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Prominent religious thinkers, like Paul Tillich and Robert Mcaffee Brown, are usually invited to give the lectures. McCarthy, a Roman Catholic, is one of the few laymen ever invited...
Students cannot major in religion and must take the subject as an elective-but the courses are highly popular nonetheless. The Stanford emphasis is strongly contemporary. Brown teaches one course on modern theology on the work of Barth, Tillich, Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr, another on Christian ethics that ranges from sexual problems-to political responsibility. Novak traces the development of 20th century Catholic theology and literature, has gained his greatest student following with a course that explores the practical consequences of commitments to faith and atheism...
...credit from Virginia Theological Seminary and ten points from Yale Law School. At Union, he took eight hours of work at General Theological Seminary, which Union also accepted. Contrary to your report, he took most of his work in the basic theological disciplines. He worked under both Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, and I remember his brilliant work in a seminar in Christian Ethics. The book was offered as a thesis and was allowed only two credits. JOHN C. BENNETT President...
Dean Pike became something of an official gadfly and unofficial spokesman for the Episcopal Church. Theologically, even though he had read Tillich and Niebuhr, Pike then was what he calls "smoothly orthodox. I was still a lawyer. I had just changed clients. I was an apologist. My feeling was that you've got to make the church's institution look good." On nondoctrinal controversy, however, he was an unapologetic independent. From the pulpit or on his nationwide Dean Pike TV show, he tangled with Cardinal Spellman on movie
...instead of being a meaningful mystery. But not many churchmen are prepared to toss it overboard entirely. The Rev. Lester Kinsolving, an Episcopal priest in California and a young follower of Pike's, finds that "it's logical to me-I say water, steam and ice." Paul Tillich argued that the three-in-one concept was not a quantitative definition of God but a qualitative expression of the processes of divine life...