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Bulletin The North American Paul Tillich Society Volume XLI, Number 1 Winter 2015 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, Loyola Marymount University Assistant to the Editor: Vicky Gonzalez, Santa Clara University Telephone: 408.554.4714/ 408.554.4547 FAX: 408.554.2387 Email: [email protected] Website: www.NAPTS.org/ Webmeister: Michael Burch, San Rafael, California ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ In this issue: ❏ The Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society in San Diego and the New Officers of the Society ❏ Call for Papers for the 2015 Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society ❏ Call for Papers for the American Academy of Religion Group “Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture,” November 2015 ❏ Call for Book Proposals and Articles by Walter de Gruyter ❏ Invitation Letter: “Ultimate Concern—Paul Tillich, Buddhism, Confucianism,” July 2015 at Hong Kong Baptist University ❏ Letter from Kent Schuette, Member, Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation Board of Directors ❏ Spring Meeting of the Deutsche-Paul-Tillichs-Gesellschaft ❏ New Publications on Tillich ❏ In Memoriam: William R. Crout by Charles Fox ❏ The Annual NAPTS Banquet Address by Peter Slater: “Looking Back While Looking Forward” ❏ Review of Ronald Stone, Politics and Faith: Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich at Union Seminary in New York (Mercer Tillich Series) by Marion H. Pauck ❏ “Freedom as Autonomy: Observation of Paul Tillich’ Reception of Nietzsche” by Christian Danz ❏ “Trinitarian Symbolism, Mysticism and the God above God” by Keith Chan Ka-fu The 2014 Annual Meeting of the NAPTS Call for Papers North American Paul Tillich Society 2015 Meeting and the Election of New Officers Atlanta, Georgia he annual meeting of the North American n commemoration of the 50th anniversary of T Paul Tillich Society was held in San Diego, I Paul Tillich’s death and in honor of his endur- California on Friday, November 22, and Saturday, ing legacy, paper proposals for the 2015 Annual November 23, 2014, in conjunction with the Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Soci- meeting of the American Academy of Religion. ety in Atlanta are welcomed on the following top- The AAR Group, “Tillich: Issues in Theology, ics: Religion, and Culture” also met on Sunday and (1) First-person accounts of how Tillich has Monday, November 24 and 25. The meeting on affected your own teaching; Monday was a joint meeting with the AAR’s (2) Tillich and Lutheran theology; Kierkegaard Society (3) Feminist appropriations and re- The annual banquet of the Society was held assessments of Tillich; on Friday night, November 22, 2014, at Seasons 52 (4) Interdisciplinary engagements with and re- Restaurant, near the San Diego Convention Cen- sponses reflecting the legacy and enduring ap- ter. The guest speaker at the banquet was Peter peal of The Courage to Be. Slater. His banquet address is published in this Bulletin. Tillich-related papers on other themes will be se- New officers were elected to serve the Society riously considered, with specific themes for ses- for 2015: sions determined by the merit of the proposals received. Proposals submitted to the AAR Tillich President Group that are not selected will also be consid- Charles Fox, SUNY/ Empire State College ered with permission of the author. Emeritus President Elect Please send proposals by April 1 electronically to: Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College Bryan Wagoner, Davis & Elkins College Vice President Email: <[email protected]> Daniel Peterson, Seattle University Method of proposal submission: MS Word Secretary-Treasurer Attachments preferred Frederick Parrella, Santa Clara University Deadline: 15 April 2015 Past President and Chair, Nominating Committee Duane Olsen, McKendree University Call for Papers American Academy of Religion Group Three new members of the Board of Directors “Tillich: Issues in Theology, were also appointed for a three-year term, expir- Religion, and Culture” ing in 2017: 2015 Meeting Christopher Rodkey Atlanta, Georgia Zachary Royal M. Lon Weaver Statement of Purpose The Officers and the Board of the Society extend their most sincere gratitude to those The AAR Group fosters scholarship and scholarly members of the Society who have served on the exchanges that analyze, criticize, and interpret the Board for a three-year term expiring in 2014: thought or impact of Paul Tillich (1886–1965) and Marc Dumas, Université de Sherbrooke that use his thought—or use of revisions or reac- Janet Giddings, Santa Clara University and tions against his thought—to deal with contem- San Jose State University porary issues in