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Drew University Archives
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Michalson, Carl.

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Carl Michalson Papers, 1938-1986 \ [Bulk 1945-1965\]

Abstract
Carl Donald Michalson started as an instructor in the Drew Theological School in 1943 and was the Andrew V. Stout Professor of Systematic Theology from 1959 until his tragic death in an airplane crash on November 8, 1965. This collection documents his lectures and publications research, including course outlines and bibliographies, correspondence, professional papers, photographs, sermons, published articles, recorded class lectures, and his student notebooks and papers from Drew Theological Seminary and Yale University.

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Access and Use

Access
The Carl Michalson Papers are available for research.

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Michalson's works as well as books that he owned and annotated can be searched using the online library catalog: https://catalogLibraryCat.drew.edu/ .

The General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church hold the Edwin Lewis Papers (http://www.gcah.org), a teacher and mentor of Michalson.

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Arrangement
Subseries A arranged alphabetically by title, with book reports and thesis at the end. Subseries B arranged alphabetically within three pre-established groups: class notebooks, academic papers and dissertation research.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

 

 

Subseries A: Drew University, 1938-1940

1

1

Andrew Martin Fairbairn: His Life and Thought

undated

1

2

Contemporary Theology

undated

1

3

Critical Humanism and Comprehensive Scholarship

undated

1

4

The Doctrine of Atonement

undated

1

5

Existentialism is a Mysticism

undated

1

6

The Function of Faith: Essay Concerning Christian Understanding

undated

1

7

The Humanistic Spirit in Rome

undated

1

8

The Idea of Divine Revelation and the Response of Man

undated

1

9

The Idea of the Church in the Eucharist of the Early Period

undated

1

10

Lectures in Christian Theology

1938

1

11

Life of Jesus

1938

1

12

Metaphysical Theology

undated

1

13

Myth and Legend: As Related to Genesis 1 to 11

undated

1

14

The Papacy in the Reformation

undated

1

15

Philosophy and Religion

undated

1

1

Platonism: Its Religious and Philosophical Influence

1939-1940

2

2

The Quest for Certainty

undated

2

3

The Social Doctrines in the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr

undated

2

4

Stuart F. Sherman

undated

2

5

Substance and Activity

undated

2

6

Theology in the Poets

undated

2

7

The Theology of Dante's Divine Comedy

undated

2

8

The Theology of the Poetry of Francis Thompson

undated

2

9

The Use of Materials by Irving Babbitt

undated

2

10

Validity in Religious Experience

undated

2

11

William Ernest Hocking and The Meaning of God in Human Experience

undated

2

12

Collected Book Reports

undated

2

13

Master's Thesis: Human Responsibility in the Republic of Plato and in the Synoptic Gospels

undated

 

 

