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Months later, at the invitation of Reinhold Nicbuhr, he came to New York to join the faculty at Union Theological Seminary...
...difficult, since he arrived in New York at the age of 47 with virtually no knowledge of English. During his first year at Union he took English lessons twice a week from one of his students and wrote his lectures first in German. "The man really went through torture," Nicbuhr says. He recalls that since Tillich's theology is quite abstract, when one student complained that he couldn't understand Tillich's English lectures, another would reassure him: "That's all right. He can't be understood in German either...
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