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Scene: In a darkened academic lecture hall, a short blond SCHOLAR steps into the light, wearing a ringmaster's garb and carrying in her hands a top hat, hole up. She reaches into the hat, and begins to pull out scholarly works with their pages glued end to end like a set of silk scarves.

SCHOLAR: Ladies and Gentlemen and Variations Thereupon! For this evening's entertainment, a work of mental gymnastics spanning the last half-century!
Paul Johannes Tillich wrote a Systematic Theology, and the process theologian Charles Hartshorne read it and made his comments about it.
"I will now, with all fear and trembling, attempt to answer the questions that Hartshorne had about Tillich and a few of my own, and thus attempt to reconcile Tillich's doctrine of God to Hartshorne's or the other way around, so that we shall see that Tillich's christology leads to a highly similar situation as Hartshorne's divine relativity, in which the whole of human experience and nature is brought into unity with God.

"After that, I shall prove that white is black and think my way out of a paper bag without the safety net of dialectical theory!

"Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott hilf mich!"