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NAPTS Bulletin.36.3 Bulletin The North American Paul Tillich Society Volume XXXVI, Number 3 Summer 2010 Editor: Frederick J. Parrella, Secretary-Treasurer Religious Studies Department Santa Clara University Kenna Hall, Suite 300, Room H, Santa Clara, California 95053 Associate Editor: Jonathan Rothchild Telephone: 408.554.4714/ 4547 FAX: 408.554.2387 Email: [email protected] Website: www.NAPTS.org Webmeister: Michael Burch _________________________________________________________________________ Special Issue: Memorial Tributes to Jane B. Owen and John E. Smith In this issue: News about the Annual Meeting in Atlanta Dues Are Payable for 2010 In Memoriam: Tributes to Jane Blaffer Owen by William R. Crout and Marion H. Pauck Tributes to John E. Smith by Marion Pauck and Durwood Foster Roy Enquist Remembered Review of Richard Grigg, Beyond the God Delusion: How Radical Theology Harmonizes Science and Religion by Guy B. Hammond “Paul Tillich and the Twentieth Century Fichte Renaissance: Neo-Idealistic Features in his Early Accounts of Freedom and Existence” by Marc Boss “The New Atheism, the God Above God, and the Phenomenology of Wonder” by Richard Grigg “Response to Andrew Finstuen’s Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety” by Terry D. Cooper “What God Is Ultimate? Contrasting Tillich’s Different ‘Gods’ in Terms of Faith” by Daniel Boscaljon “The (Dis)Integration of Judaism in Tillich’s Theology of Universal Salvation” by Kayko Driedger Hesslein “Tillich and Adorno: Two Approaches to a Theology of Correlation” by Christopher Craig Brittain A Scientist–Jesuit Friendship: Paul H. Carr and Donald P. Merrifield, S. J., (1928 – 2010), President, Loyola Marymount University (1969 – 1984) by Paul Carr Annual Meeting If you know of a member not receiving the Bul- letin, perhaps the editor has the incorrect address. lease mark your calendars for the 2010 Annual Next year, we would like to publish an updated di- P Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich So- rectory of the entire membership online and, of ciety. The meeting will be held on Friday, October course, make it available to our colleagues in the 29, and Saturday, October 30, 2010 in Atlanta, other societies. Please help the editor correct ad- Georgia. The American Academy of Religion and dresses. the “Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Cul- ture Group” meets October 30 to November 2. In Memoriam: Jane Blaffer Owen The annual banquet of the NAPTS will take 18 April 1915 – 21 June 2010 place on Friday, October 29, at Pittypat’s Porch Res- taurant, 25 Andrew Young International Boulevard. candlelight prayer vigil for Jane Blaffer Owen 404.525.8228. The restaurant is located between A was held from 9 to 10 PM Friday, June 25, Peachtree Street and Spring Street, within easy 2010 at the Roofless Church in New Harmony, Indi- walking distance from the convention hotels. It is ana. Mrs. Owen, an arts patron, philanthropist, and also a block from the Peachtree Center Station of champion of the historic town, died June 21, 2010, MARTA, the Atlanta subway line. in Houston, Texas. The public laid flowers at the The distinguished speaker this year will be A. base of the Descent of the Holy Spirit sculpture un- Durwood Foster. More information and reservations der the dome of the Roofless Church. will be available in the fall issue of the Bulletin. Jane Owen’s life’s work was to preserve and For registration, please contact the AAR web- revitalize New Harmony. From the moment she saw site: it in 1941, soon after her marriage to Kenneth Dale http://www.aarweb.org/Meetings/An- Owen (the third-great grandson of Robert Owen) she nual_Meeting/Current_Meeting/default.asp fell in love with the town. She immediately went to Housing information is available after register- work founding the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation ing for the meeting. You must be registered to secure and transforming the long-neglected town into a ma- housing. “Advance” registration rates are in effect jor cultural center and visitor attraction. In addition until September 30, 2010. Check the Annual Meet- to preserving and rehabilitating numerous historic ing Program Planner for all the details, and register buildings, Owen created an extraordinary array of and book housing online. artwork and gardens as well as the New Harmony Annual Meeting Job Center preregistration is Inn and Red Geranium Restaurant. Furthermore, she currently open for candidates and employers. Prereg- commissioned widely acclaimed contemporary istration will close October 11. Register early to re- buildings from modern-day masters such as Philip ceive full benefits. For more information, see Johnson, who designed the Roofless Church. http://www.aarweb.org/programs/career_services/jo She was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of b_center. Humane Letters from University of Southern Indi- ana at the first Commencement in 1971. She also Dues Again received honorary doctorates from Northwood