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                        <lb/><date when="1946-08-20">August 20, 1946</date>
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                    <fw place="top-left" type="adressline"><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Dr. Paul Tillich</rs>
                        <lb/>Box 1419 <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__769" type="place">Easthampton</rs>, Long Island</fw>
                    <salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Dr.
                        Tillich</rs>,</salute></opener>
                <p>On this, your sixtieth birthday, I should like not only to tender my
                    congratulations but more particularly to express my appreciation to you for the
                    impact of your teaching upon so many of us. As witness to this admiration, I
                    mention only that not a few of us, who in some way might qualify as former
                    students, have returned to study under your direction.</p>
                <p>The combination of devotion and hard thought, of freedom and discipline, that is
                    so echoed in your lectures have held many of us, over against the distortions
                    which are so prevalent in American theological orientation through the omission
                    of one or the other of these factors.</p>
                <p>In content, your thinking has welcomed because it is able to relate the Christian
                    faith to the world in which men live without sacrificing the distinctive
                    character of faith or ignoring the relative character of historical events and
                    decisions. Because in a practical <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__684" type="place">America</rs> you have shown the relevance of thought to action, more
                    specifically Christian thought to the decisions of our time, you have made an
                    invaluable contribution to the culture in which we live. </p>
                <p>It is my hope, as it is of many, that the decade in which you are entering will
                    see the publication of your theological thought. You are among the privileged
                    few upon <add place="superlinear">whom</add> the necessity of publication is
                    urged.</p>
                <closer><salute>Respectfully yours,</salute>
                    <signed><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3883" type="person">John Dillenberger</rs>
                        <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3883" type="person">John
                        Dillenberger</rs>. <!-- Unterschrift, dann gedruckt. --></signed></closer>
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