Subseries B: Yale University, 1940-1945

3

1

Christian Ethics, course notebook I

undated

3

2

Christian Ethics, course notebook II

undated

3

3

Contemporary Theology, course notebook I

undated

3

4

Contemporary Theology, course notebook II

undated

3

5

History of Christian Doctrine, course notebook I

undated

3

6

History of Christian Doctrine, course notebook II

undated

3

7

History of Christian Doctrine, course notebook III

undated

3

8

History of Christian Doctrine, course notebook IV

undated

3

9

History of Philosophy, course notebook I

undated

3

10

History of Philosophy, course notebook II

undated

4

1

History of Philosophy, course notebook III

undated

4

2

History of Philosophy papers

undated

4

3

Philosophy of Religion, course notebook I

undated

4

4

Philosophy of Religion, course notebook II

undated

4

5

Unlabeled notebook

undated

4

6

Unlabeled notebook

undated

4

7

Unlabeled notebook

undated

4

8

Unlabeled notebook

undated

4

9

Unlabeled notebook

undated

4

10

Augustine's Doctrine of Grace

undated

4

11

Contemporary Theology

undated

4

12

John Henry Newman

undated

4

13

On Personal Evangelism and Religious Education

undated

4

14

Personalism and Theology

undated

4

15

Social Religion

undated

5

1

Das Gewissheitsproblem

undated

5

2

Das Weltbilt der Zukunft

undated

5

3

Das Wesen der Gnade

undated

5

4

Die Weltanschauung der Bibel

undated

5

5

Das Wort vom Kreuz

undated

5

6

Glaube und Denken and other papers

undated

5

7

Glaube und Leben

undated

5

8

Glaubensgewissheit

undated

5

9

God Transcendent

undated

5

10

Jesus der Herr

undated

5

11

Jesus der Weltvollender

undated

5

12

Leben aus dem Glauben

undated

5

13

Leitfaden der Dogmatik

undated

5

14

Psychologismus oder Anti-Psychologismus

undated

5

15

Heim – English Works

undated

5

16

Heim – Incomplete Bibliography

undated

5

17

Heim – Notes and Correspondence

undated

5

18

Heim – Periodicals

undated

5

19

Heim – Secondary Periodicals

undated

5

20

Heim – Secondary Sources

undated

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Arrangement
Arranged in original order.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

 

 

Subseries A: Course Materials, 1953, undated

6

1

Course Outlines

undated

6

2

Course Outlines

undated

6

3

Lectures

undated

6

4

Course Readings

undated

6

5

Course Readings

undated

6

6

Course Readings

undated

6

7

German Exams

1953, undated

6

8

Graduate School Departmental Exams

undated

 

 

Subseries B: Article Research and Lecture Notes, 1943-1966

6

9

Notes on Christology Seminar

1962

6

10

Notes on Seminar on Work of Christ

1963

6

11

“Finality of Christ” Article

1964

7

1

“Finality of Christ” Article

1964

7

2

Eschatology

1964-1965

7

3

Theism

undated

7

4

Doctrine of God

undated

7

5

Doctrine of God

undated

7

6

Seminar on The Doctrine of God

1948

7

7

Lectures in progress for The Doctrine of God

undated

7

8

The Doctrine of God

undated

8

1

Preaching

undated

8

2

Sermons in Preparation

undated

8

3

Hermeneutics Consultation Conference

1962

8

4

History and Hermeneutics

1963

8

5

Medieval Scholasticism

undated

8

6

Church History Survey

undated

8

7

Greek and Latin Fathers

undated

8

8

Suffering and Death

1965

8

9

Christian Doctrine

undated

8

10

Medieval Aquinas

undated

8

11

Aquinas and Dante

undated

9

1

Continental Reformation

undated

9

2

Luther

undated

9

3

Reformation – Luther, Calvin

undated

9

4

Augustine

undated

9

5

Essay on Augustine's Grace of God

undated

9

6

Augustine

1949

9

7

Revelation and Response

undated

9

8

Revelation

undated

9

9

Faith

undated

9

10

Faith, Revelation and Reason

undated

9

11

Reason and Preaching

undated

9

12

Introduction to the Doctrine of Sin

1943-1944

9

13

Reading Notes on Sin

undated

9

14

Original Sin

undated

9

15

Christian Ethics

undated

9

16

Revelation

1946-1947

10

1

Miscellaneous Papers on Revelation

undated

10

2

Lectures on Revelation

1944-1945

10

3

Bibliography on Revelation

undated

10

4

Revelation – Bible

undated

10

5

Revelation – Patristics

undated

10

6

Revelation – Scholastics

undated

10

7

Revelation – From Luther to Kant

undated

10

8

Contemporary Revelation

1943-1944

10

9

Salvation

undated

10

10

Salvation

undated

10

11

Salvation

1946

10

12

Paul on Salvation

undated

10

11

Salvation

1946

10

12

Paul on Salvation

undated

10

13

Salvation Construction, Course 711.2, Doctrine of Salvation

undated

10

14

Secularization

undated

10

15

Sin – Lectures

1945-1946

10

16

Sin

1947-1948

10

17

Sin

undated

10

18

Doctrine of Sin

undated

11

1

Notes related to the Religious Dimensions of the Doctrine of Sin

undated

11

2

Sin and Salvation

undated

11

3

Sin and Salvation – Bibliography

undated

11

4

Psychological and Sociological

undated

11

5

Moral

undated

11

6

The Holy Spirit

undated

11

7

Second Consultation on Hermeneutics, Theological Discourse and the Proclamation of the Gospel

