40. The Pilgrim Fathers and Plymouth Colony. I. Separatism in the north of England. Robert Browne and the birth of English Independency. Brownists and Barrowists in English jails and on English gibbets. The Separatist churches at Gainsborough and Scrooby. The merciless proceedings of apparitors and pursuivants. Diffi. culties encountered in the attempt to escape out of England.-II. The Pilgrims in Holland. Their brief stay in Amsterdam. Their secular, religious, and church life in Leyden. Their struggles and sacrifices in a great attempt. "Sundry, weighty and solid reasons" for migration to the New World.-III. The Pilgrims in America. Emigration of the Leyden congregation. The compact in the cabin of the Mayflower. The founding of New Plymouth. Adversity and progress during the first decade. Attempt of nationalism against the Pilgrim church. The Pilgrim Fathers neither Puritans nor persecutors. The great principles for which they stood in church and state. Mj. Autumn Quarter, 1906; 9:30 41. The Puritan Fathers and the New England Theocracy.-English Puritanism under Elizabeth and James. The Puritan settlement of Massachusetts Bay. The formation of the theocratic state. Treatment by the theocracy of Roger Williams, the Antinomians, and the Quakers. Religious life, customs, and morals in New England during the colonial period. The Puritan theocracy in its relations to civil and Mj. Winter Quarter, 1907; 9:30 42. The Struggle for Religious Liberty in Virginia. The Jamestown settlement; character of the colonists; adversity and progress; establishment of the Church of England; stringency of the laws against religious opponents; violent persecution of Baptists, Presbyterians, and Quakers; their successful resistance to Episcopal oppression and tyranny; abolition of the established church; triumph of the principles of religious freedom. Mj. Spring Quarter, 1907; 9:30 CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND ACTIVITY 50. Seminar: Development of Recent Religious Thought.-The Seminar will study historically the influences-philosophical, scientific, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, and political-which have tended to produce the prevailing conceptions respecting God, Man, and the Church. To each member will be assigned one or more topics for special research and report. The discussions will be based on these written reports. Open to candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy who present Church History as primary or secondary subject, and to other advanced students capable of independent investigations. Mj. Autumn Quarter, 1906 PROFESSOR HULBERT 50A. The Transition to Modern Religious Thought. -A study of the influence of modern scientific PROFESSOR JOHNSON Mi discoveries, philosophic thought, and literary criticism upon religious thought. Causes of the modern reconstruction in theology. Mj. Winter Quarter, 1906 51. Religious Movements of the Eighteenth Century. General characteristics of the century, as seen in its political, literary, and philosophical activities. England: Progress of religious liberty; Locke's philosophy; the enlightenment and its significance for religious thought and life; Deism; Wesleyan and Evangelical revivals. France: Persecution of the Huguenots; degradation of the church under Louis XV; Jansenists and Jesuits; introduction of English philosophy and deism, and their development on French soil; illuminism; the Revolution. Ger ment of the medieval universities - Salerno, Bologna, Paris, and Oxford; and the influence of Paris on education. Mj Mj many: Pietism; Moravianism; rationalism; 52. Seminar: Religious Liberty since the Reformation. Mj PROFESSOR HULBERT 53. Seminar: Introduction to the History of Opinion -Christian and Philosophical. Mj ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MONCRIEF 54. Defenses of Christianity in the Ancient and Mediæval Church. Mj PROFESSOR JOHNSON 55. Modern Defenses of Christianity against English, French, and German Unbelief. Mj PROFESSOR JOHNSON 56A. History of Doctrines.—The nature and value of this study. The gradual unfolding of the doctrinal contents of Scripture in the apprehension of Christians. The influence of philosophy on theology. The influence of science, history, and ethics; of current habits of thought; of Christian activity; of heresies. The beginnings of theological thought in the second and third centuries. History of doctrines connected with Soteriology, as follows: the Trinity; the person of Christ; the nature of the union of the divine and the human in Christ; His humiliation; His atonement; His exaltation; election and calling; human ability; regeneration and conversion; justification; sanctification; perseverance. Mj. Spring Quarter, 1905; 9:30 56B. History of Doctrine.-Shorter course. M. First Term, Summer Quarter, 1905; 9:30 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MONCRIEF 58. History of Creeds and Confessions. PROFESSOR JOHNSON 61 B. Christian Art: Painting. The rise of Christian painting. The paintings of the catacombs. Early representations of Christ. The development of painting in the Middle Ages. The lives of the great painters. The various schools of painting. The principal religious paintings of the world. (The course will be profusely illustrated with stereopticon views.) Mj. Summer Quarter, 1904; 8:30 PROFESSOR JOHNSON 62. Christian Missions in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.