The Great South Window of Teaching
The north aisle depicts the life of Christ, and the south aisle his teachings, a theme
under which the Chapel places all subject matter studied in a University. We begin with
the south aisle’s culmination, the Great South Window. The theme verse is “And ye
shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Flanking Christ
are two ways of handling doubt in the life of faith – the cynical “What is truth?”
of Pontius Pilate, or the more honest struggle of doubting Thomas. Just below Christ
is the great theologian at the center of the western theological tradition, St.
Augustine, the window below telling the story of his conversion. Princeton
President John Witherspoon makes an appropriate appearance in the bottom right lancet.
Before moving on don’t miss the south transept's discipleship window, containing
among others Martin Luther, John Wesley, and George Whitefield of First
Great Awakening fame, who received an honorary degree from the College
of New Jersey in 1754, and in the window is preaching on the steps of Nassau Hall.
