Preface I (Nr. 0002)

Tillich Lectures


1955-56
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
HUMANITIES 127
RELIGION AND CULTURE

Select and discuss three of the following problems:

  • 1. Faith and belief.
  • 2. Ultimate concern and other concerns.
  • 3. Faith and reason.
  • 4. The nature of religious symbols.
  • 5. Language and symbols.
  • 6. The religious meaning of the technical realm.
  • 7. Meaning of technical creativity for the understanding of man's
  • nature. 8. The conflict of religion and science since the Renaissance.
  • 9. Science and faith today.
  • 10. Is there significance of modern physics for theology?
  • 11. Religion and historical research. (Relationship of faith and history)
  • 12. Religious elements in the main philosophical approaches of our time.
  • 13. The idea of a Christian philosophy.
  • 14. Anthropology and the doctrine of man.
  • 15. The mind-body problem and the psychology of the unconscious.
  • 16. Religious and medical healing.

Mid-year. January, 1956.