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...merit. Gordon Kaufman of the Harvard Divinity School believes that the movement is forcing other thinkers to undertake a long-overdue re-examination of the doctrine of God. And Paul Tillich, whose own writings point to a "God above God" that stands beyond the man-made deity of traditional theism, concedes: "I say yes to this movement insofar as it points to something above the symbolic language concerning God." Tillich also says no to the new theologians on the ground that they are abandoning all symbolic language about...
...conscientious objector). Associate Justice Tom Clark argued for the court that Congress did not intend the act to apply only to orthodox members of organized churches. He cited Protestant Theologian Tillich, "whose views the Government concedes would come within the statute." Tillich firmly rejects the God of traditional theism in favor of a "God above God" who is the "ground of all being" and the source of man's "ultimate concern." Bishop Robinson likewise rejects the traditional notion of a God "out there" who exists "above and beyond the world he made...
...true self. "The importance of being a Christian is that we can stand the insight that it is of no importance." says Tillich; the religious man can "fearlessly look at the vanity of religion." Tillich can rejoice with Nietzsche that "God is dead"-the God of theism-and write of looking beyond him to "the God above...
Some Humanists are agnostics; others, like myself, are atheists. But this tells as little about Humanim as would be learned about Christianity merely from the information that Christians are theists. As Christianity comprises far more than theism, so Humanism, although based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...
Democracy differs from Communism, Williams said, in that it does not claim to be supreme in people's lives. "Let us not continue the trend toward a democratic theism," he stated...