theology and minietry

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GENERAL STUDY SCHEDULE

faith and life

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theology and ministry 19 Fall 61 faith and life

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Lecturea and Seminars

THEOI`OGY: THE MEANING OF THE GOD­RELATION

Lecture I Human Exiatence in Queation

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SEMINAR A Where are we trying to live today?

Lecture II Living at the Limits of Exiatence

SEMINAR B What can we dare to be in thia life?

MINISTRY: THE PROBLEM OF WORSHIP IN TE1E PARISH

Lecture III The Role and Rationale of Chriatian Worahip

SEMINAR C Why do we worship Chriatianly?

Lecture }V New Posaibilitiea in the Litureical Recovery

SEMINAR D How can our worahip be renewed?

Reading A;as~gnments

BACKGROUND READINGS (books)

Barrett, Wm. ­ Irrational Man (Doubleday)

Tillich, Paul ­ Courage to Be (Yale University Presa)

Barth, Karl ­ The Humanity of God (John Knox Presa)

Spike, Robert W. ­ In But Not of the World (Aesociation)

Abba, Raymond ­ Pr~nciplea of Christian Worship {Oxford REQUIRED READINGS (articlea) aeminar A

Miller, Arthur ­ The Shadow of the Gods

Niebuhr, H. R. ­ The Nature and E;xistence of God gem~nar B

Orgel, Irene ­ Jonah

Bultmann, Rudolph ­ Criaie of Faith eeminar C

White, Jamea F. ­ No People and God' e People

Our Common Worahip (Faith­and­Life Readinga)

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eeminar D

Fromm, Erich ­ The Nature of Symbolic Language

Michonneau, G. ­ A Living, Apoatolic Liturgy

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GUEST LE:CTURER MOVIE

Dr. Schubert M. Ogden All My Sona

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Aasoc~ate Profesaor of Theology

Porkine School of Theology ­ S. M. U. from the play

by Art',lur Miller

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theology and mini~try l9 Fall 60

mon­tuea­wed SESSION II

Leetures ant Sem~nars

TMEOLC)GY. THE MEANING OF THE CHRIST­EVENT

Lecture I The Hiatorical Communitv of Chriat

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Lecture II The C;ontemporaneity of Christ

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SEMINAR~ today?

MINISTRY: THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION IN THE PARISH

Lecture m The Role and Rationale of Chriatian Education

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Lecture IV The education ;d the Lay Miniater

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Reading Aeeignmente

BACKGRCUND READIMOS (boo'xs )

Tillich, Paul ­ Systematic Theology, Vol.II (Uni;r.Chicago)

Bultmann, Rudolf Jeau3 Christ ant Myt3010= {Scrlbuers)

May, Rollo ­ Exiatence ~Basic Booka)

Cully, Iria ­ ~am£cs of Chrietian Edueation (Wes~mln~ter)

Read, Herbert ­ The Phiiosophy of Me~e~n Art (Meridian)

REQUDit~ED READINGS Sarticies)

a~sminar A

Knax. John ­ The ::vet and The Story

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Bultmann, Rudolf ­ N'e`,~ ~eatament ard My~'n'­'ogy acminar ~

Tillich, Paul ­_ou Are Accepted

Hobba, Edward ­ The Gospel in So­Cal!.ed Sacu'.ar Drama

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seminar C

Weber, Hane­Re¢di ­ The Ministry of the Lai~r

Homrighausen, H. ­ No Monopoly on Sheological Educat~on serni~r D

Wals, H.H. ­ Theo'ogy of the Laity

Our Common Study {Etaith­and­Life Readinge)

GUEST I~ECTURER MCVIE

Dr, Donald L. Weismann

Department af Art ­ Univ. of Texas

' The Change ~n the We ltbilt of Modern Art "

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the ology and mi~is try 19 fall 61

mon ­ tues ­ wed Session III

Lectures and Seminars

THEOLOGY THE MEANING OF FAITH­FULL FREEDOM

Lecture I The Freedom to Embrace Life

SEMINAR A How can life as it is be good?

Lecture II The Freedom to Choose Freedom

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SEMINAR 3 What does it mean to decide?

MINISTRY: IHE PROBLEM OF FELLOWSHIP IN THE PARISH

SEMINAR C Is there a difference in Christian fellowship? Lecture IV The Rule of Life and The Lay Ministry

SEMINAR D Can there be a religious discipline?

Reading Assignments

BACKGROUND READINGS (books)

Religion and Gulture, Essays in honor of Paul Tillich, ed. by U'alter Leibrecht, (Harpers)

30nhoeffer, Deitrich ­ Ethics (Macmillan)

E3lackmur, R. P. ­ Form and VaLue in Modern Poetry, (Anchor, A9 6)

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich ­ Life Together (Macmillan)

MacLeod, George F. ­ Only One Way Left (Iona Community)

REQUIRED READINGS (articles) seminar~ A

Bonhoeffer, Oietrich ­ Christ, The Church and the U!orld

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Niebohr, H. R. ­ EvangeLical and Protestant Ethics seminar B

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich ­ Freedom

Michaelson, Garl ­ Christian Faith and Existential Freedom

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seminar C

Macleod, George F ­ In the Midst of the Congregation

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich ­ Community

ReminAr n

Roger S., Prior of Taize ­ The Rule of Taize

Michonneau, G. ­ The Equipment of Modern Apostles

MOVIE: The Heart of the Matter

from the novel by Graham Greene

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Lecturea and Seminara

­,HEOLOGY: THE; MEANING OF THE SIN­DISRELATION

Lecture I The Unfaith of Weakneas ­ Illusion

SEM~AR A How ia virtue related to ain?

Lecture II The Unfaith of Strength ­ Defiance

SEMINAR B What ia aelf­conscioua defiance of life ?

MD!lISTRY: THE PROBLEM OF MISSION IN THE PARISH

SEMINAR C What ia the local pariah?

Lecture IV Corporate Diaciplined Action in the Local Churc

SEMINAR D How can a pariah act aa a body in society ?

Reading ~asignments

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BACKGROU~I>READINGs (booka)

­ Zuurdeeg, William F. ­An Analytical Philosophy of

Religion (AbingdonJ

Kierkegsard, S.K. ­ The Concept of Dread (Princeton)

Littell, Franklin H. ­ The German Phoenix (Doubleday)

Kraemer, Hendrick ­ A Theology of the Laity (Weatminater)

Scott, Nathan A. ­ Modern Literature and the Religioua

Frontier (Harpera)

REQUIRED READINGS (articlea) seminar A

Kierkegaard, S. K. ­ The Sickness unto Death (pp, 146­147; 162; 175­194)

Niebuhr, H. R. ­ Man the Sinner aeminar B

Kierkegaard, S. K, ­ The Sicknesa unto Death (pp. 194­307)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor ­ The Grand Inquisitor aeminar C

Kraemer, Hendrick ­ A Theology of the Laity

Viseer T'Hooft, W. A, ­ The Miasion of the Church aeminar D

Siaiel, H. B. ­ The Church in Culture

~ ~ Yiebuhr, H. R. ­ The Reaponaibility of the Church

for Society

GUEST LECTURER

Dr. Wm. Arrowsmith

The Univeraity of Texaa

"Claasical Greek Self­Understanding and the Contemnor~a~r Mood"

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