Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 54, number 2, April 1961

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COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Vol. LIV

April, 1961

No. 2

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SPRING LECTURE WEEK

ALUMNI MEETING

HONORS' DAY PROGRAM

SPECIAL WEEK OF LECTURES

A varied program of special lectures will be presented
at Columbia Theological Seminary during the week of May
1-5, 1961 in connection with the annual meeting of the
Alumni Association and the second annual Honors' Day
Celebration, both of which will be held on Tuesday, May 2.

ALUMNI MEETING

The annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the
Seminary will be held at 12:30 P.M. on Tuesday, May 2
with luncheon served in the new Student Center of the
Seminary. This special meeting of the Alumni Association
was postponed from the Fall of I960 in oder that alumni
of the Seminary might visit the campus after the completion
of the Student Center. The meeting will include the election
of Alumni officers and other business.

HONORS' DAY PROGRAM
Address by Professor David Cairns

Earlier on the same day, Tuesday, May 2, at 11:00
A.M., a special convocation of students, alumni and friends
of the Seminary will be held in the sanctuary of the Co-
lumbia Presbyterian Church for the second annual Honors-
Day program. The program will include an address by
Guest Professor David Cairns and the announcement of
awards to Seniors and other students.

Doctor Cairns is Professor of Practical Theology of
Christ College of Aberdeen University. He took his final
honors in the school of Literae Humaniores at Balliol Col-
lege, Oxford University, and has received a D. D. from the
University of Edinburgh. In addition he has studied with
Karl Heim at Tuebingen. with Emil Brunner at Zurich and
at the Montpelier Seminary. He is a member of the Faith
and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.
His experience as a minister includes service under George
McLeod at Govan and as an Army Chaplain during the
Second World War. His publications include The Image of
God in Man and A Theology without Myth? Bultmanris
Challenge to the Preacher. He has also done translation
work, including the second volume of Brunner's Dogmatic
Theology which will be forthcoming.

LECTURES ON PASTORAL CARE
Reverend Leroy G. Kerney
Four lectures in the field of Pastoral Care will be given
by Professor Leroy G. Kerney of the Institute of Religion
of the Texas Medical Center of Houston, Texas. The lec-
tures will be given in the sanctuary of the Columbia Presby-
terian Church at times indicated in the accompanying
schedule on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1-3.
Topics for the lectures in this series have been announced
as follows:

1. New Frontiers in Pastoral Care

2. A Pastoral Understanding of Disease and Illness

3. A Pastoral Understanding of Vocation

4. The Role of Vocation in Disease and Illness

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The Institute of Religion of the Texas Medical Center
is a cooperative project, pioneering in the field of health
and seeking to join the findings of medicine and the in-
sights of religion in healing. It offers instruction and inspira-
tion to the entire health team of physicians, nurses, minis-
ters and medical students. Five Texas seminaries including
the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, six hospitals,
the Baylor University College of Medicine and the Texas
Woman's University College of Nursing all participate in
the program of the Institute, and in addition ministers and
doctors and nurses throughout the state of Texas have par-
ticipated in seminars, workshops and training courses given
by the staff of the Institute.

Professor Kerney is one of three professors of Pastoral
Care on the staff of the Institute, and he works in close
association with the Chaplain Supervisors of the hospitals.
He was trained at Westmar College of Iowa and the Evan-
gelical Theological Seminary of Naperville, Illinois. He has
studied at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and has
nearly completed his Ph. D. work at the University of
Chicago in the field of Religion and Personality. He has
completed 16 months of full time supervised hospital ex-
perience at several hospitals, including the Elgin State Hos-
pital in Illinois, the Norton Memorial Hospital in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, the Manteno State Hospital and St. Eliza-
beth's Hospital of Washington, D. C. He has also served
as Assistant Minister of the First Evangelical United Breth-
ren Church of Naperville, Illinois and as Protestant Chap-
lain of the Manteno State Hospital. He is an accredited
Chaplain Supervisor with the Council for Clinical Training,
and has lectured at McCormick Theological Seminary on
the subject "Counseling and Christian Therapy." He is a
member of the Presbytery of Houston of the United Presby-
terian Church in the U. S. A.

UNIVERSITY CENTER LECTURER
Reverend H. H. Farmer, D. D.

Professor H. H. Farmer of Cambridge University will
lecture on Monday and Tuesday, May 1-2, at 7:30 P.M.
in the sanctuary of the Columbia Presbyterian Church in
connection with his visit to the Atlanta area as a lecturer
of the University Center in Georgia. The two lectures at
Columbia Seminary will be a part of a series of three lec-
tures on "Christ our Reconciliation" and will deal respec-
tively with Christ's work as "Prophet" and as "Priest". The
third lecture of the series entitled, "Christ our Reconcilia-
tion: King," will be given on Wednesday, May 3, at the
Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Profes-
sor Farmer will also lecture at Agnes Scott College during
his visit to the Atlanta area.

Dr. Farmer is now retired from his position as Norris-
Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. He
was a Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, taking
first class honors in Moral Sciences and receiving the Bur-
ney Studentship in the Philosophy of Religion. He was
minister of the Presbyterian Church of Stafford for several

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years and later was minister of St. Augustine's Presby-
terian Church. New Burnet. In 1930 he was Carew Lecturer
at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in the United States,
and following this served for several years as Riley Profes-
sor of Christian Doctrine at the Hartford Seminary Founda-
tion. Later he v/as successively Barbour Professor of Syste-
matic Theology at Westminster College in Cambridge and
Stanton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge
before becoming Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at
Cambridge. He gave the Lyman Beecher Lectures on
Preaching at Yale in 1946 and the Gifford Lectures at
Glasgow in 1950-51. He has received an honorary D.D.
from Glasgow University.

Professor Farmer is well known as the author of a
number of volumes, including Things Not Seen, Experience
of God, The World and God, The Healing Cross, The Ser-
vant of the Word, Towards Belief in God, God and Men,
and Revelation and Religion. He is also a contributor to
the Interpreter's Bible.

CHURCH HISTORY LECTURES
Professor Jaques Courvoisier

Additional lectures have been planned for May 3, 4 and
5. These lectures will be given by Professor Jaques Cour-
voisier, Professor of Church History and Dean of the
Geneva School of Theology, now in this country as a Visit-
ing Lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary. The first
of this group of lectures will be given at 11:00 A.M. on
Wednesday, May 3, in the sanctuary of the Columbia
Presbyterian Church; the two remaining lectures will be
given at the regular chapel hour (10:05 A.M.) on Thurs-
day and Friday, May 4 and 5, and will also be given at the
Columbia Presbyterian Church.

Professor Courvoisier has a Th.D. from Strasbourg
University, and in addition to his official position at the
Geneva School of Theology, he serves as Rector of the
University of Geneva. He has published books (in French)
on Bucer's idea of the Church and on Zwingli. He also has
published a short history of Protestantism. Topics for his
lectures will be announced.

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

9:30 A.M. 10:05 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 7:30 P.M.

Monday, May 1 Kerney Farmer

Tuesday, May 2 Kerney Cairns Farmer

Wednesday, May 3 Kerney Courvoisier Kerney

Thursday, May 4 Courvoisier

Friday, May 5 Courvoisier

All lectures will be given in the sanctuary of the Co-
lumbia Presbyterian Church.