Theological Education at the Dutch Universities in the Nineteenth Century

2004 ◽  
pp. 390-408
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Dutch Universities

Toward a Critical Theological Education

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald F. Thiemann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
The University

One hundred and seventy years ago, on 17 July 1816, the Society for the Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University was established, thus beginning a process that led to the founding of a “faculty of theology” or Theological Seminary at the University. Undergraduate education at Harvard College had by this time moved quite far from the founders' original concern to provide a literate ministry to the churches. By the beginning of the nineteenth century Harvard men were educated in a broad curriculum oriented more toward liberal education than professional training. So the theological faculty was created in order to provide specialized training for those preparing to enter the Christian ministry

When Regulation Was Religious: College Philanthropy, Antislavery Politics, and Accreditation in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century West

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-93
Author(s):  
John Frederick Bell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
The West ◽  
Iowa College ◽  
College Now ◽  
Knox College ◽  
Sectional Conflict

The college accreditation movement that arose at the turn of the twentieth century had an important antecedent in the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West. Founded in 1843, this nondenominational philanthropy aspired to direct the development of higher education by dispersing eastern funds to Protestant colleges that met its standards for instruction, administration, and piety. For all its ambitions, the Society did not always offer dependable or disinterested supervision. Its relationships with Knox College and Iowa College (now Grinnell) exposed its shortcomings. Coinciding with the rising sectional conflict over slavery, the activities of these institutions forced the regulatory association to engage in the very brand of ecclesiastical politics it had vowed to transcend. This article shows how institutional resistance and church rivalry helped delay the growth of accreditation until the turn of the twentieth century, when secular organizations took up the reins of regulation.

scholarly journals ‘Maranatha’: Kuyper komt eraan! : Van preek tot partijtoespraak: de welsprekendheid van Abraham Kuyper

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Evi Dalmaijer ◽  
Solange Ploeg ◽  
Jaap de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Tradition

Abstract ‘Maranatha’: Kuyper is coming! From sermon to party speech: Abraham Kuyper’s eloquenceIn this article, we present a rhetorical-historical analysis of the speech Maranatha by Dutch politician and former pastor Abraham Kuyper. Kuyper’s style of speech stands out in nineteenth century Dutch political culture, as it is generally more expressive and aimed at the public compared to the pragmatic and legal style of his colleagues in Parliament. Through close reading of the speech Maranatha, we show how Kuyper’s political rhetoric was influenced by various rhetorical elocutio and pathos strategies from pulpit oratory that he learned during his time as a pastor. By reconstructing the professors, academic tradition and homiletic manuals that influenced Kuyper’s theological education, we have determined four main advices for pulpit oratory: 1) choose one main theme that is well known, 2) create a feeling of unity through ‘venturing’ into the public, 3) make sure the speech is understandable to a large public and 4) use stylistic pathos figures in order to move the audience. Kuyper employs all four advices in Maranatha for the purpose of creating a sense of unity within his audience.

Challenge and Change Within German Protestant Theological Education during the Nineteenth Century

1970 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
H. George Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Long Time

In a day when every theological curriculum is under fire and every presupposition of theological education is being questioned, there is both comfort and challenge in the discovery that things have been like that for a long time. Unfortunately, most histories of nineteenthcentury theology treat the great minds of that era in a way that emphasizes abstract relationships rather than concrete situations. Schleiermacher, Baur, Ritschl and the rest often seem to swim in a theological firmament far removed from the knotty problems of curriculum, faculty freedom, and social responsibility which beset contemporary theologians.

Sectarianism versus Ecumenism: the Impact on British Churches of the Missionary Movement to India, c. 1800–1860

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Piggin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
British Society ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact

In October 1826, an impassioned letter appeared in The Times, written by an outraged correspondent whose house had been entered unceremoniously by two offensive females who demanded first a donation towards the construction of a missionary training college and then a justification of his refusal to subscribe. He fulminated against the triumphalism of voluntary religious societies: ‘It seems “to grow by what it feeds on”’ The first half of the nineteenth century in Britain was certainly an age of ‘evangelical aggression’, and probably the modern missionary movement was making an impression on British society far deeper than it made on such countries as India and Africa, to which missionaries were sent. Missionary enthusiasm appears to have increased lay giving for home missions as well as foreign missions; it probably stimulated interest in home missions and increased the number of candidates for the ministry; it almost certainly provided a fillip to theological education; it reinforced the already existing tendency to express piety in activity rather than quiescence; it helped to bury fatalistic and deterministic theological systems; it appears to have appealed, like the later temperance movement, to all classes of society; and (perhaps related to the last claim) it declared war on denominational bigotry.

Theological Education At the Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth Century: Four Professors On Their Ideal of the Curriculum

2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
F.G.M. Broeyer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Academic Teaching ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
High Level ◽  
Dutch Universities ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractDuring the seventeenth century the academic teaching of theology in the Dutch Republic was on a high level. The universities had first-rate professors at their disposal for the subjects taught at the time. In this article some treatises on theological education are discussed. The authors are the professors Antonius Walaeus, Gisbertus Voetius, Franciscus Burman, and Samuel Maresius. Walaeus, Voetius, and Burman wrote about the content of the curriculum and the ideal way of studying theology. They differ in outlook. Burman even advocates a critical attitude based upon a Cartesian principle. Precisely because of unorthodox ideas gaining ground Maresius voiced somber reflections on an assumed decline of the Dutch faculties of theology.

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