The North American Paul Tillich Society is dedicated to the study of the thought of Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and the application of his works to other areas of human knowledge.

Spring 2012 Paul Tillich Lecture

Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
The Memorial Church
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

50th Anniversary Symposium
“Paul Tillich at Harvard: First and Future Generations”

    Speakers:
  • Harvey Cox
    Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
  • Ann Belford Ulanov
    Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York
  • Gerald Holton
    Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University

Paul Tillich is universally recognized as one of the preeminent theologians of our time. Tillich was appointed University Professor at Harvard in 1954 and taught for seven years, 1955–1962, a period in which he spoke and lectured to great acclaim in this country and abroad, including Japan. Retiring at the mandatory age of 75, he accepted appointment as the John Nuveen Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, a newly created chair, and remained there until his death in 1965. This Symposium, commemorating Tillich’s seven- year tenure at Harvard and the 50th anniversary of his retirement in 1962, presents a discussion by “first generation” undergraduate and graduate students of Tillich's, Professors Ann Belford Ulanov (Radcliffe B.A., 1959) and Harvey Cox (Ph.D., 1963), and a “first generation” faculty colleague, Professor Gerald Holton (Ph.D., 1948). The participants will offer reflections on the significance of Tillich during his Harvard years and for present and future generations.

William R.Crout, S.T.B. 1958, A.M. 1969, is Founder and Curator of Harvard’s Paul Tillich Lectures, of which this is the 39th in the series. They are free and open to the public.