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...Methodological--general in that it examines the basic tools of a discipline. Such a course would explain the method for understanding the content of a field rather than the content of a field itself (for example, Hum 6) or would compare methodologies (e.g. Paul Tillich's course in philosophy and religion...
Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing sent the biggest, a 22-in. by 35-in. reproduction of a portrait of Pope John XXIII by Paris' Bernard Buffet; Theologian Paul Tillich the longest, a two-page personal letter. Postmaster General John Gronouski got his 2,000 cards out early, remembered to zip-code each and every one. Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, who had bucked voter opinion to back Johnson, discovered too late that the etching of the Governor's mansion had been tampered with-the name Goldwater was scratched in amongst branches of an overhanging tree...
...spirit of Christian responsibility that is transforming many suburban churches, both old neo-Gothic and new fish-shaped. One sign is the number of Christians who form study groups to read the Bible and such avant-garde works as Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God and Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. And taking Christianity seriously often leads to grappling with contemporary social problems-most notably, the other catalytic issue, civil rights...
...Marburg Disciples of Germany's Rudolf Bultmann that Christianity must de-mythologize-that is, translate the essential elements of the New Testament proclamation into terms that relate to man's existential conflict today, while doing away with nonessentials as so much historical ballast. Advocates of Paul Tillich's method of correlation, which attempts to find theological answers in the Christian message to the existential questions posed by modern philosophy, are content to ignore dogmas that do not relate to contemporary man's ultimate concern...
...travel light are in the seminaries. Two of the most persuasive are consecrated bishops of the Anglican faith: John Robinson, the suffragan of Woolwich, and James A. Pike of San Francisco. In his bestselling (750,000 copies) Honest to God, Robinson proposed, among other near heresies, that Christianity substitute Tillich's concept of God as "the ground of all being" for the old notion of a transcendent personal deity "out there." In subsequent writings, Robinson has carried on his theological demolition work in other areas. Christian Morals Today argues for a flexible ethic in which the only commitment...