has joy in us, or sorrow, whether we serve him or disappoint...
...stemming from actions and positions of months ago, the seemingly spontaneous New Eisenhower line, especially in the U.S. press, was a journalistic baffler, though it did make for some bright writing and the appearance of punditic discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really...
CLAUDE B. GARNETT Arvada, Colo...