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Whereas professors like Morton White and Buttrick emphasize the difference between teaching religion and teaching about it, Paul Tillich, University Professor, sees an essential spiritual unity in all attempts at scholarship. In a disquisition last November to the Overseers on "Religion in the Intellectual Life of the University," Tillich concluded: "In many realms of the scholarly work of a university the religious dimension is revealed, independent of a concrete religious tradition." For Tillich, "the religious question is the question of human existence generally...
...deleterious elements of secularism and the fact that Harvard was a secular university. Pusey clarified, "There can be no quarrel in a university with secularism itself, but only with it as it comes hubristically in its turn to pretend to speak for the whole of life." For Pusey, therefore, there is no absolute resolution of the dichotomy, but rather a balancing of religious and secular forces, each of which has its proper role in the University's tradition...
...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicitly, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in nonfaith, a paradoxical commitment to noncommitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century.PAUL TILLICH 'Scholarship as Ultimate Concern...
...that four years at college fails to stimulate thought on the Big Questions--after-life, the meaning of existence, man's role in the universe. The College, however, does not attempt to answer these Questions; teachers, in Raphael Demos's phrase, may lead students into the wood and leave them to find their own way out. Classroom discussion and reading, plus contact with other faiths, definitely bolster religious questioning. For many Protestants, the result may be temporary agnosticism, but for others it may bring renewed understanding built on a previously existing basis of faith...
Attendance at Sunday morning services does not accurately indicate the extent of religious interest among Harvard Protestants. Only 29 per cent of them attend church weekly, and a mere 20 per cent deemed "active connection" with a denomination essential to religious life. "One can be religious without organized religion," according to one minister...