COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BULLETIN TRAINING MINISTRY "The training of candidates for the ministry ..." This is the responsibility or a seminary. How are can- didates to be trained? They must learn certain facts and acquire basic practical skills. But has a candidate received his education when he is able to repeat facts? Is he educated when he is able to function satisfac- torily in particular situations? Are all candidates alike? Is each person trained in the same way? Columbia Seminary recognizes that each person has individual needs. Facts and practical skills are impor- tant, but are not a complete theological education. Thus its program of training for the ministry" allows for flexibility to meet the needs of the individual. Columbia is concerned that each candidate receive the instruction and guidance needed to come to under- standing and maturity. In this way the individual's theological education is begun. By maintaining a low student-faculty ratio Colum- bia seeks to provide guidance to meet the individual student's needs. A program of independent study is offered in the first year to men who have shown un- usual proficiency in advanced work in religious or Biblical studies at the college level. In this program provision is made for a more flexible course than is normally required. Provision is made also for indi- Jn -ApJ, 1965 ROCK EAGLE MISSIONS CONFERENCE Twelve hundred high school and college young people are expected for' the Thirteenth Annual World Missions Conference at Rock Eagle 4-H Center, April 16-18. The conference is sponsored by the Society of Missionary Inquiry. Featured speakers for the three day conference will be Rev. Jon Crow, Missionary Evangelist to Brazil; Dr. C. Darby Fulton, former Secretary of the Board of World Missions, now Professor of Missions at Columbia Seminary; Mr. Walter Shepard, mission- ary to the Congo and acting Area Secretary for Europe and Africa of the Board of World Mis- sions; and Dr. Eric Fife, Missionary Director, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. A group of foreign students will participate in a panel discus- sion concerning the conditions and needs for the Gospel in their own country. Slides and missionary briefings will be presented to give the conferees a survey of the needs and present conditions of the mission work of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Twenty-five Presbyterian U.S. Missionaries will lead seminars and personal consultations. The song leader for the conference will be Mr. Cliff Barrows of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. COLUMBIA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PILGRIMAGE Seven hundred women are expected to partici- pate in the Ninth Annual Pilgrimage of the Columbia Friendship Circle on Thursday, April 22. Dr. Wade P. Huie, Jr., Professor of Homi- letics, will deliver the main address and the Columbia Seminary Choir will sing. Other high- lights of the program include a luncheon and a tour of the campus. The women who will come to the Decatur campus for this program are part of the 10,000 men and women who annually par- ticipate in the program of Columbia Friendship Circle. COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BULLETIN Vol. LVIII April, 1965 No. 2 Published five times a year by Columbia Theological Seminary, Box 291, Decatur, Georgia, 30031. Entered as second-class matter, May 9, 1928, at the Post Office at Decatur, Ga., under the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. Second Class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia. ^jracultu i It v 'eu/3 DR. WADE P. HUIE, JR. and DR. CHARLES B. COUSAR spoke at the Ministers' Retreat of the Synod of South Carolina in February. DR. DEAN G. McKEE spoke at the Annual Retreat of the ministers of the Synod of Georgia. DR. COUSAR was the Religious Emphasis speaker at Lees-McRae College at Banner Elk, North Caro- lina in March. DR. STUART B. BABBAGE will deliver the Commencement Addresses at Western Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Calvin College. This June DR. SAMUEL A. CARTLEDGE and his family will be leaving for England where they will be during Dr. Cartledge's sabbatical leave. Other faculty members will be participating in meetings across the country and in Europe during the summer, some of which are listed here. DR. HUIE will be on the faculty of the Georgia Synodical Train- ing School. DR. MANFORD G. GUTZKE will be speaking at the Synodical Training School for Mississippi. DR. BABBAGE and DR. P. T. FUHRMANN have received grants to study at the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renais- sance Studies at the University of North Carolina. DR. FUHRMANN will give an address at the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Religions in Claremont, California on "Zwuigli's Concept of Man's Fall and Alienation." Libra- rian HAROLD PRINCE will serve as guest lec- turer at Emory University Division of Librarian- ship for the summer term. DR. McKEE will deliver a series of Bible Studies at the Annual Meeting of the Mexico Mission in May, in June he will speak at the Florida-Georgia Youth Leadership School and at the Workshop of the Association of Christian Educators of the Pres- byterian Church, U.S. at Montreat. DR. COUSAR and DR. JAMES H. GAILEY, JR. will be teaching in the Summer Language School, July 13 through August 28. DR. C. DARBY FULTON will be speaking at the Summer Institute of Missions at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. DR. P. E. HUGHES will serve as the British Chaplain in Lucerne, Switzerland in July and during the summer will also speak at the Christian Reformed Ministers Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan; a conference of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion, Pawl- ing, New York; the Evangelical Library, London England, and the Pensacola Conference. DR. GUTZKE will be speaking at Bible