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...Barth to Caprew. In the medieval university, theology was queen of the curriculum, a position it lost-except at church-run schools-during the time of the Enlightenment. The new interest in religion on campus stems mostly from the 20th century Christian intellectual revolution that produced Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and the Niebuhr brothers, who proved that theology was relevant in the modern world...
...most theological conferences these days, shoptalk is likely to center on such modern themes as "the death of God," Tillich's "ultimate concern, " Bonhoeffer's "religionless" Christianity. Last week, in the spartan setting of Nashville's tiny Free Will Baptist Bible College, more than 200 Protestant thinkers met for clear, serious and certain discussions about some traditional concepts: grace, sin, faith and, above all, the inerrancy of the Bible...
...Paul Tillich...
...students at Union Theological Seminary who listened in "respectful mystification" to Paul Tillich, I offer a footnote to your excellent article [Oct. 29]. While Niebuhr may well have been the sparkplug in the action leading to Tillich's coming to Union, it could have been only the president of the seminary, the late Henry Sloane Coffin, who offered him the post. Much more interesting is how it was financed. The seminary's income in those days was low, and "Uncle Henry," as we called Dr. Coffin, could not suddenly provide a new faculty salary. The first-year salary...
Died. Paul Tillich, 79, eminent Protestant theologian; following a heart attack; in Chicago (see RELIGION...