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...Tillich may be a great thinker, but human thought does not manufacture God. God is! Theology-totin' Tillich has got the cart before the horse. Prodigal man does not find God by high-flown speculations; God has to grab hold of his straying child. That's why his son came out of heaven, chasing after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Jesuit professor of theology of many years' standing, as is Father Gustave Weigel. May I politely dissociate myself and St. Mary's College from the "sustained brilliance" which Father Weigel sees in the confusion confounded that is Paul Tillich? AUGUSTINE KLAAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Your excellent resume of the giddy theology of Paul Tillich suggests the possibility of his having ridden on the same train with the little girl who, on leaving Virginia, shouted: "Goodbye, God, we're moving to Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Henos Panta! (Greek: All things through One, Christ!). Its foremost tenet has been the principle of chastity, followed by the principles of temperance and non-dueling. To say the least, many of us are perturbed by the "achristian" theological meanderings of our fraternity brother and fellow Lutheran, Tillich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Tillich has been for some of us the cathartic of Protestant traditionalism, providing a much needed theological and ecclesiastical enema. His thought is like the ocean -you can enjoy it from shore, you can cool off your feet, you can wade in and swim, you can jump in the middle and swim, but unfortunately, as the Herr Professor would be the first to agree, if you swallow too much too fast you can drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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