George Smith, Serampore. 1868. Rev. Henry Baker Tristram, F.R.S., Master of Greatham Hospital. Rev. William Veitch, Edinburgh. Matthew Arnold, H.M.I.S. 1869. Alexander Bain, Professor of Logic, University of Aberdeen. Colonel J. A. Ballard, C.B. Andrew Rutherford Clark, Advocate. Edward S. Gordon, Q.C. George Moir, Advocate. Lyon Plairfair, C.B., M.P. T. Collyns Simon. William Swan, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of St Andrews. Sir William Thomson, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow. Sir Charles Wheatstone, F.R.S. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart., Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 1870. Sir Colin Blackburn, one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench. Rev. John Gibson Macvicar, D.D., Minister of Moffat. James Clerk Maxwell, F. R.S. Charles Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. William Wright, D.C.L., MS. Department, British Museum. Henry Wentworth Acland, Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. Max Müller, Professor of Philology in the University of Oxford. Robert Carruthers, Inverness. 1871. William Forsyth, Barrister-at-Law, Q.C. Shadworth H. Hodgson, B.A. Oxon. Right Hon. George Young, Q.C., M.P., Lord Advocate of Scotland. Graduation in Divinity. REGULATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF DIVINITY. APPROVED OF BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE University, I. No one shall be admitted as a Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity unless he be a Master of Arts of one of the Universities of Scotland, or of England, or of Ireland, or of a Colonial University, whose degrees shall, for this purpose, have been specially recognised by the University Court. II. This Degree shall be conferred only after the Candidate has completed his Theological Curriculum with a view to the ministry in the Church or Denomination to which he belongs, and after he has passed a satisfactory examination in the various branches of Theology which are taught in this University. III. Candidates who are not Masters of Arts of the University of Edinburgh must have attended two classes in one or more of the Faculties of this University. IV. The subjects of examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity shall be arranged in two departments :-The First Department embracing—(1) Hebrew, and (2) Apologetic Theology, or the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; and the Second Department embracing (1) Church History, (2) Systematic Theology, and (3) Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities. V. Candidates who have completed their Theological Course may be examined in either of these departments, and may defer to some future occasion their examination in the other departments, provided always that there be not a greater interval than two years between their two examinations. VI. Students who have completed all the Sessions but one of their Theological Course, may be admitted to examination in the first department. VII. The Examinations shall be conducted by the Professors of the Theological Faculty with the assistance of two Examiners, being Bachelors of Divinity of one of the Universities of Scotland, to be nominated by the University Court. VIII. The Examination in the First Department shall take place at, or soon after, the commencement of the Theological Session; and the Examination in the Second Department at, or soon after, the close of the Theological Session-power being reserved to the Senatus Academicus, should they see cause, to appoint the examination in both departments to take place at either of these periods. IX. The Fee for examination shall be Three Guineas, payable in advance; but when the examination is undergone on different occasions, a Fee of Two Guineas shall be paid prior to the first, and the remaining One Guinea prior to the last examination. The next Examination in the First Department will take place on Friday, 10th November 1871, and on the following day. The next Examination in the Second Department will take place on Tuesday, 9th April 1872, and on the following day. Candidates are required to communicate their names, together with evidence of their being qualified in terms of the above Regulations, to the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, at least one week before the day appointed for the Examination. The subjects of Examination are as follows: I. Apologetic Theology DEPARTMENT I. (1.) Miracles. (2.) Prophecy. (3.) Buchanan's "Faith in God and Modern Atheism compared," sections ii. and iii. II. Hebrew Psalms 90-106 inclusive, and Second Book of Kings. DEPARTMENT II. I. Systematic Theology (1.) The purposes of God. (2.) The nature and extent of the Atonement. (3.) Calvini Institutio Christ. Religionis, Lib. III., cap. xxi., xxii., xxiii. (including translation from the Latin). II. Ecclesiastical History— At the option of the candidate, either Apocryphal and Pseudonymous (Christian) writings of the first four centuries; or, Gregory the Great: his life, character, times, literary works, and contributions to the progress of the Papacy. III. Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities— (1.) Manuscripts, Versions, and Critical Editions of New Testament. Scrivener's "Plain Introduction to Criti cism of the New Testament," especially chap. ii. (sec. i. and ii.), chaps. iii., v., vii. (2.) Principal passages in New Testament of disputed genuineness or doubtful reading. [Scrivener (as above) chap. ix. may be recommended.] (3.) Epistles to Galatians and Colossians. (4.) Controversies regarding unity of Isaiah, and authenticity of John's Gospel. (5.) Westcott on Canon. DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF DIVINITY (D.D.). The Degree of Doctor of Divinity is conferred honoris causâ tantum. The Register of Doctors of Divinity commences in 1709, with the names of Edmund Calamy, Daniel Williams, and Joshua Oldfield. The names of Evans, Harris, and Isaac Watts follow in 1728. The Register now includes above 300 names. The following is a list of those who have received the Degree of Doctor of Divinity within the last twenty-five years :— 1847. John Paul, one of the Ministers of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh. 1849. Wm. Hope Meiklejohn, Minister of the Church of Scotland, Calcutta. William Glover, one of the Ministers of Edinburgh. Thos. Guthrie, one of the Ministers of St. John's Free Church, Edinb. William Stevenson, Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History. John Smart, Minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Leith. 1854. James Veitch, one of the Ministers of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh. John Lillie, New York. 1855. John Forrest, Charlestown, South Carolina. Peter Colin Campbell, Principal of the University of Aberdeen. John Taylor, Prof. of Divinity in the Presbyterian College of Canada. 1860. Samuel Richardson, Minister of Penninghame. Sir H. W. Moncreiff, Bart., Minister of St Cuthbert's Free Church, Edin. John Cunningham, Minister of Crieff. Thomas Burns, Minister of Free Church, Otago. 1864. Zachary Macaulay Hamilton, Minister of Bressay. W. Hanna, LL.D., one of the Ministers of St John's Free Church, Edin. 1865. Robert S. Candlish, Principal of New College, Edinburgh. Josiah Leslie Porter, Professor of Biblical Criticism, Belfast. Lewis Edwards, Principal of the College of Welsh Methodists at Bala. 1867. George Walker, Minister of Kinnell. Thomas Smith, M. A., Minister of Cowgate-head Free Church. Maxwell Nicholson, St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh. Joseph Mullens, India. 1868. Richard Paul Blakeney, LL.D., Rector of Christ Church, Birkenhead. William Robertson, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh. R. Selkirk Scott, Minister of the U.P. Church, Manchester. 1869. Frederick Crombie, Professor of Biblical Criticism, University of St Andrews. John Ker, Minister of the U.P. Church, Glasgow. Kenneth Macleay Phin, Minister of Galashiels. Henry Robert Reynolds, Principal of Cheshunt Coll., Herts. George Smeaton, Professor of Exegetical Theology, Free Church Coll., Edinburgh. William Smith, Minister of North Leith. John Stoughton, Minister of the Independent Church, Kensington. 1870. Alexander L. R. Foote, Minister of West Free Church, Brechin. Enoch Mellor, Minister of the Congregational Church, Halifax. Archibald Stewart, Minister of Glasserton. William Wilson, Minister of St Paul's Free Church, Dundee. |