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[4] XIII. PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY in ANCIENT GREECE & the RENAISSANCE. (1954, Spring, UTS) ''Pre-Socratic thinkers and their relation to myth and science. Philosophical theology inh,i and j. The question of human existence in Stoicism and Epicureanism. Reception and transformation of ancient phil- osophy and new motifs in the philosophy of the Renaissance.'' --Two lectures each week. (S) XIV. PROTESTANTISM and CULTURE. ( 1954, Spring, CU) --Two lectures each week. (See description for Entry II.) (S) XV. RELIGION and CULTURE in the PROTESTANT VIEW. (1954, Summer, CU) --Five lectures each week (3 weeks). (Ibid. XVI. The THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM in the LIGHT of the EXISTENTIALIST ANALYSES. --Five lectures each week (3 weeks). (S) (1954, Summer, CU) LECTURES at HARVARD UNIVERSITY XVII. The TYPES of LOVE. (1955-56, Fall & Spring, HU) --Philia; Eros; Agape; Eros vs. Agape. Love as libido. Love and power. Love and Freedom. Love and justice. God's love for man ... --Two seminars each month; for graduate students and faculty. (ST) XVIII. GERMAN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY. (1955, Fall, HU) ''The post-Kantian development of German philosophical thought fromaa to ab, and the late period of ac. Elabora- tion of the motifs which drove these philosophers beyond ae, the basic influences determining their thought, their constructive attempts, the tensions and conflicts within their systems, and the criticism of their ideas by pioneers of recent philosophical move- ments.'' --Two lectures each week. (ST) XIX. RELIGION and CULTURE. (1955-56, Fall & Spring, HU) ''Consideration of the relation of religion generally and Protestantism particularly to human culture and to different expressions, predominantly in the Western world.'' --Two lectures each week. (S)

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[5] XX. EXISTENCE and the CHRIST. (1955, Fall, HU) (See Entry III.) --Two lectures each week. (ST) XXI. LIFE and the SPIRIT. (1956, Spring, HU) (Ibid.) --Two lectures each week. (S) XXII. GERMAN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY. (1956, Fall, HU) (See Entry XVIII.) --Two lectures each week. (S) XXIII. CHRISTIAN MYSTICS in CHURCH HISTORY. (1956-57, Fall, HU) & Spring "The transformation of mysticism generally into Christian thought and life, from am to an. The question of the place of mysticism in Christianity will be in the center of the discussion." --Two 2-hour seminars each month, through the year. VISITING LECTURERS: ao(Catholic mysticism). ap, Univ. of Jerusalem (Jewish mysticism). aq, HU (Eastern Orthodox icon mysticism); ar, CU (Buddhist mysticism; remarks on God and Godhead, Eckhardt; visited this course in 1952--see above, Entry IV). Other seminar topics: as; at, Zinzendorf, Ritschl; Von Hügel, Simone Weil; St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila; Meister Eckhardt; Bona- ventura; et al. XXIV. The METHOD OF THEOLOGY and our KNOWLEDGE of God. 1956-57, Fall & Spring, HU) "The nature and method of systematic theology and the problem of reason and revelation. The nature of our knowledge of God and the basic structure of the doctrine of God." --Two lectures each week, through the year.--This course examines in detail the published text, Systematic Theology, Vol. I, elaborates many of its arguments, modifies some, corrects errors, and supplies numerous concrete examples to illustrate and clarify the more abstract material. Regular student reports on sec- tions of the text, with questions, discussions, etc. (See Entry VIII, above. (S) XXV. The INTERPRETATION of HISTORY. (1957, Spring, HU) "The relation of history to nature and man, its structure and determining factors; the question of historical time and the different answers as they appear in the principle cultures and religions. The interpretation of history in modern indus- trial civilization under Jewish, Christian, and Humanist influence. --Two lectures each week. (ST)

