Bulletin of COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Vol. LIV April, 1961 No. 2 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Entered as second-class matter, May 9, 1928, at the post office at Decatur, Ga., under the act of August 24, 1912. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AT DECATUR, GEORGIA 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 2 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 3 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.