I am continuing to read the archive at Dialogue, this week Louis Midgley's article “Religion and Ultimate Concern: An Encounter with Paul Tillich's Theology," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1966): 63-79. [The table of contents for the issue allows downloads of pdf files for every article.] Midgley applauds Tillich's attempt to highlight the religious dimension of culture and institutions through his concept of "ultimate concern," which Midgley terms a "genuinely useful concept." Properly, God should be our ultimate concern, but too often individuals, as well as institutions and states, are ultimately concerned with other goals (which constitutes a form of idolatry or false religion).
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