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...function of modern Protestantism is to give men the ultimate basis for criticism of the society which surrounds him, Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, asserted last night...
Speaking to the Social Relations Graduate Colloquium on "Conformism, Protestantism, and the Current Religious Resurgence," Tillich declared that ambiguity in the resurgence was reflected by the "use" of religion "as a tool rather than as a means of understanding...
...Anxiety about the human situation" has produced the religious resurgence since the war, Tillich asserted. Contemporary man is experiencing a shocked awakening to the discovery that principles concerning "meaning of being" have disintegrated...
...dimension of depth" has been lost, as the vertical dimensions of death and eternal life have been removed from human consciousness. In conquering the finite, industrial society has imprisoned modern man in a "prison of finitude," Tillich declared...
...removal of the lower dimension--of death, guilt, emptiness, loneliness--is in the long run impossible, he argued. Existentialism was cited as an attempt to break through the "walls of finitude," and Tillich praised the "honesty" and "courage" of the movement...