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Professor Paul Tillich came to the U.S. in 1933 and gave up building sand castles. But he has succeeded in erecting a towering structure of thought from which he currently commands the littoral of theology. The concepts which are his raw material may be as hard to grasp and hold as a handful of dry sand, but the edifice he has built with them is densely packed and neatly shaped against the erosion of intellectual wind and wave...
Though Harvard's University Professor* Paul Tillich is a rarefied philosopher and theologian, speaking and writing in a language he had to learn at the age of 47, in a country noted for its impatience with theology, he has come to be regarded by the U.S. as its foremost Protestant thinker. And though his working vocabulary is viscous with such terms as ontology, theonomy, numenous and the Gestalt of Grace, he is now devoting most of his time to teaching any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate who signs up for his highly popular courses...
Harvard's religious revival is climaxed by a visit from Billy Graham and a band of the faithful. An overflow audience in Sanders Theatre responds jubilantly to the message. Three hundred undergraduates, including the entire cast of Drumbeats and Song, which was caught during rehearsal, are converted. Paul Tillich stalks out of the meeting, saying that he is not grasped by ultimate concern. No one is quite sure of what he meant to say. Nathan P. sends the money back to the Times, commenting that he is sure there must have been a mistake...
...political and social realms, man was reduced to a "working power," and rediscovered as the self in "anxiety, guilt, and despair," Tillich said. One outgrowth of this rediscovery was expressionist art, which "showed the world in its demonic character...
Following Tillich's remarks, Robert N. Bellah '48, lecturer on Social Relations and on World Religions, agreed that the past century has seen a modern major cultural crisis, citing as evidence a basic questioning of values with overtones of nihilism...