Religion and Culture Cole Lectures - THE COLE LECTURES - The Cole Lectures were endowed by the late E. W. Cole, of Nashville, in 1893, and have been sponsored annually by the Vanderbilt University Divinity School ever since: Dr. Tilich^a's lectures will be the sixty-sixth in the famous series. LODGING. The following are located adjacent to the Vanderbilt campus. For reservations write directly. Allen Hotel, 2004 West End Avenue. Single $6 up; double $3.50 up. Dormitory rooms (4-5 persons per room) $2.50 per person. Coffee shop. Anchor Morel, 1921 West End Avenue. Single $7 up. Family rates. Near Allen Hotel coffee shop. Medical Arts Building, 1211 21st Avenue, South. Double rooms $5 per person; $8 for two. Coffee shop. The Convocation Chairman will assist with special problems of housing, but the Divinity School cannot assume responsibility for reservations. MEALS. The Vanderbilt University cafeteria in Rand Hall will be open to Convocation guests. The food is excellent and the prices are reasonable. A MAP of che Vanderbilt campus showing many of the adjacent hotels, motels, and restaurants is available on request. CONVOCATION OFFICE: Room E, Wesley Hall ALpine 4-5411, extension 572 James D. Glasse, Convocation Chairman

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Spring Convocation  Cole Lectures and Ministers' Convocation  April 6-9, 1959 Vanderbilt University Divinity School  Nashville 5 Tennessee

"Religion & Culture" FOUNDATION LECT: 1959 THE PROGRAM Cole Lectures on "Religion and Culture“ by Dr. Paul Tillich^b Sermons by Dr. J. Wallace Hamilton^c MONDAY, APRIL 6 6:00 p.m. Annual Alumni Banquet. Faculty  Dining Room, Rand Hall. 8:00 p.m. Cole Lecture I: „Man's Spiritual Functions: Their Unity and Their Conflicts." TUESDAY, APRIL 7 10:00 a.m. Worship and Sermon. „We Are the Wrestlers." 11:30 a.m. Cole Lecture II:  "Religion, Art, and Literature." 2:30 p.m. Forum on Preaching. DR. HAMILTON^d, PROFESSOR SLEETH. 4:00 p.m. Coffee Hour. FACULTY AND GUESTS. 8:OO p.m. Cole Lecture III: "Religion, Psychology, and Medicine." WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 10:00 a.m. Worship and Sermon. „The Misery of Being Bored." 11:30 a.m. Cole Lecture IV. "Religion, Science, and Philosophy." 2:30 p.m. Forum on Counseling. DR. HAMILTON^e, PROFESSOR SLEETH. 4:00 p.m. Coffee Hour. FACULTY AND GUESTS. 8:O0 p.m. Cole Lecture V: "Religion, Education, and the University." THURSDAY, APRIL 9 10:00 a.m. Worship and Sermon. "Finding the Word." The Cole Lectures will be delivered in Neely Auditorium. All other Convocation events im Wesley Hall. DR. PAUL TILLICH^f, Cole Lecturer, has been University Professor in Harvard University since 1955. Formerly he was Professor of Philosophical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. His influential writings include the two volumes of his Systematic Theology. His main interests have always been the boundary line between theology and philosophy, religion and culture. DR. J. WALLACE HAMILTON,^g Convocation Preacher, has been minister of the Pasadena Com- munity Church in St. Petersburg, Florida for the past thirty years. He has preached and lectured in colleges, seminaries, churches and conferences throughout America. Of his writings Horns and Halos in Human Nature and Who Goes There? are the latest. He holds the D.D. degree from Florida Southern College.

[3] II. Characteristics of the three functions. p. 199 – 201 p. 134 – 138 p. 143 – 147; 152 – 154a p. 202; p. 155 – 163 p. 186 – 192 p. 206 –

[2] I. The meaning of "spiritual". 1. The loss and salvation of the words spirit and spiritual. The importance of it for the understanding of man as dynamic unity: Spirit: power and meaning 2. The unity of the dimensions of life: Spirit no part, but a quality of the wole being. They participate po- tentially or actually in eachother 3. Man's spiritual functions: Morality, culture, religion. Each has its special character. Morality is the constitutive function, culture the creation of the contents religion the {foundation of} selftranscendence of man's spiritual life (here the transition of s into 9)

Religion and Culture Cole Lectures First Lecture: Man's Spiritual Functions, their Unity and their Conflicts. Intr. Thanks, Joy to be amongst old friends and in the South. _ Intention to relate 4 main functions of man's cultural life to religion. This presupposes a basic and most difficult consideration, demanding patience, because it is largely semantic-descriptive. It requests 1) a definition of spiritual functions. 2) an image of their essential interdependence 3) An {description} indication of their state of conflict and possible reconciliation.

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{II. The unity of the three functions.} {(p. 199|-[...]}

[4] III. The Unity of the spiritual functions. and the threat of their disruption.

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1. The threat against morality: The {lack} desinte- gration of the personal center and the community without a {radical and} transcending center: Desintegration because of some ultimate validity; impulse and aim; but law. 2. The threat against culture: Selfdestructive auto- nomy because of lack of ultimate meaning. The empty space, the empty language, the empty technical pro- duction. 3. The threat against religion: The being put aside into the corner of loneless emotion or fanatical heteronomy.