Tambaram twenty-five years after
pp. 225-234
in: Leroy Rouner (ed), Philosophy, religion, and the coming world civilization, Berlin, Springer, 1966Abstract
The title of my Tambaram essay, "Between Hocking and Kraemer," is a kind of shorthand. It may reveal its meaning better if I compare it with the essay for the Christian Century's series on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Past Ten Years," which I wrote on shipboard, in a storm, on the way home from Tambaram: "Between Liberalism and Neo-Orthodoxy." In both cases, the title meant that I was in a dialectical relation to a liberal philosophy of religion on the one hand and an emphasis on the unique place of Christ and the Christian revelation on the other. In order to understand both poles of that relation, I must go back, autobiographically, before I can go forward.