Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers George A. Buttrick will preach almost all of the sermons during the term. The only visitors scheduled at present are Paul J. Tillich, University Professor of Christianity; Reinhold Niebuhy, dean of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary; and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam...
Representing the new faculty members, Wilder spoke up for the need to find new religious approaches. He was especially concerned with "the hiatus between theology and the modern world," and spoke of a need to balance theological scholarship with "the equipping of the minister with a dynamic message."
"A constructive solution of this particular issue is the greatest task of the university divinity school," he added. "It will require on the one hand a re-thinking of the assumptions that lie behind scientific and historical studies generally and a more adequate conversation between the different departments of the...
Wilder, a Congregationalist, formerly held the New Testament chair at the Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago.
Tillich, who became University Professor last summer, is on leave this year to fill previous teaching committments in Scotland and the United States. His widely known writings include "The Shaking of the Foundations," "The Courage to Be," and "Systematic Theology." Since 1933 he taught at the Union Theological Seminary at...