Conferences in Forest Homes, Glendale, and Mt. Hermon, Cali- fornia. In the fall, DR. HUBERT VANCE TAYLOR will lead the Second Annual Worship Workshop in Jackson, Missouri for Presbyterian U.S., United Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ congregations in the area. THE REV- EREND CHARLES V. GERKIN was named "man of the month" in Pastoral Psychology in February. He had an article on "Becoming a Pastor" in the same issue. ^eminaru L^n y oir Georgia TRAV has released to all the radio stations in Georgia a recording of the Seminary Choir. A limited number of stereo recordings were released by the Assembly's TRAV commit- tee to FM stations throughout the country who broadcast in stereo. Plans are being made for additional recordings this spring. Congregations in Rome, Dalton, Decatur and Gainesville, Georgia; Anniston and Alexander City, Alabama; and Anderson, South Carolina, have had the Choir lead worship services for them. The Choir has also sung at the University of Georgia Westminster House, the dedication serv- ices of the Columbia Drive Baptist Church, the Henry County Music Club in McDonough, Geor- gia, and the Ninth Annual Pilgrimage of Colum- bia Friendship Circle. Ljradi retaliation, 1965 The commencement activities for 1965 will be- gin with a faculty reception honoring the graduat- ing class and its guests at 4:30 P.M. on Saturday, May 29th. On Sunday, May 30th, the Rev. Vance Barron, pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon at the Columbia Church. The sermon before the Society of Mis- sionary Inquiry will be delivered at the Decatur Church at 8:00 P.M. that evening by the Rev. John N. Somerville, missionary to Korea. The graduation exercises will be held at the Columbia Church at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, May 31st. It is hoped that Secretary of State Dean Rusk will be the speaker at that time. ^rn +^rnteruiew with the t II loderator . . . Has your year as Moderator changed your view of the church? My year as Moderator has not altered my view of the church. It has given an opportunity to see a great deal more of the church, and to meet a great many people. It has helped also to understand some of the tensions in our church, and in other Protestant Churches, especially in our section of the country. I find our church, generally speaking, active, loyal, interested and concerned with the things of the kingdom, pretty much as you might expect and hope. Do you feel there has been a change in the attitude of the ministers? When I left Union Seminary in 1926 we thought the church was without many tensions or prob- lems. Changes in the thinking of our ministers have taken place. We have gone through a world de- pression and a world war, and we realize that while the church is not of the world it is in the world. It has to deal with questions and problems of our time. How are our ministers dealing with these prob- lems? I am of the opinion that our ministers for the most part realize the grave situation in which we live today, and are convinced that the church can- not ignore the problems that confront our society. How do our former students measure up in this situation? I have been very much impressed with the de- velopment of the men I have known since I began teaching at Columbia. I find that men, who only a few years ago were students with a student outlook and maturity, are now accepting and discharging places of responsibility in the church. I have been very proud many times. This has been a year of great decisions for our church, particularly in social issues. What has led Dr. Felix B. Gear, Professor of Systematic The- ology, was interviewed by Gene Home, a senior, on his year as Moderator of the General Assembly. you to the stand you have taken concerning the broader interests of the church? This issue is one of the subjects of controversy in many of our Protestant Churches. I think it is especially so in ours. What is the real nature of the church? What is its true mission? These questions are involved here. There are those who think of the church's mission primarily in terms of evan- gelism, which is often interpreted in a rather nar- row way. There are probably others who are more likely to minimize the aspect of evangelism as part of the mission of our church and concentrate on education, pastoral work and concern with social issues. I do not believe, however, that any- one in our church would knowingly neglect evan- gelism. Having learned something of the history and tradition of our church over the years, I have come to believe that this is basically a false issue. In the tradition of our Presbyterian Churches there is really no conflict between evangelism and an expression of Christian faith in love as seen in a genuine concern for the welfare of mankind. I was reading just recently that in Geneva Calvin had his elders go out at night to see that the lights were properly turned off, and that the nurses did not go to bed with infants because of the danger of crush- ing them. Thev jdidn't believe that doing such things was improper for an elder in the church in Geneva. Continued on Next Page What response have you gotten to your views? I have really been gratified at the response that has been given. Often people have said that they were glad that this subject had been dealt with, and that it had been made clear that these broader con- cerns were not out of line with historic Calvinism or Presbyterianism. As you talk I get the idea that this is the major concern of your year as Moderator. Oh, no! I wouldn't say that! It's been one. Another concern that I have stressed this year has been evangelism. I told a group recently that I had spoken a good many more times on the need of our church for a broader basis of membership and outreach than on any other subject. I have spoken on the subject, "The Open Door." I have in mind the door that is open to our church today in our rapidly growing