{"id":1603,"date":"2004-11-20T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/20\/tillichs-protestant-principle\/"},"modified":"2004-11-20T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T18:24:38","slug":"tillichs-protestant-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/20\/tillichs-protestant-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillich’s Protestant Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Perfectly exemplified here:<\/p>\n

\n

I
\n was walking across a bridge one day, and I came across
\n a man standing on the rail, about to jump. I said ‘Stop!
\n don’t do it!’<\/font><\/p>\n

‘Why
\n not?’ he said.<\/font><\/p>\n

I
\n said, ‘Well, there’s so much to live for!’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Like what?’<\/font><\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well… are you religious or atheist?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He
\n said, ‘I am quite religious.’<\/font><\/p>\n

I said, ‘Me too! Are you a Christian?’<\/font><\/p>\n


\n He said, ‘I am.’<\/font><\/p>\n

I said, ‘Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Protestant.’<\/font><\/p>\n


\n I said, ‘Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Baptist!’<\/font><\/p>\n

I
\n said, ‘What a happy coincidence. So am I. Are you Baptist Church
\n of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Baptist Church of God!’<\/font><\/p>\n

I
\n said, ‘Amen<\/font>!
\n Are you Original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist
\n Church of God?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Reformed Baptist Church of God!’<\/font><\/p>\n

I
\n said, ‘Amen and Amen! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation
\n of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?’<\/font><\/p>\n

He said, ‘Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation
\n of 1915!’<\/font><\/p>\n

I
\n said, ‘Die, Godless heretic!’ and pushed him off the rail. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfectly exemplified here: I was walking across a bridge one day, and I came across a man standing on the rail, about to jump. I said ‘Stop! don’t do it!’ ‘Why not?’ he said. I said, ‘Well, there’s so much to live for!’ He said, ‘Like what?’ I said, ‘Well… are you religious or atheist?’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}