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Staley lecturer discusses hymns
By CURTIS POWELL
Optimist staff
Dr. Darryl Tippens chairman of the
language and literature diviiion of
Oklahoma Christian College in
Oklahoma City began the annual
Staley Distinguished Chtittian
Scholar Lecture Program Wednes-
day with the lecture titled "A
Reading of 'The Spacious
Firmament.' "
This year's series of lectures is titl-
ed "The Modern Christian and Ar-
tistic Endeavor." The lectures focus-
on the Christian's relationship bet-
ween his faith and the music
literature and movies he enjoys. Tip-
pens' initial lecture involved the
Christian and the hymn.
Tippens discussed the use of
hymns in recent movies and the feel
ings that the hymns inspired. The
combination of movies and hymns
like "Placet in the Heart" and the
hymn "Blessed Assurance" and
the film "Trip to Bountiful" and the
use of the hymn "Jesus is Calling" is
a recurring theme said Tippens.
"Hymns can be one of two
things" said Tippens. "They are
either an occasion for utter boredom
or a contact with God."
The reason for boredom may stem
from familiarity with a song after
having sung it over and over again
outdated meanings of words or the
use of unknown or unfamiliar
hymns said Tippens.
The body of Tippens' lecture was
an explanation of the hymn "The
Spacious Firmament on High." The
lyrics of the hymn were written in
1812 by Joseph Addison a 19th cen
tury dramatist poet and parliament
member. Addison wrote the lyrics
based on Psalm 19:1-6.
Addison wrote the hymn during
the "Age of Reason'' or "The
Enlightenment" era in an attempt to
prove science did not rule out the ex-
istence of God said Tippens.
During a time when men like Issac
Newton and John Locke were trying
to disprove the existence God Ad-
dison was using the idea of
theleological thinking to infer the ex-
istence of a creator through His the
creator's works said Tippens.
He went on to define the words of
the hymn in which the meaning or
usage has changed from the early
19th century to the present. Tippens
also defined the meanings of each
verse.
Tippens a 1968 graduate of OCC
received both his master's and his
doctorate from Louisiana State
University. His post-doctoral work
has included fellowships at Johns
Hopkins University the University
of Chicago and the University of
Kansas.
The Staley "Distinguished Scholar
Series is a project of the Thomas F.
Staley Foundation of New York.
The Foundation is committed to the
idea that the "message of the Chris-
tian Gospel when proclaimed in it's
historic fullness is contemporary
relevant and meaningful to every
generation." The Foundation seeks
to bring Christian scholars to college
and university campuses to obtain
that end.
The lecture series will conclude
with a brown bag lunch at noon Friday.
Dr. Darryl Tippens
Three religious poets subject of paper
By JULIE F1TZPATRICK
Friday News Editor
Dr. Chris Willerton professor of
English will present a paper on con-
temporary poets to the Conference
on Christianity and Literature in
Arkadelphia Ark. Saturday.
The CCL is a nationwide scholar-
ly organization dedicated to explor-
ing the relationships between Chris
tianity and literature.
The paper is titled "Poets at the
Spirit's Frontier: Three Contem-
porary Poets of the South-Central
Region."
The work centers on three poets
from the southwest region: Walter
McDonald from Texas Diane Glan-
cy from Oklahoma and Miller
Williams from Arkansas.
The theme for the conference b
the frontier said Willerton. The
conference links the celebration of
the Texas and Arkansas ses-
quicentennials to the recognition of
fine contemporary poets he said.
"The purpose of the paper is to
call attention to the fine writers in
this region" said Willerton. Many
readers are unaware of the talented
people that live around them he
said.
These three poets are intriguing
people said Willerton. "I chose
them because of the prominence of
religion in their poetry."
McDonald the only nationally-
known poet who is a member of the
Church of Christ has over 400
poems in print said Willerton. He
has been a guest speaker at ACU.
"Glancy is the most exotic" said
Willerton. Her poetry expresses an
interest in the American Indian.
Glancy will speak at ACU Feb.
13.
"Williams is the most ironic of the
three" said Willerton. He con-
sistently questions religion in his
poetry he said.
Willerton sent a proposal of his
paper to the CCL during the spring.
He received an official invitation to
compose the paper in June.
Nichols
studies
turtles
Dr. James Nichols professor of
biology is conducting experiments
involving the hearts of turtles that
may one day have an affect on our
knowledge of the human circulatory
system.
The scries of experiments is
designed to help determine the af-
fects of the hormone parathyroid on
the hearts of turtles.
Parathyroid is a hormone abouM
which little is known. Vf
"We know.some of what it does
it controls the body's balance of
calcium but recently interest has
risen about it's role in the circulatory
system" Nichols said.
Nichols has. chosen to work with
the turtle hearts for two reasons the
first being that it would be impossi-
ble to work with human hearts. The
second is the results of experiments
with laboratory animals are often ap-
plicable to research being done with
humans.
Nichols has been conducting ex-
periments in collaboration with B
colleague at the University of Alber
ta in Canada for the past eighteen
months.
The objectiof these experiments is
to compare beating rate and strength
of contractions of a turtle's heart
without the hormone to that of a tur-
tle which has the hormone.
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