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...German fraternity Wingolf, meaning "hall of friends," was a Christian fraternity of university students. Its motto to this day is Di Henos Panta! (Greek: All things through One, Christ!). Its foremost tenet has been the principle of chastity, followed by the principles of temperance and non-dueling. To say the least, many of us are perturbed by the "achristian" theological meanderings of our fraternity brother and fellow Lutheran, Tillich...
First Chargé, Wingolf University of Erlangen (1935-36) Zion American Lutheran Church Eureka...
Faith & Doubt. Tillich's views of that drama were decisively shaped by Wingolf, a national fraternity of university stu dents, dedicated to combat with Christian principles the paganism of German fraternity life, which was built around the cult of dueling and the cult of getting drunk...
...Wingolf was highly authoritarian in structure; absolute rulers of each chapter were three chargés, and when Tillich became the First Chargé of Wingolf at the University of Halle, he says, "it was, and is, the proudest achievement of my life." But despite authoritarianism, discussion was absolutely free, and it was there ("in the dinner and drinking sessions") that Tillich began to hammer out the problems that later were to become his life work...
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