Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the mountain and the plain there is a brisk two-way traffic in theologians. Many of them make their camp at some convenient halfway point (although in these trying times a mountain residence is considered more comfortable) -and there are some commuters. But few have dared attempt to bring the mountain and the plain together in a single theological system. Of these, the man who has made the most systematic effort-and, along with Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the most brilliant-is a 66-year-old professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Paul Tillich. In The Theology...
...thrown into the struggle for a better world and they like the Sermon on the Mount best when it is translated into free soup kitchens or psychiatric counseling. High on the mountain above them are their theological archenemies, the "orthodox" and the "neo-orthodox"; clustered around their patriarch, Swiss Theologian Karl Earth, they turn their faces firmly upward and preach the Word in their private language; for them the world is hopelessly evil and Christian social reformers hopelessly naive; not men's actions but belief in God's Word can bring salvation...
Other good Christians, who thought on similar lines about culture and religion, succeeded only in confusing the two. Tillich made no such mistake. He saw Theologian Earth's "neo-orthodoxy" as "a finger warning against becoming completely 'horizontal' (i.e., this-worldly...
...your "Theology of Saucers" [Aug. 18] article: It is well for Father Francis Connell to know that whether flying saucers are real or ionized air bubbles, people on other planets do exist. According to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, theologian and mystic, God created myriads of worlds and they are all peopled. Father Connell has labored mightily, like a 20th century Aquinas, to classify the status of beings from other planets, but actually, as to religion, they fall into no specifically Catholic categories...
...Freud, who attribute most of mankind's mental troubles to the sexual conflicts of infancy, Jung maintains that the religious instinct is as strong as the sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally assigned to the mystic, the theologian and the philosopher, he maintains stoutly that he is a scientist. His methods, in his own view, are as empirical as those of Albert Einstein...