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...staging folk-rock masses, none of them particularly "radical" in any substantial way. In fact, none of the so-called radical theologians, including Cox himself, has proved either as substantive or as radical as the three humbler men from whom they learned their stuff, Bonhoeffer, Buber and Tillich...
...conceived and designed to test children, not adults. The notion that such a ratio makes for comparison among adults was and is ridiculous. This is clear especially from looking at the capacities of exceptionally intelligent adults: comparing the I.Q.'s of, say, Einstein, Judge Brandeis and the theologian Paul Tillich says nothing at all about the comparative capacities for judgment, good sense, initiative, comprehension, and reasoning of these men. It is well known that some great writers can hardly add two and two, while first-rate mathematicians stumble over spelling and common English...
...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...
...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...