Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"A Unified Meaning." Traditionally, the U.S. has imported new theological thought from Europe. Tillich's thought is now moving the other way. His books are rapidly being translated into German (he is too busy to do the job himself) as well as French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Fellow theologians...
In the little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs...
Impressed by some of Tillich's writings on Religious Socialism, socialistic-minded Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary had offered him a post at Union, but Tillich hesitated. He called on the Minister of Education in Berlin. "For a full hour," remembers Tillich, "we discussed the...
In the U.S. his appearance under the sponsorship of the scholarly Reinhold Niebuhr earned Tillich considerable attention both in and out of the classroom-even though his formidable German accent and even more formidable concepts left hearers with an impression which U.S. Theologian Walter M. Horton has described as "respectful...
More sharp words flared last week from Karl Barth's son, Dr. Marcus Barth, 43, of the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God...