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Interested Cornell students will be able to prepare for a series of lectures by University Professor Paul J. Tillich with two six-week, non-credit courses on his works, the Cornell Daily Sun announced recently...
...doctrine of immortality of the soul, although the subject of the Ingersoll lectureship, is only one of the six ways the eternal life can be considered, Tillich emphasized. Through it the individual is preserved in his union with the eternal...
...secularized Protestantism, the "classic doctrine" of immortality has been re-placed by a popular superstition, stated Tillich. Instead of eternal life, there is the concept of an endless temporal life beyond death with a desire "to continue activities, refusing to accept the seriousness of death...
...resurrection of the body and the Kingdom of God are the two final symbols of eternal life. In discussing the first of these, Tillich emphasized its anti-dualistic bias, stating the meaningfulness of the total personality. The spirit and the body are "not two parts but the condition of the whole person." The Kingdom of God, which is accepted by the Western world, is the "universal fulfillment of everything that has being," he said...
...future history of religions will be in the encounter of Nirvana and the Kingdom of God," concluded Tillich. In these symbols are all final questions of the experience of human existence...