Hugh Hartshorne

GROWTH IN RELIGION

This paper was read by Hugh Hartshorne at the Oberlin Convention of the Religious Education Association, April 24,1939. It is reprinted from the July‐September 1.939 issue of RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

THE CHARACTER EDUCATION INQUIRY, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

∗From an address by Dr. Hartshorne at the Chicago Convention of the Religious Education Association, 1937.

IDEALS AND METHODS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR THE COMING WORLD ORDER∗: A SYMPOSIUM

∗ The members of the Council of Religious Education were invited to express their views on the principles and programs of religious education in the light of the present world crisis and in view of coming social and political changes.

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND THE CHURCHES 1

1Professor Hugh Hartshorne, who retired in June 1954, gave this paper as the Henry B. Wright Lecture at the Yale Divinity School Convocation, April 20‐22, 1954. The Editorial Committee welcomes the opportunity to print this article of our friend, Hugh Hartshorne. We join his many friends in congratulating him upon his many years of service, his stimulating contributions to religious education and we wish him many years of continued leadership

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION?∗: Bluff

∗Editors Note: The Editor invited a number of thoughtful members of the Association to answer this question: “What can we really expect from the Cleveland meetings?” Their answers are given here, just as they came to the desk.

Character in the Schools

This survey makes suggestions for the nurture of the spiritual life, the progressive Christianization of the social order, increasing economic resources, a larger use of Indian leadership, and a better co-ordination of effort. Leadership, at present entirely inadequate, manifestly must be developed and reinforced. The converts are so desperately poor that they lack both means and outlook to insure adequate growth without outside help. While the primacy of the spiritual aim in approaching these depressed peoples is asserted, ministry to temporal needs from the beginning is advised. In these movements we see an approach to Christ in contrast to the individualistic way of the West; for these depressed classes the approach is a corporate coming. This protects them from social dislocation, reduces the dangers of westernization, and is in accord with the caste consciousness of India.

A Few Principles of Character Education

∗Based on an address given 3t the First Annual Conference of the New England (Section of the Religious Education Association, held in Cambridge, Mass., May 1st and 2nd, 1929.

Research in Curriculum Construction

*Four papers presented at the meeting of the Research Professional Advisory Section of the International Council of Religious Education, at its meeting in Chicago on February 8th.

WORSHIP IN CONNECTION WITH WEEK‐DAY RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION∗

∗ See digest of preliminary investigations, by W. S. Athearn, p. 136 in Religious Education for April, 1916.

GETTING RESULTS IN MODERN SUNDAY SCHOOLS THROUGH GRADED LESSONS

graduation; after-graduation career. If the pupil removes, does the record show that he has been introduced into another school? So, also, the career of each teacher and officer. Do the records show the actual state of the school—the live enrolment, attendance by sex and grade each Sunday, lateness by grade and sex each Sunday, all organizations and activities, attendance and promptness of teachers, social and other events, confirmations, detailed account of income and expenditures? How often and to whom does each officer and teacher render a report of his work ? What is done with these reports ? Is there an annual exhibit? What is included in it? What persons, and how many of them, see it? What is the method of keeping the records? Loose leaf system? Card catalogue system? Are the records accurate, orderly, and convenient? Conclusions. In the light of these data, what are the strong points of this school? The weak points? What can be done to improve it within the limits of its available resources in men and money ?