April 9-11, 1964

11

8

Rationality of Faith

undated

11

9

Notes on Chapter 2 of Rationality of Faith

undated

11

10

Faith and Freedom – Lectures

undated

11

11

Notes on Freedom

undated

11

12

Notes on Faith – Sky Lake Conference

September 13-17, 1948

11

13

The Mission of the Church

undated

12

1

Missionary Structure

1962-1963

12

2

International Missionary Council

undated

12

3

Worship and Meditation in the Church

undated

12

4

Leadership Training – John's Gospel

undated

12

5

Biblical Paul and the Prophets

undated

12

6

Notes of Mysticism

undated

12

7

Mysticism

undated

12

8

Student Regional Leadership Training Conference

June 8-15, 1955

12

9

Prayer

undated

13

1

Prayer

undated

13

2

Contemporary Theology

1962, undated

13

3

Contemporary Theology

undated

13

4

Schweitzer to Buri

undated

13

5

Aulen

undated

13

6

Heinrich Barth

undated

14

1

Bonhoeffer

undated

14

2

Brunner

undated

14

3

Bultmann

undated

14

4

Diem

1957

14

5

Nature as History

undated

14

6

Theology as History

1965-1966

14

7

Theology as History

1963

14

8

Theology as History

1963

14

9

Theology as History

undated

14

10

Theology as History

undated

15

1

Theology as History

undated

15

2

Theology as History

undated

15

3

History

undated

15

4

Important on History

undated

15

5

History, Ontology, and Theology

undated

15

6

American Theology

undated

15

7

The Christian Faith

undated

16

1

Course Materials for the Christian Faith

1948

16

2

Christian Theology

undated

16

3

Christianity and Modern Thought

1962-1963

16

4

The Philosophy of Christian Revelation

undated

16

5

Edwin Lewis articles – The Christian and His Creed

1943

16

6

Notes for Christian Theology (taught with Lewis)

undated

16

7

Notes for Lectures with Lewis

undated

16

8

Introduction to Systematic Theology

undated

16

9

Ebeling Lectures

undated

16

10

Gogarten

undated

16

11

Reinhold Niebuhr

undated

16

12

Paul Tillich

undated

16

13

Theology for Persistent Questions

undated

17

1

Theology for Persistent Questions

undated

17

2

Theology for Crucial Situations

undated

17

3

Theology for Crucial Situations

undated

17

4

Sex and Love

undated

17

5

Theology for Social Situations

undated

17

6

Contemporary Issues in Theology

undated

17

7

Existentialism is a Mysticism

undated

18

1

Existential

undated

18

2

Existentialism

undated

18

3

Christianity and Existentialism Seminar

undated

18

4

Contemporary Philosophy and Religion

undated

18

5

Philosophical Anthropology

1947

18

6

Philosophical Anthropology

1949

18

7

Philosophical Anthropology

undated

18

8

Philosophical Anthropology – Uncorrelated Reading

undated

18

9

Science

undated

18

10

Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

undated

18

11

Modern Theories of Religion

undated

19

1

Modern Philosophies of Religion

1946

19

2

Christianity in Japan

undated

19

3

Japanese Theology

undated

19

4

Notes for Japanese Contributions to Christian Theology

undated

19

5

Japanese Materials Catalogs

undated

19

6

Japanese Theology

undated

19

7

Japanese Theology

undated

20

1

Japanese Theology

undated

20

2

Sartre – Zen, Beat and other material

undated

20

3

Reading Notes and Bibliography

undated

20

4

Christological Controversies

undated

20

5

Lecture Preparation

undated

20

6

Sermon Outlines and Prayers

undated

20

7

Descartes

undated

20

8

Heidegger

undated

20

9

Dostoevsky

undated

20

10

Gadamer

undated

21

1

Karl Jaspers

undated

21

2

Karl Lowith

undated

21

3

Soren Kierkegaard

undated

21

4

Richard Kroner's “Von Kant bis Hegel”

