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...Tillich Controversy...
...disturbed by the many uncomplimentary letters concerning Paul Tillich [March 30]. Please be informed that not all Lutherans are so bigoted. Those professors on our faculty who are alert to the problems facing the church today take Tillich with utter seriousness, and welcome his insight and analysis...
...still think that John Herman Randall Jr. gave one of the best descriptions of Paul Tillich's system-an enlarged naturalism which seeks to make room for the concerns of esthetics, religion...
Celsus, Voltaire, Ingersoll, Paine et al. had the honesty to attack Christianity from outside the church. Tillich, Niebuhr, Bultmann and company promulgate their infidelity as "theologians" and "clergymen." Tillich's religious vaporings-a kind of 20th century Gnosticism-would rob Christianity of its Christ, its Bible, its God, its salvation and its sense. Tillich lights matches in the dark instead of opening the windows of his mind to let in the sun of righteousness. The miracle of the church is that it survives both open enemies like Voltaire and Trojan horses like Tillich...
...complicated as Paul Tillich says he is, I'm joining the devil pronto...