BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES
Special emphasis is laid upon the teaching of popular Bible classes. The best methods of teaching are put into practice. Fifth and sixth term students only are eligible to this class. XIV. Psychology and Sociology The best text book on psychology is the Bible. The Bible sets forth man as he really is, and not as speculative philoso phers imagine him to be. The study of psychology is pursued in many of the classes, and especially in the Personal Work course. Its aim is to give the student a thorough knowledge of man as he actually is by nature, as he is in his personal life, home life, social life, business life, and mental, moral and spir itual li fe, and as he may become by the grace of Goel in Jesus Chri st. The aim of the Institute is that the men and women who go out from it shall not only know their Bibles, but shall have a thorough, practical, working knowledge of men in their relati on to themselves, to one another, to society, to the church, and to Goel . XV. Pedagogy It is not enough to know the truth, one needs to know how to communicate that truth to others. There will be in the Bible Institute, a thorough study, not of mere untried theories of teaching, but of those methods of teaching that have proved effective in personal experience. Such subjects as: The Point of Contact, The Art of Illustration, The Art of Questioning, Gaining and Holding the Confidence of the Class; Encourag ing the Backward, etc., will be carefully studied. XVI. Church History While the Bible is the only text book in the Bible Insti tute, yet a knowledge of the results of Bible teaching in the history of the church, and of the doc trines that have been taught, and the controve rsies that have taken place, and the declines and revivals that have occurred in the hi story of the church, is of great value. This course is designed to famil iarize the student with the great epochs in the hi story of the church from the apostolic period to the period of the Refor mation, and with the great evangelical revivals since then. ( See a lso Course in the Philosophy of the Chri stian Re ligion, page 30.)
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