and changing southland. I have pointed out that we have been a minority church and a privileged church in that our members occupy the upper echelons of the social order in the south. I have asked the question, "Why is it that this remains consistently true within our church?" Have you come to any conclusion? I have always asked the question; I have never received an answer. I often ask the question like this Do we Presbyterians really want our church to branch out so as to include all classes of people? One last thing, Dr. Gear: What impressed you about your trip to the Congo? I was delighted with my visit to the Congo in almost every way. The country is beautiful beyond description and the climate seemed almost perfect. I was very impressed with the fine group of mis- sionaries we have in the Congo. They are loyal, dedicated, capable men and women. To me it was particularly impressive to observe their ability to go from one language to the other like the auto- matic transmission on a car. It was most encourag- ing to observe the faith and confidence they have in these days when everything seems so very uncer- tain. The missionaries must find it very difficult to plan in advance because the political conditions in the Congo are quite uncertain and perhaps are get- ting worse. However, they go about their work as though they had the normal span of time ahead of them. HOW MANY BUTCHY-CHUCKIES* GOT WHERE THEY ARE Every child is born ignorant and with feelings of inadequacy. For instance, he sees his parents walk with ease, and he cannot. Isolated primitive man found that he could maintain his life only by gaining knowledge from other human beings and living in association with them. Society (or civility) was man's defense against inexorable forces of nature. But many a Butchy-Chucky to- day does not want to learn anything from any one, for he has his own private technique of life. Instead of building bridges toward his fellow-man and humanity, many a Butchy-Chucky builds a series of walls around himself as (false) security, as following: 1. IGNORANCE which begets FEARS which beget SOCIAL ISOLATION which begets HOSTILITY TOWARD HUMANITY, MISAN- THROPY and SUSPICION which beget 5. PREOCCUPATION WITH HIS OWN PET IDEAS which begets 6. PARANOIA which denies life, and not only renounces responsibility (that is, blames others even God for his own failures) but actually projects it upon imaginary enemies. For the DIFFERENCE (historians are sup- posed to show the differences) between FAITH AND PARANOIA, see Karl Stern's THE THIRD REVOLUTION A study of Psychiatry and Re- ligion (Doubleday Image papercover Book D 1 13, 75<), pages 182-199. For the DIFFERENCE between MORBID AND WHOLESOME RELIGION, see John G. McKenzie's NERVOUS DISORDERS AND RELIGION (Collier papercover Book AS 407 V, 95^). For a psychological study of the CLERGY, see Arthur Guirdham's CHRIST AND FREUD (Col- lier papercover Book AS 336 V, 95^)- * Butchy-Chucky, known to all Columbia students since Professor P. T. Furhmann came to the faculty, sym- bolizes the average student. The sequel to this article, "The Way Butchy-Chucky Can Get Out Of The Hole," will appear in a later bullethi. Winitter*' Week October 25-29, 1965 THE SMYTH LECTURES "Pastoral Care in Social Dilemmas" ( 1 ) Theological Presuppositions and Pastoral Care (2) The Pastoral Care of the Extremists (1) (3) The Pastoral Care of the Extremists (2) (4) Pastoral Care and Extramarital Behavior (5) Pastoral Care of Divorcees DR. WAYNE E. OATES Professor of Psychology or Religion Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky THE ALUMNI LECTURES "The Christian Message Coming of Age" DR. ALBERT N. WELLS, Pastor First Presbyterian Church Laurinburg, North Carolina THE WORSHIP SERVICES DR. ELAM DA VIES, Pastor Fourth Presbyterian Church Chicago, Illinois ALUMNI LUNCHEON Tuesday, October 26th Reunion for Classes of 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965 vidual and group assistance to those who have weak- nesses in their pre-seminary preparation. A summer reading program helps all Columbia stu- dents broaden their perspectives and fields of learn- ing. It also aids the students in learning to read and study in the midst of a busy parish program. In the required hos- pital pastoral care seminar, students are given training to serve as pastors in crisis situa- tions. This training is avail- able not only in cooperation with both public and private general hospitals, but also at a state mental hospital and an alcoholic rehabilitation hospital. All students need some opportunity for creative work, self-discovery and self-expression. This is pro- vided through seminars in both basic course work and electives. A greater opportunity is offered qualified seniors in an Honors Program. In this program inde- pendent and intensive study in one field of theological study is undertaken. The senior doing Honors work is excused from certain required courses so that he may pursue his special work under the guidance of a faculty member. Through a good deal of his educational program, the student has been required to "learn about some- thing" and "give it back" to his professor on an ex- amination. In the Honors Program he is freed to bring together and apply the vast array of material he has faced. His curiosity is given a chance to lead him to the thrill of new discoveries. The excitement in- volved in evaluating a thesis or relating new in- sights to old knowledge brightens his studying. This experience encour- ages him to do addi- tional study, try new approaches and see new rela- tionships. The motivation for learning becomes an internal rather than an external thing. In addition to the immediate benefits, the Honors student begins to develop the patterns of self-discipline that will enable him to continue effective studies in the midst of a parish program or in a program of graduate studies. Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia