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            <opener><dateline><date when="1949-03-01">Jan. 3, 1949</date></dateline><lb/><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Prof. Paul Tillich, Ph.
               D.</rs><lb/>Union Theological Seminary<lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">New York City, New York</rs>
               <salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Prof.
                  Tillich</rs>:</salute>
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            <p>The <hi rend="underline">Seminarian</hi>, the official publication of Concordia
               Seminary here in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__734" type="place">St. Louis</rs>, is
               planning an issue on philosophy and theology. We have been following the policy of
               selecting a general topic for each issue and then having writers present us with
               articles dealing with different aspects of the problem. Foreexample, coming issues
               will deal with such subjects as <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1228" type="person">Luther</rs>, ethics, man, art, history. The ethics issue e. g., will contain two
               articles giving the theological bases of ethics by <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1502" type="person">Prof. Piper</rs> of <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__630" type="place">Princeton</rs> and <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5440" type="person">Prof.
                  Rasmussen</rs> of <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__1786" type="place">Gettysburg</rs>
               and a number more relating ethics to politics, economics, medicine, youth, etc.</p>
            <p>In the philosophy issue we are particulary interested in the problem of the
               relationships between the Thomist and the Augustinian systems (omitting because of
               relative unimportance what might be called the Democritan or atomistic), examining
               their criticisms of each other and the validity of their criticisms, and in a
               systematic rather than a historical way treating of the possibility of each; in
               problems of interpretation, such as the historical fluctuations between grammatical,
               rhetorical, and dialectical hermeneutics, systematically in the possibility of a
               complete hermeneutics which would do justice to all three of the structures of
               language, of such problems as those of meaning, presuppositions, validation, and
               semantics. We would also like to have something on the religious symbol, but because
               the thinking on this problem in our church has been practically non-existent and
               because even among our younger scholars who have been studying at the major
               universities and theological schools in the country there is no one, as far as I
               know, who can even begin to deal with this problem. We would like to open up thinking
               on this problem. I have come to you for help. We would, of course, prefer to have you
               write for us and would be highly honored and flattered if you would do so, and I
               would like to extend the request to you. However, I should not like to presume on
               your time, since I know that you receive an enormous amount of requests and are
               burdened with teaching and with writing which you would probably feel is much more
               important. Therefore, I would like to request that, if you cannot write for us, you
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               <del rend="s">to</del> suggest someone or several persons who could in your opinion
               open up the field of the <hi rend="underline">religious symbols</hi> to our
               seminarians, our pastors, and our theologians. This might be a professor at Union or
               at another school or perhaps a student who is specializing in this field.</p>
            <p>Our articles run between 1100 and 3400 words. Perhaps 2300 would be a good length.
            April 1 would be the deadline. I hope that you will find it within your desires to help
            us in this matter.</p>
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               <salute>Sincerely yours,</salute>
               <signed><hi rend="hand"><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5439" type="person">Don Meyer</rs></hi><lb/>editor, <hi rend="underline">Seminarian</hi></signed>
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