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Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning...
From his aerie in Switzerland, hawk-eyed Karl Barth, 72, Europe's most prestigious Protestant theologian, peers coolly at the Christian West. Last week U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 66, glared right back. In the Christian Century, Niebuhr sharply answered Barth's latest anti-West pronouncement-a 45-page pamphlet addressed to an anonymous pastor in East Germany who had asked for spiritual guidance...
Theologian Niebuhr could not wholly discount Barth's "above-the-battle Christian witness." since "East and West alike are in equal condemnation by the real gospel." Yet the price of this attitude can be "moral irrelevance"-flawed by such asides as Barth's sneer at "praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude...
Minnesota-born President-designate Gill has studied under the Big Four of contemporary Protestant theology: Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (at the Universities of Basel and Zurich, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary). No stranger to parish work, he has also served churches in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and New York City. In his book-cluttered little cubicle in the Christian Century's ancient Chicago office, Editor Gill. 38. last week explained why he had decided to leave journalism for another job: "Part of the reason is my particular distortion of the Calvinistic conscience...
...America, Christianity faces the danger of becoming a utilitarian faith, a faith that is practiced for the sake of getting something here and now," said Yale University's H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good...