Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Since in all the various areas of learning--sociology, psychology, the sciences, history, philosophy, even business administration--ultimate question about existence are involved, these studies represent practical actualizations of a vast and embracing spiritual realm. In the Tillichian transcendental realm there can be no divorce of preaching and pedagogy; each discipline is a partial manifestation of the Meaning of Being...
...Harvard Square minister characterized student belief as "a general drift of thinking in all, but including a great deal of individual variation." Certainly most Protestants do not exhibit orthodoxy in their religious thinking--they are not afraid to question their beliefs and to abandon many that seem untenable in the face of the rationalism and intellectualism of the College community...
...most common is the emphasis upon the irrational, elemental parts of Protestant worship as parts of group psychology. Many Harvard Square ministers call this the "Soc. Rel." approach to religion--students will become interested in Protestantism as an illustration of father images, sublimation, or mass delusion. One can question, however, whether such a study of religion ever explains satisfactorily the continuance of religion in a rational community...
...case in point was the question, "I regard active connection with a synagogue as essential to my religious life." Many of those who replied in the affirmative were among the least frequent participants in synagogue activities. Significantly, the Orthodox Jews, whose religion is woven inextricably with daily life, indicated less than 15 per cent affirmative. Among Conservative Jews over 20 per cent regarded synagogue connection as essential, while Reform Jews showed the highest number affirmative, 30 per cent...