Lectures on a Historians View of the Church and Theological Education in America, June 14, 1960

Taylor, Charles L. The Church and Theological Education in Europe; Sidney Mead, A Historical View of Theological Education in America (June 14-16, 1960)

1960-06-14

1960-1969

Charles L. Taylor delivers a lecture on the Church and theological education in Europe. In his lecture he compares and contrasts theological education in Europe and the United States. Additionally, Sidney Mead gives a lecture on theological education and the view of a historian. In the lecture he discusses the problem of ambiguity within Church history in the United States.

African Americans--Religion
Education--Religion
Theology--Study and teaching
Theological seminaries
Lectures and lecturing

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Isaac R. Clark Memorial Collection

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:117

01:33:26

00:00:07 Charles L. Taylor introduces his title The Church and Theological Education in Europe: An Appreciation. Talks about how he was sent to Europe to get an understanding of theological education there, and how it could help in America.
00:04:25 Talks about preaching in Europe and contribution of Christians make to the men of science, and the importance of science.
00:13:11 Talks about minsters being civil servants.
00:21:11 Talks about European students and prophetic voice and power. Also talks about the academic controls in Europe.
00:28:00 Talks about the practicality of American university and theological schools.
00:29:00 Talks about Dean Miller and the preparation of minsters.
00:42:14 Talks about associations between the work of theological education in Europe and that in the United States.
00:46:43 Ends lecture.
00:47:01 Unidentified man talks about privilege it is to introduce Sidney Mead.
00:48:02 Introduces Sidney Mead and his paper, A Historical View of the Church and Theological Education in America.
00:48:16 Sidney Mead thanks the unidentified man talks about story of theological education in America.
00:49:50 Talks about how he has abandoned and shifted from the published title A Historical View of the Church and Theological Education to A Historians View of the Church and Theological Education in America. His intention is to make a few observations from a historian point of view.
00:50:36 Talks about being a historian and encountering the problem of the ambiguous position of American Church History.
00:58:18 Talks about how as American Church Historian he feels he stands in a no mans land between seminary and university.
01:05:37 Talks about the tendencies in theological revival of the day.
01:08:32 Talks about how any consideration of the church in the United States is brought up sharply against the multiplicity of independent organized Christian religious groups. This baffles historians.
01:19:04 Talks about the internal conflict of denominations and basic principles and competitions among religious groups.
01:26:27 Talks about how evangelicalism was swamped in a tidal wave ecclesiastical or organizational sectarianism.
01:33:18 Ends lecture.
01:33:26 Audio ends.

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