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[6] XXVI. GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM. (1957, Fall, HU) --Presentation and discussion of proposed topics for doctoral dissertations (Ph.D., Th.D.) --Subjects: 1] aw concept of Anfechtung. 2] The symbolic theory of religious language. 3] The Christian message and the moral imperative. 4] Revelation and the religions--the Christian claim to finality. 5] ay and the Platonists of the Renaissance. 6] bb doctrine of the Church (contra bc). 7] The problem of the historical Jesus, with reference to bd. 8] The relation of conscience to Providence in be: critical evaluation of the methodology of Catholic moral theology. --Two evenings each month; spring semester not recorded. (T) XXVII. LIFE and the SPIRIT. (1957, Fall, HU ) "The nature and the ambiguities of life generally and man's spiritual life especially; the divine Spirit and its creativity in personality and community as the answer to the questions implied in life's ambiguities." --Two lectures each week; spring semester not recorded. (ST) XXVIII. RELIGION, the ARTS, and the SCIENCES. (1957, Fall, HU) "The relation of religion to the arts and sciences, with special reference to their contemporary situation. --Two lectures each week. (ST) XXIX. RELIGION and SOCIETY. (1958, Spring, HU) "The relation of religion to social, legal, educational, and political problems, with special reference to the present historical situation." --Two lectures each week. Sequel to the previous course. (T) XXX. The INTERPRETATION of HISTORY. (1958, Fall, HU) (See Entry XXV.) --Two lectures each week. (S) XXXI. RELIGION and SOCIETY. (1960, Spring, HU) (See Entry XXIX.) --Two lectures each week. (S)

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[7] XXXII. LIFE and the SPIRIT. (1960, Spring, HU) (See Entry III.) --Two lectures each week. Incomplete; ten lectures recorded. (S) XXXIII. GERMAN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY. (1960, Fall, HU) (See Entry XVIII.) --Two lectures each week. (T) XXXIV. GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM. (1961, Fall, HU) (See Entry XXVI.) Subjects: 1] Religious Socialism as an ideology: a study of the "Kairos"-- Circle in Germany between 1919 and 1933. (Recorded from spring semester, 1960.) 2] Man and nature. 3] Religious symbolism. 4] Finitude and existence. 5] Man and technical society. 6] The Christology of bo. 7] What makes systematic theology possible? 8] bq theological and philosophical antecedents and contemporaries. --Two evenings each month. (T) XXXV. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. (1962, Spring, HU) "The course will present a possible philosophical approach to the phenomenon of religion. It will deal with the relation of religion to morality and culture, and with the nature of religious truth. The categories of religious experience (i.e., faith and unbelief, the holy and the secular, the divine and the demonic) and the forms of religious expression (i.e., symbol, myth, cult, religious art, theology, canon law) will be dis- cussed. Finally, attention will be given to the question of a normative concept of religion." --Two lectures each week. (T) XXXVI. The SELF-INTERPRETATION of MAN in WESTERN THOUGHT: EARLY GREEK CULTURE. (1960, Fall, HU) "Self-interpretation and world explanation. Philosophical principles and artistic styles. The archaic character of early thought. Cultural criticism and the turn to the self. Socrates. Plato's image of man. The classical and the tragic in sculpture and drama. Aristotle. Man and Polis in classical Greece." --Two lectures each week. (T)

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[8] XXXVII. The SELF-INTERPRETATION of MAN in WESTERN THOUGHT: LATE ANCIENT CULTURE. (1961, Spring, HU) "Critical naturalism in art and philosophy. Sceptics and hermits. The liberation from fear and the gardens of Epicurus. Stoic self-interpretation of man. Stoicism and Roman law. Expulsion and return of religion. Archaistic revival in the arts. Byzantine mosaics." --Two lectures each week. (T) XXXVIII. The SELF-INTERPRETATION of MAN in WESTERN THOUGHT: RENAISSANCE. CULTURE. (1961, Fall, HU) "The religious self-interpretation of the Italian Renascimento. The renewal and transformation of the ancient traditions in the arts and in philosophy. The victory of the scientific over the magic relation of man to nature. Nicolaus Cusanus. Man as individual and as microcosm. The tragic underground of Renaissance humanism: Michelangelo. The "modern mind:" Empiricism & utopianism." --Two lectures each week. (T) XXXIX. The SELF-INTERPRETATION of MAN in WESTERN THOUGHT: MODERN CULTURE (1962, Spring, HU) "Modern industrial society and its "enlightened" self- interpretation. The principle of "harmony." The classical- romantic protest. Critical naturalism in the arts. The existentialist revolt. The existentialist style of thought and expression in the 20th century. The rediscovery of the unconscious and the change in the self-interpretation of man." --Two lectures each week. (T)


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