Page 4 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 26, 1957
New Testament Often Offers Strange Picture
"The general picture which the New Testament offers is a strange one to anyone with a contemporary outlook," Dr. John Macquarie of the University of Glascow, Scotland, said Monday in a lecture sponsored by the philosophy department.
Dr. Macquarrie, a lecturer on systematic theology, spoke on "Bultmann's Existential Approach to Theology." Rulaldholm Bultmann, professor emeritus at the University of Marburg, Germany, is one of the contemporary theologists to be affected by existentialist thinking.
"The problems raised by him are real problems and their solution a matter of urgency if the Christian faith is to maintain its claims in the modern age." Dr. Macquarie said.
Remote from Modern World He pointed out that the ideas and events portrayed in the New Testament are remote from our modern world, and they no longer seem to be meaningful or relevant.
"We today have a different picture of the world from that which belonged to the writers of the New Testament," he said. "Their ideas and ways of speaking are so foreign to us because they come out of a completely different world from our world."
Dr. Macquarrie said that Bultmann's view of the nature of myth is closely connected with this theory of the interpretation.
"A myth usually has the form of an imaginative story, but its meaning is not to be found in any literal interpretation of it as a record of actually happening," he said. "According to Bultmann, the meaning is to be found through existential interpretation, in the self-understanding to which the myth gives expression."
"If we ask why self-understanding should be expressed in mythical form, there are two answers that can be given. One answer is that myth-making belongs especially to the childhood of the race. The other answer is that a myth has some permanent value in it, and tends to survive even in a more sophisticated age." Dr. Macquarrie said.
The Power of a Myth
The Power of a Myth That is because the concrete picture which the myth presents has more power to move men than an abstract presentation of the ideas behind the myth, he pointed out.
Orthodox Christians sometimes complain that Bultmann has taken away these historical foundations on which Christianity has always been supposed to rest, Dr. Macquarrie continued.
Faculty Forum To Hear Gorton
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will talk to the Faculty Forum about the new music and dramatic arts building at noon Wednesday in the English Room. Student Union.
Construction of the building is almost completed, but additional inside furnishings remain to be added, including three practice organs, state equipment and lighting and seating facilities of the recital hall.
A 20-minute question-and-answer session will be held after the talk.
4 To Speak On Eisenhower Plans
Two professors and two students will discuss the Eisenhower Doctrine at a Collegiate Council of the United Nations meeting at 8 tonight in the Pine Room, Student Union.
H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, will give his views on the doctrine. Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, will present some alternatives to better the doctrine.
Bob Kimball, Kansas City, Kan. senior, will talk on the favorable points, and Dick Stephenson, Augusta junior, will present opposing ideas.
Class Of '17 To Plan Reunion
The class of 1917 will discuss plans for its 40th reunion at 3 p. m. Sunday in the alumni office. J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages, is chairman of the group.
"Bultmann is exhibiting for us the true existential historicity of these events, in virtue of which it is alone possible for them to be of religious significance.
"To the more serious charge that he is dissolving Christianity in existential philosophy, Bultmann has returned a decided denial. He thinks there is a radical difference between a religion and a philosophy. A philosophy may set before us the concept of a way of life, but it may be that through moral weakness we will be unable to realize it. A religion, on the other hand, supplies a dynamic by which a man can realize the way of life which it sets before him," Dr. Macquarrie said.
The KU Chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will sponsor a senior inspection trip to Kansas City starting at 7:30 a. m. Tuesday, April 9.
Engineers To Tour K.C.
The all-day tour will include the Santa Fe Railway shop, the Wilcox Co., and the Midwest Research Institute. Tuesday evening the Kansas City section of the Institute of Radio Engineers will sponsor a dinner for the KU seniors.
The dinner program will feature the student paper winners from KU, K-State, and either the University of Missouri or the University of Arkansas.
Carl Pingry, Pittsburgh senior, will present his paper, "Automatic Telephone Dialing," that won first place in the KU contest.
Phys Ed Group Elects
Gienn Swengros, Lawrence junior, has been elected president of Phi Epsilon Kappa, professional physical education fraternity. Others elected were John Merriam, Marysville senior, vice president; Verlyn Schmidt, Hays junior, secretary; Bernard Gay, Gardner junior, treasurer and Harry Solter, Eugene, Ore., senior, sergeant at arms.
A journalism faculty member old enough to have attended his 25th college class reunion last year was showing some of his students snapshots of him taken when he was a college junior.
Just How Old Is He, Anyway?
"This is to prove to you," he said, "that contrary to popular Journalism School opinion, I was a young man once myself."
A senior from Texas (via Goodland) studied the snapshots carefully.
"These are good photos," he said. "They were taken by Mathew Brady, weren't they?"
Civil Service Openings To Be Explained
A representative of the Civil Service Commission is on the campus today to answer questions about civil service.
The first two-wheeler bicycle was built in Hartford, Conn. in 1877.
The representative will talk on "How to Measure a Personnel Program" at 7:30 p.m. in 1 Strong Annex E.
Ad Groups Tour Firms
Members of Gamma Alpha Chi $ \mathrm{H i} $ honorary advertising society for women, and Alpha Delta Sigma professional advertising society, took their annual joint field trip to Kansas City. Mo. Thursday.
The students visited KMBC-TV and were guests of Bee Johnson's "Happy Home" television show.
Following the television tour, the groups visited Potts-Woodbury Advertising Co. Dave Cleveland, 1956 KU graduate, took them on a tour of the agency.
In the evening, members of the groups were dinner guests of the Advertising Round Table of the Advertising Sales Executives Club of Kansas City.
In the United States this year the average person will eat nearly eight pounds of cheese.
"A big company works for me..."
"I began working on a training program for General Electric in the summer of '52. Right now, I'm 'Employee and Plant Community Relations Manager' of my company's new plant in Burlington, Iowa. One of the advantages I found in working for a big company such as General Electric is that, because of its size, it is able to give me, and other college-graduate employees like me, a wide variety of training and experience in any one of 159 plants all over the country. Through an extensive on-the-job training program, it is providing me with the opportunity to become one of the top men in my field, and I know that as long as I apply myself to each job, I'll keep moving up. The way I look at it, General Electric is helping me help myself. That's why I say I'm working for a big company, but a big company works for me, too."
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