theology, religion, ethics, or the Marcia MacLennan, Kansas Wesleyan political, social, psychotherapeutic, scientific, or University artistic spheres of human culture. We cooperate Congratulations to the new officers! with the North American Paul Tillich Society (a Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, vol. 41, no. 1, Winter 2015 3 Related Scholarly Organization of the AAR), Open Theology—an international Open Access, which is linked with the German, French, and peer-reviewed academic journal other Tillich societies. Papers at our sessions are (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth), published in the Society’s quarterly Bulletin with- launched recently by De Gruyter Open, welcomes out prejudice to their also appearing elsewhere. contributions addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, socio- 2015 Program Plan logical, psychological, and other. The journal encompasses all major disciplines In honor of the 50th anniversary of Paul Til- of Theology and Religious Studies, presenting lich's death on October 13, 1965, we call for pa- doctrine, history, organization, and everyday life pers that assess Tillich's impact in a variety of ar- of various types of religious groups and the rela- eas, such as philosophical theology, religion and tions between them. We publish articles from the science, black theology, feminist theology, Asian field of Theology as well as Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of Religion and dialogue between theology, art(s) and religion, and popular culture. Religion and Science. The Open Theology does not We are also interested in papers that present present views of any particular theological school an exploration of future possibilities for incorpo- nor of a particular religious organization. The rating Tillich's ideas. For example, in his last pub- contributions are written by researchers who rep- lic lecture in Chicago he specifically stated that his resent different religious views. The authors pre- hope for the future of Christian theology lay in its sent their research concerning the old religious encounter with world religions. What progress has traditions as well as new religious movements. been made in interreligious dialogue, and what The authors are given a variety of benefits: remains to be accomplished? —convenient, web-based manuscript submission Papers that address other aspects of the range, and tracking system; diversity, and depth of Tillich's thought, past, pre- —transparent, comprehensive and fast peer- sent, and future, are welcome. review; We also welcome suggestions for roundtable —efficient route to fast-track publication and full sessions. A roundtable session has one announced advantage of De Gruyter’s e-technology; theme and participants in the session address that —no publication charge in the first three annual theme but do not present separate formal papers. volumes; Please provide information about the theme un- —free language assistance for authors from non- der consideration, a list of participants’ names and English speaking regions; institutions of affiliation, the name of the person All accepted papers will be immediately avail- who will preside, and the name of the person(s) able on-line. asked to respond (if applicable.) More information about the journal may be found at: Call for Book Proposals http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth and Articles To submit an article for Open Theology, please use the on-line submission system http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ From Katarzyna Tempczyk of De Gruyter Open, Please feel free to forward this invitation to a part of De Gruyter publishing group: any interested colleagues and associates. De Gruyter Open, a part of De Gruyter publish- ing group, invites book proposals for the Open Access program on Theology and Religious Stud- Invitation Letter ies. Especially welcome are proposals for the new Ultimate Concern: series on: Hinduism, New Religious Movements Paul Tillich, Buddhism, Confucianism and Philosophy of Religion. More details to be found at: Centre for Sino-Christian Studies http://degruyteropen.com/you/book- Hong Kong Baptist University author/subjects/theology_religious_studies/As 24 November 2014 Dear Prof. Frederick J. Parrella: Call for Submissions—Open Theology Journal Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, vol. 41, no. 1, Winter 2015 4 Paul Tillich, 20th century Protestant theologian during the conference period. If you would be and philosopher of religion, was one of the great interested in participating in our conference as a heritages in the 20th century. As David Tracy speaker, we would be very grateful to have you fill said, “the impact of Paul Tillich’s work in con- out the attached