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                <opener><dateline>Box #310<lb/>Tokyo Foreign Missions<lb/>APO #500, <rs type="place" ref="#tillich_place_id__768">San Francisco</rs><lb/><date when="1950-02-28">February 28, 1950</date></dateline><salute>Dear <rs type="person" ref="#tillich_person_id__1928">Dr. Tillich</rs>:</salute>
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                <p>To bother you many times and about the same matter is certainly not my wish. But
                    it is necessary to write once again in regard to permission, should you be
                    willing to grant it, for translating your work.</p>
                <p>In a letter of a year or more ago<note type="ea">Liegt nicht vor, vgl. jedoch <rs type="letter" ref="#L11229">Brief von Secretary of Paul Tillich an Henry
                            Holt &amp; Co vom 24. September 1948</rs>.</note> you very graciously
                    wrote that you would be glad to grant to the <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5369" type="person">Rev. David Goto</rs> permission to translate <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__JAKRCEZL">The Religious Situation</rs></q>,
                    and in the same letter you mentioned <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__QQJUHUZE">The Protestant Era</rs></q> as being included in the permission.<note type="ea">Der erwähnte Brief liegt nicht vor.</note></p>
                <p>It was my feeling and interpretation of your letter that you would be glad to
                    have <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5369" type="person">Goto</rs> translate any of
                    your work. But in as much as <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__4CS7I922">The
                            Shaking of The Foundations</rs></q> was not mentioned specifically in
                    the letter, he does not feel that he has a right to go ahead.</p>
                <p>If you are willing that he should, please send me a note, granting him this
                        permission.<note type="ea">Die japanische Übersetzung erschien 1951, vgl.
                            <rs type="person" ref="#tillich_person_id__1928">Paul Tillich</rs>: <rs type="work" ref="#tillich__UX6GWE72">地の基ふるいうごく</rs> (1951).</note></p>
                <p>His translation of <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__JAKRCEZL">The Religious
                            Situation</rs></q> will be off the presses before very long I
                        understand.<note type="ea">Die japanische Übersetzung von <q>Die religiöse
                            Lage der Gegenwart</q> erschien 1950, vgl. <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Paul Tillich</rs>: <foreign xml:lang="jap"><rs ref="#tillich__WB479NQU" type="work">現代の宗教的状況:
                                現代欧洲文化の宗教性</rs></foreign> (1950).</note> He is now reading the
                            <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__4CS7I922">Shaking of the
                            Foundations</rs></q> and is intensely interested and wants to go to work
                    on it. It seems likely that <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__QQJUHUZE">The
                            Protestant Era</rs></q> will be given later attention.<note type="ea">Eine japanische Übersetzung von <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__QQJUHUZE">The Protestant Era</rs></q> konnte nicht ermittelt werden.</note> I
                    agree that it would be better to introduce the volume of sermons first. He has
                    been asked to write an article on this for one of Christian journals which he
                    says he is about to do.</p>
                <p>I am concerned that Goto may go to the States for further study, preferably at
                    Union, and I trust he may take a good part of his work under you.</p>
                <p>I hope you may have your secretary reply to us soon in regard to <q><rs type="work" ref="#tillich__4CS7I922">The Shaking of the
                        Foundations</rs></q>. And we can get in touch with the publisher right away,
                    if you are willing.</p>
                <closer><salute>With appreciation for the many times you have written; and most
                        cordial regards;</salute><signed><hi rend="hand">Sincerely<lb/><rs type="person" ref="#tillich_person_id__5368">Richard A
                            Merritt</rs></hi></signed>
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                     <date>1965-10-22</date>
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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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