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...attempt to bring the mountain and the plain together in a single theological system. Of these, the man who has made the most systematic effort-and, along with Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the most brilliant-is a 66-year-old professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Paul Tillich. In The Theology of Paul Tillich (Macmillan; $5.50), edited by Professors Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall, a group of well-known philosophers and theologians*has given detailed and awed recognition of Tillich's success...
Barth's Finger. "I was thinking about infinity," says Paul Tillich, "at the age of eight." Until his 305 Tillich performed his thinking along orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
...Tillich-by then a philosophy professor at the University of Berlin-helped start a short-lived Christian socialist movement: an attempt at a "reunion of religion and secular culture." The effort failed, but in planning it Tillich laid the cornerstone of his later philosophy: "Religion is the substance of culture, and culture the form of religion...
Other good Christians, who thought on similar lines about culture and religion, succeeded only in confusing the two. Tillich made no such mistake. He saw Theologian Earth's "neo-orthodoxy" as "a finger warning against becoming completely 'horizontal' (i.e., this-worldly...
...once dominant and self-confident liberalism speaks a different language today. Horton and Van Dusen, Tillich and Niebuhr, Fosdick and Morrison-it scarcely makes a difference to whom you turn. All speak in the same apologetic strain, even though a few try to cover their retreat...