Brief von Paul Tillich an Edgar Sheffield Brightmanvom 9. Januar 1948

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January 9, 1948

Dear Dr. Brightman:

The reasons for my not being a member of the American Association for a Democratic Germany are:

1) I was during the war the Chairman of the American Committee for a Democratic Germany, consisting of all groups of refugees and sponsored by the American Association. After Potsdam the Committee was split for the same reasons for which the Great Alliance has broken.1 So I decided to resign from the whole action.

2) There is no more Germany, but an American and a Russian colony, and this can be changed only by another war which to avoid was the purpose of my Committee.

3) I have resigned from all politics in order to be able to write my Systematic Theology.

Many thanks!

Cordially yours,

Paul Tillich
Prof. Paul Tillich

1Im Herbst nach der Potsdamer Konferenz, die vom 17. Juli bis zum 2. August 1945 stattfand, führten unüberwindbare Differenzen über das Potsdamer Abkommen zu Austritten und dem faktischen Ende des Council for a Democratic Germany.

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USA, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School Library, Tillich, Paul, 1886–1965. Papers, 1894–1974., bMS 649/126 (36)
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Brief, maschinenschriftlich; Unterschrift eigenhändig; adressiert: „Mr. Edgar Sheffield Brigthman [sic!] , Box 35, Newton Center 59, Massachusetts“; Briefkopf: „UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, BROADWAY AT 120TH STREET, NEW YORK“

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Brief von Paul Tillich an Edgar Sheffield Brightmanvom 9. Januar 1948, in: Paul Tillich, Korrespondenz. Digitale Edition, hg. von Christian Danz und Friedrich Wilhelm Graf. https://tillich-briefe.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/L11119.html, Zugriff am ????.

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