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...heartwarmers in the mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report on the latest installment of Tillich's massive work, see RELIGION, The New Being...
...Paul Tillich, 70, University Professor at Harvard,* and now the most discussed Protestant theologian in the U.S., is saying something similar, with an even stronger psychological and existentialist accent. Tillich's word for Original Sin is estrangement-man's estrangement "from the ground of his being, from other beings, and from himself...
Perhaps this was what "life" at Harvard was this year. But we have an inkling of something different. We remember the excitement when Hugh Gaitskell came, and the talk that went on afterwards. We know that Buttrick and Tillich actually said things, as well as attending to their functions. We know that i.e. lived, and passed quietly away, for a reason, not merely because it was a "minor publication" and therefore unfunctional. We know that the visiting professors were doing more than visiting, that professors in general were involved with something more than numbered courses. Something was alive somewhere...
University Professor Paul Tillich's half-course this year, Humanities 127, The Interpretation of History, will be expanded into a full course on religion...
...choose courses and "planned leisure" activities related to it. To get an A.B., students must pass stiff written and oral exams and write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done in special three-hour courses. Though neither professors nor students are entirely satisfied with the program, it at .least...