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                    <name key="https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1606-0460">Cem Ölmez</name>
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                        1933–1951</title>
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                <opener><dateline>143 East Adams avenue, <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__1045" type="place">Kirkwood</rs>, 22, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__798" type="place">Missouri</rs>, <lb/><date when="1946-08-20">August 20,
                            1946</date>
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                    <salute>My dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Dr.
                            Tillich</rs>:</salute>
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                <p>Some of your former students have written to me to inform me that today is your
                    birthday. While I have never had the privilege of studying under you directly, I
                    am more than happy to be able to add my felicitations to theirs on this
                    occasion.</p>
                <p>Indeed, I take it as a very fine compliment that the nature of my writings is
                    such that I am classified with those who have sat at your feet. As a matter of
                    fact, your influence upon my thinking and writing has been very pronounced – –
                    both through your books and articles, and through <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1390" type="person">Niebuhr</rs> and <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3918" type="person">Clifford Stanley</rs>.</p>
                <p>When I was a student at the General Theological Seminary some ten or more years
                    ago, I had the assignment to read a paper on the nature of the Church at an
                    inter-seminary gathering at Union, with <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1464" type="person">Pauck</rs> presiding and with you as discussion leader. That
                    was my first direct contact with you. It was rather an awesome occasion for a
                    young seminarian, no matter how brash he might be.</p>
                <p>With these words of explanation, may I once more join with those who have studied
                    directly under you, and express my wishes for many very happy returns of this
                    day. I look forward to learning much more from your continued leadership in the
                    field of relevant Christianity.</p>
                <closer><salute>Very sincerely</salute>
                    <signed><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3883" type="person">Charles D.
                        Kean</rs></signed>
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                  <occupation>US-amerikanischer Theologe</occupation>
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                     <p>Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold (21.6.1892 Wright City, Missouri – 1.6.1971 Stockbridge, Massachusetts) war ein US-amerikanischer evangelischer Theologe, Philosoph und Politikwissenschaftler. Er stammte aus einer deutschen Einwandererfamilie, studierte an der Yale Divinity School, wurde 1915 ordiniert und war bis 1928 Pfarrer in Detroit. Von 1928 bis 1960 lehrte er Religionsphilosophie am Union Theological Seminary in New York. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schriften, hielt 1939 die Gifford Lectures und erhielt mehrere Ehrendoktorate. 1931 heiratete er Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton.</p>
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                     <date>1886-08-20</date>
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                        <placeName>Starzeddel, Niederschlesien (heute Polen)</placeName>
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                     <date>1965-10-22</date>
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                        <placeName>Chicago, Illinois, USA</placeName>
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                  <occupation>Theologe, Religionsphilosoph und Pfarrer</occupation>
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                     <p>Paul Tillich (20. August 1886 – 22. Oktober 1965) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Religionsphilosoph. Nach seiner Tätigkeit als Feldprediger im Ersten Weltkrieg lehrte er an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschland, bis er 1933 emigrieren musste und in den USA wirkte, unter anderem in New York, Harvard und Chicago. Tillich entwickelte eine Theologie der Kultur und verstand Religion als das „was uns unbedingt angeht“. In seiner „Systematic Theology“ formulierte er die Methode der Korrelation und deutete Gott als „Macht des Seins“. Seine Arbeiten verbinden Theologie, Philosophie und Existenzdenken und hatten großen Einfluss auf das religiöse Denken der Moderne.</p>
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