-In the sixteenth century: religious state of the world at beginning of the century; zeal of the Jesuits and apathy of the Reformers in the cause of Missions; the Missions to Brazil and Lapland. In the seventeenth century: religious characteristics of the century; the German, Dutch, and English interest in Missions. In the eighteenth century: religious characteristics of the century; the missionary move XLVI. THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMILETICS AND PASTORAL DUTIES OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION EDWARD JUDSON, D.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Homiletics and Pastoral Duties. INTRODUCTORY In preaching, as in every art, much waste of time and energy may be avoided by observing the teachings of experience. Modern methods of preaching are a growth of ages. They have been developed according to principles which are clearly ascertained, and are worthy of the closest attention. Scriptural precept and example should be studied, and the sermons of the ablest preachers should be analyzed in the light of accepted principles of discourse. Exercises in the choice of texts, the deduction and statement of themes, the framing and development of plans, and the preaching of sermons should anticipate the demands of the pulpit. The most practical methods of explaining the Scripture should be investigated and applied. Helpful criticism by instructors and classmates should correct errors, recognize and encourage aptitudes, and prepare the student for the unsparing criticism of public life. The relations of pastor and people, and the best methods of pastoral work should be studied so that the young minister may know how to act efficiently at the outset. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 2. Homiletics.—Required work: The study of homiletics pursued along three parallel lines, viz., lectures, collateral reading, and sermon production, the professor and the class working together. The making of the minister: bodily health, mental health, social health, and spiritual health. The making of the sermon: the ideal, method of production, choice of text and context, gathering materials, study of versions, commentaries (both critical and spiritual), historic groundwork, subject, theme, divisions, illustrations, quotations, plagiarism, introduction, application, conclusion. Optional work: A daily social hour with the professor at his rooms, as follows: Tuesday, reading aloud from great preachers; Wednesday, from great poets; Thursday, from the Bible; and Friday, from devotional literature. Two evenings a week, mission work in the city as a homiletical clinic. A required course. Mj. Spring Quarter, 1905 4. Constructive Homiletics: Plans and Sermons.— Mj. Summer Quarter, 1905 evangelistic work and after-meeting, the prayer Mj. Spring Quarter, 1905 XLVII. THE DEPARTMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIOLOGY OFFICER OF INSTRUCTION CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON, A.M., PH.D., D.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Sociology. INTRODUCTORY The purpose of these courses is to provide means for the systematic study of contemporary institutions with which educated leaders of society must deal in daily life, and of those human relations which determine duty and shape character. The city and surrounding country furnish an accessible laboratory for observation whose value is beyond estimate. Sociology may be elected as either a principal or a secondary subject for the degrees of A.M. or Ph.D. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES a) The candidate is subject to the general regulations of the Divinity School respecting degrees. b) For the degree of Bachelor of Divinity the candidate's work in Sociology is elective and may be chosen from Courses 53, 56, 57, 61, 63, 64, 65, 68. Other courses can be accepted only by previous consent of the Department. c) For the Master's degree six (6) Majors are required, with special requirements as to suitable undergraduate preparation. These six Majors must be divided between social philosophy and concrete social institutions, upon a method approved in advance by the instructors. d) For the Doctor's degree, with Sociology as secondary subject, not less than nine (9) Majors will be accepted. Division between philosophy and institutions as under c). e) For the Doctor's degree, with Sociology as principal subject, not less than eighteen (18) Majors will be accepted. Division between philosophy and institutions as under c). In case the chief work of a candidate is philosophical, at least one piece of original concrete investigation will be required before examination for the degree of Ph.D. In case the chief work of a candidate is investigation of concrete relations, a prerequisite will be at least one piece of independent philosophical work. The Seminar, Courses 58, 59, 60, is designed for students who have already had some work in Sociology, and who have in mind some particular concrete subject for independent investigation by means of documents, observation, and interviews. Admission to this Seminar only by permission of instructor. |
