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University Daily Kansan Monday. November 2. 1959
Theologian Affirms Divinity of Christ
An associate professor of theology said last night that "whether we like it or not, the Christian faith has affirmed that, in some manner or other, Jesus Christ was divine."
E. Dale Dunlap, a former dean of Southwestern College in Winfield and theologian at the National Methodist Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., spoke to about 100 Methodist students at the Wesley Foundation.
He said:
"The Christian faith affirms that God dwells, works, and acts in us because He lived and created in Jesus Christ all goodness in human life."
He explained that the Christian faith does not make Christ a veneration of idolatry, but that Christ was a reflection of what God is like.
"Without Jesus Christ, are you really sure you know what you are talking about when you talk about God? You can't start with God and ask, 'Is this the human form of the being that created us?'"
Prof. Dunlap pointed out that God had created Christ as an image of what man should be.
He explained:
"Christ is the source of our knowledge — not a transmitting agent."
Prof. Dunlap said that Christ was placed on earth because human beings are limited by the terms of the human mind and human experience in acquiring knowledge.
"God created man as a genuine being with the power to say 'yea' and 'may', and God respects man's integrity as a free being."
He explained that human beings are both free and determined, but at the same time, not free and not determined.
"You know some decisions are yours, but in other experiences you know right well you have been forced into the situation. You are persons of a tension between these two basic motives of reality."
Prof. Dunlap said a Christian has two prongs on which he hangs his
affirmation of Jesus as the Son of God: Jesus was a man, and Jesus was more than any man that human beings had ever known or experienced before.
Prof. Dunlap said:
"Jesus is not man becoming God, but God taking the initiative to show himself to man. Here is man as God created him to be — with the character, nature, will, and purpose. Jesus is a reflection of what God is like. Jesus is what God means by man."
Camera Concerti Performs Tonight
A unique chamber orchestra will present the first concert in KU's chamber music series at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Camera Concerti is unusual it its instrumentation of 14 winds and strings because it features a French horn and viola as solo instruments.
Joseph Eger, founder and director of the Camera Concerti, will be the French horn soloist. Karen Tuttle will play solo viola as a substitute for Walter Trampler, who had to cancel his performance because of illness in his family.
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The deadline for submitting entries for house decorations for homecoming has been extended to 5 p.m., Nov. 6.
House Decorations Deadline Extended
The house decorations committee said the date was extended to give houses entered in the Student Union Activities Carnival a chance to make plans for the homecoming.
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