undated

21

5

Max Scheler

undated

21

6

Ernst Troeltsch

undated

21

7

Plato

undated

21

8

Eternity and Time in Plato

undated

21

9

Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Christianity

1962

21

10

Contemporary Philosophy and Religion

undated

21

11

Logical Positivism

undated

21

12

Contemporary Philosophy

1952, undated

22

1

Contemporary Philosophy

undated

22

2

Philosophical Backgrounds for Theology

undated

22

3

Christian and Contemporary Philosophy

undated

22

4

Philosophical Backgrounds

undated

22

5

Philosophical Background Lectures

1945-1946

22

6

Philosophical Backgrounds of Theology

undated

22

7

Stoicism

undated

22

8

Instrumentalism

undated

22

9

Psychoanalysis

undated

22

10

Phenomenology

undated

22

11

Marxism

undated

22

12

Religion in Higher Education

undated

22

13

Notes taken while at Strasbourg

undated

23

1

Notes for course, Theology: East and West

1947

23

2

Society for Theological Education

1958-1961

23

3

Correspondence with Doctoral Candidates

1951-1954

23

4

Preparation for Worldly Theology

undated

23

5

Hegel's Essay on Faith and Knowledge

undated

23

6

Preparation for Wesley article in the Calhoun Festschrift

undated

23

7

Preparation for article in the Niebuhr Festschrift

undated

23

8

Miscellaneous

undated

23

9

Miscellaneous

undated

23

10

Miscellaneous

undated

24

1

Miscellaneous

undated

24

2

Miscellaneous

undated

24

3

Miscellaneous

undated

24

4

Miscellaneous

undated

24

5

Miscellaneous

undated

24

6

Miscellaneous

undated

24

7

Miscellaneous

undated

24

8

Miscellaneous

undated

24

9

Miscellaneous

undated

24

10

Miscellaneous

undated

24

11

Miscellaneous

undated

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Arrangement
Subseries A contains parts of books and articles arranged alphabetically as in the Drew Gateway publication, The Writings of Carl Michalson and book reviews are in original order. Subseries B contains sermons arranged by title or biblical order and prayers arranged in original order.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

 

 

Subseries A: Published Works, 1944-1966

24

12

The Writings of Carl Michalson, Drew Gateway

1966

24

13

Parts of Books

1953-1966

25

1

Articles, B

1945-1965

25

2

Articles, C-D

1945-1965

25

3

Articles, E-F

1945-1965

25

4

Articles, G-H

1945-1965

25

5

Articles, I-K

1945-1965

25

6

Articles, L-M

1945-1965

25

7

Articles, N-P

1945-1965

25

8

Articles, R

1945-1965

25

9

Articles, T

1945-1965

25

10

Articles, W

1945-1965

25

11

Book Reviews of Michalson Works

1944-1965

26

1

Book Reviews by Michalson

1944-1965

26

2

Miscellaneous Book Reviews

1944-1965

 

 

Subseries B: Unpublished Works, undated

26

3

Sermons by Title

undated

26

4

Sermons in Biblical Order

undated

26

5

Prayers

undated

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Arrangement
Subseries A arranged alphabetically by subject. Subseries B arranged chronologically.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

 

 

Subseries A: Drew Faculty Files, 1943-1965

26

6

Annual Report to the Dean

1950-1953

26

7

Curriculum Material

1955, undated

26

8

Division Appointments

1963-1964

26

9

The Drew Gateway Editorship

1950-1957

26

10

Faculty Biography

undated

26

11

Faculty Memos

1951-1964

26

12

Graduate Examination Memos

1965, undated

26

13

Graduate School Memos

1955, 1965

26

14

Grants and Fellowships

1951

 

 

Subseries B: Correspondence and Programs, 1943-1965

26

15

Correspondence – Faculty

1943-1961

27

1

Correspondence – Publishers

1950-1953

27

2

Correspondence – Together Magazine

1957-1958

27

3

Correspondence – Miscellaneous

1948-1965

27

4

Programs

1955-1965, undated

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Arrangement
Subseries A and B arranged alphabetically. Subseries C arranged by size.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

 

 

Subseries A: Newspaper Articles, Papers and Tributes, 1965-1966, 1983

27

5

Drew University Dissertation Prospectus, “Carl Michalson's Contribution to Theological Ethics,” Sam Roberts

1983

27

6

Memorials, unpublished

1965

27

7

Memorials, published, and Service Programs

1965-1966

27

8

Michalson Bibliography, compiled by L.O. Kline and E.J. Wynne, Jr.

1966, undated

27

9

Newspaper articles

1965

27

10

Papers by Fellow Scholars

undated

 

 

Subseries B: The Carl Michalson Society, 1976-1986

27

11

The Carl Michalson Society Bulletins

1976-1986

27

12

The Carl Michalson Society Papers

1976-1986

 

 

Subseries C: Photographs, undated

28

1

Photographs

undated

28

2

Photographs

undated

28

3

Duplicate Photographs

undated

28

4

Duplicate Photographs

undated

28

5

Negatives

undated

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