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...Samuel H. Miller, Lecturer on Pastoral Theology and Minister at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, will head the mental health program at Harvard. Among the theologians, ministers, psychiatrists and others who are expected to help supervise the project are the Rev. Paul J. Tillich, University Professor and world-renowned theologian; Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University's health services; Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology; and the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Memorial Hall preacher...
...sweet and pretty religious pictures that are all too common in church papers, church meeting rooms and ministers' offices, says Tillich, are "dangerously irreligious, and they are something against which everybody who understands the situation of our time has to fight." Against them he puts paintings that attempt to thrust the viewer face to face with reality, 16th century Matthias Grünewald's famed Crucifixion on the Isenheim altar ("I believe it is the greatest German picture ever painted"). Modern existentialism in art, he says, begins with Cézanne and penetrates to "the depths of reality...
...capture reality is what modern artists, good and bad, are trying to do, says Tillich, and that is why Hitler, representing the fear of reality of the petty bourgeoisie, suppressed modern art. "The churches followed in most cases the petty bourgeoisie resistance against modern art and against existentialism generally. The churches believed they had all the answers. But in believing they had all the answers, they deprived the answers of their meaning. These answers were no longer understood because the questions were no longer understood, and this was the churches' fault ... I believe that existentialist art has a tremendous...
...Tillich concludes, there is really no such thing as Christian existentialism. Christians who question life in existentialist terms answer as Christians. "For this reason, I do not believe that the ordinary distinction between atheistic and theistic existentialism makes any sense. As long as an existentialist is theistic, he is either not existentialist or he is not really theistic...
Even so, the existential attitude is normative for modern Protestantism. "Existentialism describes the human situation," says Tillich, "and as such it is a decisive element in present-day religious thinking and Christian theology...