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Yet, fundamentally, their role is more positive. Personal free-
dom and creativity are heightened in response to the deity.
The aesthetic, moral and specifically rational are understood
to have their ground and goal in God himself. No theory of
religious education is complete apart from the acknowledg-
ment that criticism and devotion supplement each other in
mature moral character.

Niels C. Nielsen, Jr.

NOTES

1. Sheldon Smith comments at length on Bushnell’s ideas in his
Faith and Nurture (New York: Scribner’s, 1954).

2. Bernard Iddings Bell, Crisis in Education (New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1948), Chapters 8 and 9.

3. John Dewey, A Common Faith (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1934).

4. J. Paul Williams, What Americans Believe and How They Wor-
ship (New York: Harper, 1954).

5. For example, A. Roy Eckhardt, “The New Look in American
Piety,” The Christian Century, LXXI, 1395-1397, November 17,
1954.

6. Lewis Joseph Sherrill, The Rise of Christian Education (New
York: Macmillan, 1950).

7. Randolph Crump Miller, The Clue to Christian Education (New
York: Scribners, 1950).

8. A. Victor Murray, Education into Religion (New York: Harper,
1953), Chapter IV.

9. Kenneth Irving Brown, Not Minds Alone (New York: Harper,
1954).

10. Nels F. S. Ferré, Christian Faith and Higher Education (New
York: Harper, 1954), Chapters 1-3.

11. Murray, op. cit., Chapter VI.

12. Paul T∏lich, The Courage To Be (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1953).

13. Paul Ramsey, Basic Christian Ethics (New York: Scribner’s, 1950).

14. Lewis Joseph Sherrill, Guilt and Redemption (Richmond, Vir-
ginia: John Knox Press, 1945).

15. Henri Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, transi.
R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton (New York: Holt,
1935).

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