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.
sixty-sixth in the famous series.
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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
Sermons by Dr. J. Wallace
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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 –
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I. The meaning of "spiritual".
1. The loss and salvation of the words
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:
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.}
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III. The Unity of the spiritual functions.
and the threat of their disruption.
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1. The threat against
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
nomy because of lack of ultimate meaning. The empty
space, the empty language, the empty technical pro-
duction.
3. The threat against
the corner of loneless emotion or fanatical heteronomy.
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.