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Concludes Tillich, "Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself . . . To live serenely and courageously in these tensions and to discover finally their ultimate unity in the depths of our own souls and in the depth of the divine life is the task and the dignity of human thought...
...Harvard's "University Professors" are distinguished scholars commissioned to work "on the frontiers of knowledge" without limitation to any one school or department. Tillich both lectures in the Divinity School and gives a general course, Religion and Culture...
Protestantism will step out of the pulpit and into the street this fall, giving students in "Humanities 127" the chance to see how modern religion relates to various forms of secular culture. University Professor Tillich will give "Religron and Culture," his first course at the College, in Semitic Museum...
Paul Johannes Tillich L.H.D...
...great problems of [Christian] missions toward the Jews today," writes Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich in Christianity & Crisis, "is that we often have the feeling that it is by historical providence that the Jews have an everlasting function in history . . . [This function] would be to criticize, in the power of the prophetic spirit, those tendencies in Christianity which drive toward paganism and idolatry. Judaism always stood against them as a witness and as a critic, and perhaps it is the meaning of historical providence that this shall remain so, as long as there is history. Individual Jews will always come...