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...That is why the report’s maligned religion requirement was actually the most important. More than simply helping us understand our persistently religious world, it could have become an urgently needed space for rigorous thought about what the late Harvard philosopher and University Professor Paul Tillich called life’s ultimate questions—in short, about veritas...
...burdens King must carry beyond the superhuman pressures and expectations of the movement. King's formidable armor wore down in midlife, draining assurance from his glib mantra as a young scholar that many great men of religion had been obsessed with sex--St. Augustine, St. Paul, Martin Luther, Kierkegaard, Tillich--and his self-reproach spilled over when Coretta underwent surgery for an abdominal tumor on Jan. 24. He disclosed to her the one mistress who meant most to him since 1963--with intensity almost like a second family even though she lived in Los Angeles--a married alumna of Fisk...
Similarly, if one prays for gifts and protections, one must naturally assume that God micromanages the universe for the advantage of particular believers. If, however, one sees prayer as what theologian Paul Tillich called "the great deep sigh," prayer becomes an act of unconscious adoration. Religion becomes more generous and modest. Even the Gospels were written "according to," which was a way of saying...
Pusey resurrected the Divinity School, recruiting prominent academics like former University Professor Paul Tillich and former Dean of the Divinity School Krister Stendhal, while attracting a $1 million donation to the school from John D. Rockefeller. His close confidant, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy, was an active and influential voice on campus...
Eighty-one pages into The Good Book (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence "based on biblical principles [although] not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice." Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group's persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter...