Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 53, number 3, October 1960

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MINISTERS' WEEK
COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

October 31 -November 4, 1960

PROGRAM FOR MINISTERS' WEEK

Columbia Theological Seminary is pleased to an-
nounce the program for its annual Ministers Week
which is to be held October 31-November 4, 1960. Dr.
Eugene A Nida. Translations Secretary of the Amer-
ican Bible Society, is to deliver the lectures upon the
Thomas A. Smyth Foundation for 1960 and has chosen
as his subject Communication of the Christian Faith.
Dr Wallace M. Alston, President of Agnes Scott Col-
lege is to be the Alumni Lecturer and has announced
that' he will discuss The Minister ami Contemporary
Literary Figures. Dr. Donald G. Miller, Professor of
New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond, Va. will be the guest preacher at morning
services throughout the week.

The seminary is particularly pleased that Dr. Marion
A Boggs Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
Little Rock Arkansas, and Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. has agreed
to address the student body and visiting ministers at
a convocation on Wednesday morning, November 2, at
9:30 o'clock.

All addresses during the week will be delivered in
the Columbia Presbyterian Church and the general
public is invited to attend. Brief biographical sketches
of the lecturers are printed herewith.

SMYTH LECTURER
Rev. Eugene A. Nida, Ph.D.

Eugene Albert Nida was born in Oklahoma City,
Okla His A.B. was earned at the University of Cali-
fornia in Los Angeles. He has also earned the M.A.
degree from the University of Southern California
and a PhD. in linguistics from the University of
Michigan He is an ordained minister of the American
Baptist Convention and was formerly a missionary of
that church. From 1937 to 1953 he was professor of
Linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics of
the University of Oklahoma and since 1943 he has been
secretary of the Translations Department of the Amer-
ican Bible Society. He is a member of the Linguistic
Society of America and of the American Anthropolo-
gical Association.

Dr Nida is one of the foremost linguists in the
United States, specializing in the study of the lan-
guages and dialects of primitive people, for many ot
whom no printed part of the Bible has yet appeared.
His work includes field surveys, linguistic research
the checking of manuscripts of new translations, and
the writing of books and articles on languages, anthro-
pology, and the science of meaning. In order to carry
on these many phases of the Translation Department
work Dr. Nida has traveled to more than 50 countries
in Europe. Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where he
has worked with translators on linguistic problems ot
more than 120 different languages.

Dr Nida is the author of a number of books on
linguistics and translation such as Linguistic Inter-
ludes, published by the Summer Institute of Linguis-
tics. Morphology, from the press of the University ot

Michigan, Bible Translating, published in 1947 by the
American Bible Society, and Learning a Foreign Lan-
guage, published by the Division of Foreign Missions
of the National Christian Council. His book, God's Word
in Mans Language, the dramatic story of translating
the Bible into more than one thousand languages, was
published by Harper and Brothers in 1952 and was
selected as one of the fifty best religious books of that
year. Customs and Cultures: Anthropology For Chris-
tian Missions, published in September 1954 by Harper
& Brothers, is a fascinating account of strange cus-
toms and little-known cultures all in the light of the
program of Christian missions throughout the world.
With William A. Smalley he is author of Introducing
Animism, and in September of this year Harpers pub-
lished his latest book, Message and Mission.

ALUMNI LECTURER
Rev. Wallace M. Alston, Th. D., D. D., LL. D.

Wallace McPherson Alston was born in Decatur,
Georgia, and received his undergraduate education at
Emory University where he earned B.A. and M.A.
degrees He attended Columbia Theological Seminary
where he received his B.D. degree and served as in-
structor in New Testament for two years. He has done
graduate study at Transylvania University (Lexing-
ton Ky ), the University of Chicago, and Union Semi-
nary in Richmond, Va. From the latter institution he
holds Th.M. and Th.D. degrees. He had also been
awarded the D.D. by Hampden-Sydney College and
the LL.D. by Davis and Elkins College.

Dr Alston has served the church as pastor of Rock
Spring Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, the Maxwell
Street Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Ky., the
First Presbyterian Church of Charleston, West Vir-
ginia and the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church of At-
lanta' In addition he was for a time (1935-38) Di-
rector of Youth Work for the Presbyterian Committee
of Religious Education, and in 1948 began his service
at Agnes Scott College as Vice President, later to be
inaugurated (1951) as the third President in the his-
tory of the college.

Dr Alston is the Author of The Throne Among
the Shadows and Break Up the Night. He has also
provided a series of studies on the Psalms for the
Women of the Church which is being revised.

GUEST PREACHER
Rev. Donald G. Miller, Ph. D.

Donald George Miller is a native of Braddock, Pa.
He attended Greenville College of Illinois where he
received his A.B. degree. From Biblical Seminary in
New York he has earned the S.T.B. and S.T.M. de-
crees and from New York University he has earned
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He has also done graduate
work at Montpelier Seminary in France.

He began his ministry in the Pittsburgh Conference
of the Free Methodist Church of North America, and
served as professor at Pyengyang Foreign School in

Korea, as professor at Biblical Seminary in New York
and as a professor of the Theological Seminary of the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Gettysburg, Pa. He was ordained by the Baltimore
Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America to serve the Highland Presbyterian
Church of Street, Maryland; later he served as as-
sistant pastor of the Highland Park Church of Dallas,
Texas. From this latter service he returned to teaching
and to his present post as Walter H. Robertson, Pro-
fessor of New Testament at Union Theological Semi-
nary in Richmond, Va.

Dr. Miller is author of several volumes including
Conqueror in Chains, a story of the apostle Paul, The
Nature and Mission of the Church, Fire in Thy Mouth,
The Way to Biblical Preaching, and the commentary
on Luke in the Layman's Bible Commentary. He is
also co-editor of Tools for Bible Study, a series of
studies published originally for INTERPRETATION
of which he is co-editor.

Dr. Miller is guest jointly of Columbia Theological
Seminary and of the Morningside Presbyterian Church
of Atlanta. He will preach at that church on Sunday,
October 30, and on each evening during the week.

SCHEDULE OF LECTURERS DURING
MINISTERS' WEEK

9:30 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 4:00 P.M. S:00 P.M.

Monday, Oct. 31

Nida

Tuesday, Nov. 1

Alston

Miller

Nida

Wednesday, Nov. 2

Boggs

Miller Alston

Nida

Thursday, Nov. 3

Alston

Miller

Nida

Friday, Nov. 4

Alston

Miller

Nida

Subjects:

Dr. Eugene A. Nida:

Communication of the Christian Faith

1 . The Nature of Communication

2. Religion as Communication

3. Communication within Society

4. The Dynamics of Communication

5. Communication Human and Divine

Dr. Wallace M. Alston:

The Minister and Contemporary Literary Figures.

1 . The Minister Looks at T. S. Eliot

2. The Minister Looks at William Faulkner

3. The Minister Looks at Albert Camus

4. The Minister Looks at Robert Frost

Dr. Donald G. Miller:

Sermon Topics not Announced.