The conversation took place in October, 1960, on the backporch of Richard L. Johnson, M.D., then Director of the Psychiatric Residency Program and the Outpatient Clinic at the State Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Tillich understood he was simply to be present in an informal give-and-take on issues growing out of psychotherapeutic experience. This was part of a weekend of conversation between Dr. Tillich and faculty members at Denison University. There are four other conversations in the series. “Paul Tillich Converses on Culture and Religion,” “Paul Tillich Converses on Culture and Theology,” “Paul Tillich Converses on History and Theology” were published inFoundations: A Baptist Journal of History and Theology (1971,14, No. 1, 6–17; No. 2, 102–115; No. 3, 209–223); “Paul Tillich Converses on Psychology and Theology” is to be published in theJournal of Pastoral Care (in press).
The Rev. James B. Ashbrook, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Theology in the combined faculty of Colgate Rochester, Bexley Hall, Crozer, at Rochester, New York, who arranged these conversations, transcribed and edited them. His transcription is published here with the permission of Robert C. Kimball, Executor of the Literary Estate of Paul Tillich.
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The Experiential 40 Zen Buddhism 40 Question: Did you have a chance to speak to some of the Zen people there? 40 Question: Do you feel they have something to say to us? 41 Question: This other dimension? 41 Theological abstractness and Zen Buddhism 42 Question: Do you know Hannah Colm? 42 Contrasts between Christianity and Zen Buddhism: Enlightenment vs. Kingdom of God 43 Question: There is no community in it? 43 Question: Does this damage their capacity for interrelationships? 43 Identity vs. community 43 their capacity for interrelationships? 43 Question: Would that not have consequences in analysis, too, then? 44 Overagainstness 45 Comment: So there is not an overagainstness. 45 Question: The overpoliteness? 46 Comment: You are me. 46 Selfishness and self-love 46 Problems in terminology 47 The Theological 48 The paradoxical nature of acceptance 48 Christ symbolizes acceptance 48 Is the Christ symbol necessary? 49 Dr. Tillich: Oh yes, of course. It was in Paul. 51 Comment: From the beginning? 51 The anselmian theory of atonement 55 Can a person forgive himself? 54 Is guilt universal? 56 Guilt and guilt-feelings 56 Forgiveness and acceptance 59 The deepest problem 67 Notes and References 68
