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To: JohnM who wrote (192054)	6/19/2012 9:54:46 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543803

I've been barely following this discussion, because it's often very difficult (imo) to say what leads to dramatic social events- when it comes to the intersection of those events with the intellectual movements of authors and philosophers. There are so many threads woven in to events like the anti-war movement it's impossible to tease our just one- and say "This is why". After all, many very religious folks were involved in the anti-war movement, and in the fights against segregation- those folks definitely weren't existentialists. Hard to think of any people less existentialist than the folks in the black churches. But they were a huge part of the movement. But I didn't want to get in the way of folks arguing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin... Until now :-)

To: JohnM who wrote (192054)	6/19/2012 12:03:59 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543803

John, here is where you leave me. There is no evidence at all for any religion or myth. None. Not one shred. So what exactly would I be studying or learning by reading Tillich or Bultman? I am not intersted in anthropology. I am not interested in the many myths mankind has developed over the millenia. So instead of reading Tillich, Virgil or Dante, I read Donald Johanson and Richard Leaky. As I have posted before. My favorite quote by Will Durant: "The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind Ergo, Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thuscydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age. This is because though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason, makes brothers of its lovers, in all times, and everywhere." <<koan, I think you missed the question. He asked how existentialism and theology could be brought together. I offered these two accessible/readable Tillich volumes as an answer. Both published in the 50s. And definitely something my UT crowd were reading, two of which went to Harvard to study under Tillich. Both Tillich and Bultmann wrote out a Heidegerrian framework. About as deep a form of existential philosophy as one could get.