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            <p>I have known <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5092" type="person">Dr. Anita Orienter</rs>
               for more than 20 years and do consider her as an extraordinary gifted
                  <unclear>and</unclear> intelligent personality. She graduated summa cum laude, has
               written an excellent thesis on <q>The <unclear>Evolution</unclear> of Medieval
                  Renaissance Art</q>. Her career <unclear>confirmed</unclear> her promising
               studies. She taught History of Art at several colleges in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__1540" type="place">Brazil</rs> and <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__219" type="place">Italy</rs>, later on she specialized in
               restauration. She has ample experience in both teaching and painting. Her pleasant
               personality <unclear>–</unclear> she has a special talent to deal with children – and
               her great artistic talent will enable her to collaborate wit American institutions of
               higher learning.</p>
            <p>Some weeks ago she has completed a portrait of myself which shows her great artistic
               talent and which has been received with enthusiasm by all my friends. I have seen
               many of her paintings which impressed me very much.</p>
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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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