Word: tillichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Tillich's personal secretary during his Harvard years (1955-62), 1 was initially puzzled and somewhat dismayed to learn of the acutely personal revelations in Hannah Tillich's book about life with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...
...argues that Tillich was a man whose "intensity of presence" reached out to all who met him, men or women...
...women, it contained an almost irresistible element of sexual libido. May suggests that the theological groupies around Tillich seemed satisfied merely to share it vicariously or in brief encounters, knowing full well that others would catch his eye and attention...
...describes in detail how Tillich took May's fiancee out walking one afternoon and wove a Tolkien-like fantasy in which she and Paulus became lovers. He cajoled her into pronouncing the ending: "We would lie together." It was only "psychological" seduction, says May, who seems oddly proud of it, as if his fiancee had been honored by "the old custom of the deflowering of the new bride by the lord of the estate...
When Paul Tillich died at 79 after a heart attack, Hannah was with him, holding his hand...