1942-1943 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES 47 13-14. Homiletics Advanced Homiletics. Practice in the preparation and delivery of sermons. One hour a week throughout the year. Required for candi– dates of the Gospel Ministry. Religion: Professors McChesney and J urkat 2. General Course in Missions The problems, possibilities, means and obligations of evangelizing the world and the motives, aims, and methods of the foreign mis– sionary. Elective. Two hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. Required of Seminary students. 5-6. Religious Education A study of Pedagogy, History, Curricula, Principles, Organization, and Administration of Religious Education. Three hours throughout the year. 7-8. Biblical Theology A study of the facts of revelation in the Scriptures and the de– velopment of doctrines of the Bible. Two hours a week throughout the year. Required of candidates for the Gospel Ministry. 9-10. Systematic Theology The study of the science of God and of the relations between God and the universe. Three hours a week for three years. Required of all candidates for the Gospel Ministry. 11-12. Pastoral Theology A study of the character and conduct of ministers of the Gospel and their relations to the church in particular and general. Two hours a week throughout the year. Required of candidates for the Ministry of the Gospel. 13-14. Church Government A study of church law and its application to members, congrega– tions, and the larger organizations of the Church. One hour a week throughout the year. Required of all candidates for the ministry. Sociology: Professor Steele 1. Principles of Sociology Introductory course. Make up of society considered; universal structure and functions of social life stressed; "the individual makes the group and the group makes the individual." Three hours a week, one semester. Required. 2. Social Pathology Maladjustments of society interpreted in terms of sociological theory. Theory and actuality in social problems. Three hours a week, one semester.