Uni- versity, Ball State University, Kenyon College, But- ler University, and Purdue University. She received “What? Are dues due again? I thought I had just the Sachem Award, which replaced the Sagamore of paid them,” one imaginary member of the NAPTS the Wabash as Indiana’s highest civilian honor, and was overheard saying when downloading this sum- the Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield Award, the mer Bulletin or opening the snail mail copy. national preservation movement’s highest accolade. Where does a year go? Yes, dues for 2010 are She supported University of Southern Indiana pro- payable with this issue. See the back page of this grams including the New Harmony Gallery of Con- Bulletin or the separate attachment with the e- temporary Art, Historic New Harmony, New Har- Bulletin. Dues are $50, students $20. If you are re- mony Theatre, Historic Southern Indiana, USI Soci- tired and the dues are a financial burden, please let ety for Arts and Humanities, RopeWalk Writers Re- the editor know. Only non-US residents may use treat, and the USI Annual Fund. credit cards. Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, vol. 36, 3, Summer 2010 3 Jane Blaffer Owen: had signed the original charter of The Texas Com- A Personal Tribute pany, the former Texaco. She grew up in the midst of immense wealth, and her horizons of privilege t was from Paul and Hannah Tillich that I first were limitless. I learned of Jane Owen. Hannah telephoned in Jane Owen arrived in that sleepy, obscure vil- August 1963 urgently asking me to come to East lage known to her world as a Houston oil heiress and Hampton for a week to help Tillich proofread gal- socialite. She departed it known to herself, her hus- leys of the long-awaited third volume of the System- band, and soon to others as one “whom a dream hath atic Theology. One day when we lunched on the possessed.” How is that astonishing, life-changing lawn by the Tillichs’ majestic copper beech, he discovery and encounter to be understood? This opened a package just delivered. As Hannah and I question has seized my imagination in the aftermath looked on, he unfolded a large drawing of an un- of her death. It is a compelling question, pointing to usual design that seemed to be an enormous fish where the answer ultimately could only lie—in the half-encircling a shell-like structure. In a whispered depths of her being, her relation to God, and the tone, puzzled by the design, Tillich explained that mystery of divine purpose, a language that was her this was the drawing for a “Cave of the New Being,” own. which a friend wanted to build in a park to honor In New Harmony, undercurrents of influences him. Then I heard the words “New Harmony” and and motivations broke through in a transformative the name “Jane Owen.” The setting, the moment, revelation. Converging were her father’s German and the words are vivid in memory. ancestry (an instant connection with the Harmonists, It was years later, not until the Society’s Confer- as it was much later with Tillich); her parents’ ex- ence of June 1999, that I had opportunity to meet ample of ethical and religious idealism, including and come to know this remarkable woman, to dis- her father’s knowledge and admiration of Robert cover the historic town of New Harmony whose res- Owen (“I read about Robert Owen before I met my toration had been her life’s dream, and to make my husband”); her Mother’s love of the visual arts (be- own pilgrimage to Paul Tillich Park, its grove of gun at the Louvre), inspiring her celebrated Texas trees beyond his Epitaph Stone now shading the in- art collection; Jane Owen’s education in Houston tended site of the un-built structure whose design I and the East, unusual for that period—the Ethel had seen so long before. That memorable weekend Walker School in Connecticut, Bryn Mawr, the was the beginning of a decade-long, cherished Washington School of Diplomacy—and her quest- friendship as I came to know Jane Owen, her daugh- ing, self-critical honesty, restless intellectual curios- ters Jane and Anne and their families, in three sub- ity that absorbed everything, and her own incipient sequent visits to New Harmony, in several summers utopian idealism. as a weekend guest in Rhode Island, and in her two But decisive was her fierce, even rebellious, in- visits to Harvard, one with Janie for the Paul Tillich dependent spirit and resistance to the constraints of a Lecture delivered by Ann Belford Ulanov. conformist, choreographed life in Houston society. Jane Owen was a woman of such effervescence, She was longing for “a room of her own,” a space charisma, grace, and openness, such intellectual and even distinct from marriage, a space answering to spiritual vibrancy, that it is difficult for me, and per- the deepest yearnings and intuitions of her devoutly haps for anyone, to grasp retrospectively how the Christian, mystically-inward, and ecumenically re- dusty, languishing Indiana village of New Harmony ligious self-understanding.
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