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Negativism, explained by Hurkan as the culmination of rationalism, is taken up in Paul Tillich's article, Beyond the Dilemma of Our Period, as the major predicament of the middle of the twentieth century. It leaves the autonomous man in the age of science, without spiritual substance. Many individuals in search for a "fountain of meaning" are led toward authoritarianism. Tillich warns against taking preliminary realities as ultimates. He offers instead the Christian's attitude of waiting...
...power of rationalism to destroy, brought out by Hurkan and Tillich, has awakened in the editors grave doubts about intellectual activity and the function of the University. They claim the University has no real commitment "to the demands of the creative act" and that by having no particular point of view, or rather by allowing so many, what is created becomes no more important than what destroys it. Thus i.e. is not merely an attempt to formulate another point of view or to criticize, but an attempt towards an integrated artistic and scientific approach to the "new reality" created...
...Church attendance in the Yard is also up-from 400 two years ago to an average Sunday turn-out of up to 1,000. ¶In 1928, the University of Chicago employed one chaplain. It now has eleven full-time chaplains and 13 part-time workers. When Theologian Paul Tillich arrived to deliver a series of lectures, so many students wanted to attend that Tillich had to move to a hall twice...
...accurate and true in those areas to which it has purposely limited itself." Freud is still studied respectfully, but he no longer monopolizes the conversation. The fashion now, says Nicholas Cardell, director of the University of Chicago's Unitarian Channing Club, "is to talk of Niebuhr or Tillich...
...Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they find when they look at all this for the first time is, I suggest, at least something to think about, and finally something to decide about, one way or another...