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...objectification" principle of the Renaissance, Tillich said, has been changed into the belief that God and man are "things," while the traditional principle of "coincidence" has been transformed into the notion of "endless finitude...
HAMILTON, N.Y.., Dec. 8--Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, said last night that the religious substance which led to the death of the principles of Renaissance culture has "evaporated" from our society...
...such unrestricted chairs as he envisaged have been donated. The newest chair, the Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards
Dali's "Last Supper," which is presently hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, depicted Jesus as "a sentimental but very good athlete on an American baseball team," according to Tillich. He concluded, "The technique is a beautifying naturalism of the worst kind. I am horrified...
...Weekly News Magazine reported that Dali had misunderstood Tillich's comment about the painting being junk and quoted the artist, saying in rebuttal, "I have been drinking mineral water exclusively for more than ten years...