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...more under 50. Crop-headed Jerry Brauer, who looks more like a football coach than a theologian, intends to make teamwork the watchword among his young faculty. "The age of theological geniuses is past for a while," says the Rev. Dr. Brauer. "People like Niebuhr and Tillich do not appear in every generation, and no longer is any theological school going to have its predominance through giant men who tower over the others . . . There may be another Reinie Niebuhr hiding under a barrel somewhere, but I doubt...
...Puritanism, on which he is currently writing two books. A Midwesterner (from Fond du Lac, Wis.), Brauer studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis, took his Ph.D. in church history at F.T.F.. then spent two years at Union Theological teaching and serving as assistant to Theologian Paul Tillich. Puritan Expert Brauer sees a new kind of theological liberalism emerging at F.T.F. "It still asserts the creativeness and potentiality of the human spirit." he says, "but it is also much more aware of the limitations of the human spirit-for example, it takes sin seriously...
While teaching, Tillich will continue work on his book "systematic Theology II." He gave the substance of the volume for the Gifford Lectures in Scotland last fall while on leave from the University. It will be ready for publication within three years, Williams said...
...Tillich was in Cambridge this past weekend to meet theologians from the University and neighboring schools. He discussed the role of theology in the University with such men as Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, John P. Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...
...present Tillich is finishing teaching committments in Union Seminary at Columbia University...