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Drawing of Benjamin E. Mays, circa 1960
No full textA drawing of Benjamin E. Mays. Written on recto: Presented to Dr. Benjamin E. Mays By Class Historian: Ernest W. Wright for Dr. May's first Morehouse graduating class- 1941
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Banquet Speech, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays presentation, History of Black Churches. C.S. Rooks
No full textThis recording features a presentation by Benjamin E. Mays, featuring an explanation on the role of the Black Church in the liberation process in America. The presentation is taken over by Charles Shelby Rooks and James Cone after Mays has some difficulty. Each proceeds to read about the organization of the Black church and the help given by whites to the efforts of the Black church.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Benjamin E. Mays, August 9, 1951
No full textBenjamin E. Mays and his wife stand in front of a cake on their 25th wedding anniversary. Written on verso: The ice tea spoon you sent are so nice - we saved you the trouble and exchanged them for two that matched our set.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
An exploratory study of the creation of a group psychotherapy training clinic
No full textMany graduate schools do not have extensive histories of offering graduate training in group psychotherapy. In the past several years, however, there has been an initiative at a graduate school in psychology at a large research university in the Northeast, led by the cooperative efforts of interested graduate students, professors, school administrators, and supervising psychologists in the community, to originate and implement a program of graduate training in group psychotherapy, named Group Psychotherapy Services (GPS). A qualitative study of the process by which this program came to creation is presented here. The goals of this study are to understand the roles of the individuals involved, the particular successes and failures of the program’s creation, and the elements critical to its ongoing and future existence. Utilized in this paper are semi-structured interviews with the involved students, faculty, and supervisors, analysis of these interviews through empirically supported qualitative research methodology, and an exploration of the important themes and conclusions drawn from this analysis, in combination with relevant observations from the author’s perspective as participant observer in the process. The significant themes that arose from the interview data touched on resistance to group psychotherapy, the nature of previous attempts to institute more extensive training in group at this institution, the experience of graduate students in the program development process, the varied roles played by school administrators, the experience of clinical supervisors, and the ways in which the future continuity of the program is being planned. The author’s own observations about the similarities between the development of GPS and the creation of a psychotherapy group according to Yalom’s (2005) early stages of group development are offered. A brief model for the expansion of group psychotherapy training services at similar institutions is proposed.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical referencesby Benjamin W. Muelle
APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, March 26, 1973
No full textBenjamin E. Mays and others at an APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet. Written on verso: APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, Stouffer's Atlanta [?], 7 p.m. March 26, 1973, L to R: President Waights Henry, Lagrange College, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Mayor Sam Massell. Benjamin E. Mays attends APUCG High Education Banquet
James Farmer, Benjamin Hooks, and Unidentified Man, circa 1965
No full textBenjamin Hooks (in middle) is shown holding James Farmer's arm (on the left) alongside an unidentified man in front of a building.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Benjamin E. Mays Papers
No full textBenjamin Elijah Mays was born August 1, 1894 in Ninety Six, South Carolina. After graduating high school, he spent one year at Virginia Union University before moving to Maine to attend Bates College, where he received his BA. He then went to the University of Chicago for his M.A. and his Ph.D. While at the University of Chicago, Mays worked as a Pullman Porter and a student assistant to Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church. While finishing his doctorate, Mays published The Negro's Church, the first sociological study on the Black church, with Joseph Nicholson. He became dean of the School of Religion at Howard University in 1934. In 1940, Mays moved to Atlanta to become the president of Morehouse College. Martin Luther King Jr. was Mays' most famous student at Morehouse. The two remained close until King's death in 1968 and Mays delivered the eulogy at his funeral. Mays left Morehouse College in 1967. In 1969, Mays ran for the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education. While on the board, Mays oversaw the peaceful desegregation of the Atlanta Public Schools. He served on the board until 1981, and served as the president of the board between 1970 and 1981.
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La percezione dell\u27alterità dal gioco della riflessione in W. Benjamin al sentimento del sublime in Th. W. Adorno
Full text linkL’autore sostiene che le riflessioni estetiche di W. Benjamin e Th. W. Adorno si intrecciano strettamente nella configurazione di una teoria estetica intessuta di categorie estetiche fondamentali quali «gioco» e «sublime». Il saggio intende mostrare la misura in cui tale relazione può essere sostenuta analizzando il fine estetico della teoria dell’esperienza di Benjamin e le personali riflessioni di Adorno sulla sua opera. Il saggio, inoltre, interroga, da un lato, il modo in cui il gioco dialoga sia con l’esperienza della modernità nel XIX secolo, come Benjamin mostra, sia con l’esperienza estetica dell’opera d’arte, come Adorno illustra; dall’altro, appura che il sublime agisce in funzione di istanza oggettiva accorciando la distanza tra il soggetto e l’alterità. Mediante l’analisi del fruttuoso incontro di tali categorie, l’autore afferma che Benjamin e Adorno intraprendono la costituzione di una teoria estetica che abbraccia la decadenza dell’aura, rinnovata dal gioco, e la ricostituzione dell’apparenza, sancita dal sentimento del sublime, riconoscendo la loro comune intenzione. Tale cornice si trova all’interno del ripensamento critico del rapporto tra il soggetto estetico e l’oggettività in quanto traslato nel raffronto tra il gioco, lo sfondo della riflessione soggettiva, ed il sentimento del sublime, che accerta l’intreccio di sensibilità e ragione.The author argues that the aesthetic reflections of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are mutually intertwined as they sketch out an aesthetic theory portrayed by the underlying notions of “play” and “sublime”. The essay shows the extent to which this relationship may be upheld by enquiring into the aesthetic end of Benjamin’s theory of experience and the personal reflections of Adorno on his oeuvre. Further, the essay examines, on the one hand, how play may dialogue both with the modern experience of the XIX century, as Benjamin expounds, and with the aesthetic experience of artworks, as Adorno elucidates, and, on the other hand, establishes that the sublime acts as objective facet by shortening the distance between subject and otherness. By their fruitful encounter, the author claims that Benjamin and Adorno agree on a framework of aesthetic theory encompassing the decadence of aura, renewed by play, and the recovery of appearance, ascertained by the feeling of the sublime, by acknowledging their common purport. This framework is set within a critical reshaping of the interplay between aesthetic subject and objectivity as it hinges on the relationship between play, i.e. the setting of subjective reflection, and the feeling of the sublime, which endorses the intertwinement of sensibility and reason
Wyznaczać granice na nowo – Benjamin Fundoianu w kręgu pisarzy środkowoeuropejskich. Zarys problematyki
No full textThe main aim of the study is to attempt a general interpretation of some selected works of Benjamin Fundoianu (1898–1944) – a poet, critic, existentialist, philosopher and an avant-garde film director of Jewish Romanian origin, in the context of his potential belonging to Central-European culture. The author of the article tries to grasp the most important determinantsof the complicated artistic biography of the writer who endeavoured to construct his own identity out of the elements of Judaic philosophical reflection, Central-European tradition and Western intellectual ethos. The considerations are based on a classification introduced by Aleksander Fiut according to whom there are three categories which especiallymark out Central European literature: unaccepted peripherality, a sense of shifty borders and problematic identity.Artykuł nie zawiera abstraktu w języku polski
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