The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College Spring 2010

Martyrs Mirror study conference to be held in June

n June 8-10, the Young Center will host a major Radical Pietist authors and printers. Patrick Erben, Ostudy conference, “: Reflections professor of English at the University of West Geor- Across Time,” focusing on the Anabaptist martyrol- gia, will examine the translation of meanings as the ogy, the Martyrs Mirror. The conference marks the Martyrs Mirror was translated into German at 350th anniversary of the first publication of the Ephrata in 1748. In addition to the plenary speeches, Martyrs Mirror in 1660 in the Netherlands. other presenters will give papers in smaller group Thieleman Jansz van Braght collected the stories sessions. of Anabaptists across Europe and connected them The presentations will offer a variety of interpre- to the stories of martyrs in ancient and tive lenses for the Martyrs Mirror. The call for in the intervening cen- papers invites presentations that deal with the social turies. in historical context, theology or religious topics, gen- the Netherlands had der analyses, literary interpretations, or papers that assimilated well to the deal with Jan Luyken’s illustrations, which first prosperity and tolera- appeared in the second edition of 1685. Presenters tion during the flour- may also address the various editions of the Mar- ishing economy there tyrs Mirror, whether in Dutch, German, English or in the seventeenth cen- other languages, and editions from various presses tury. Van Braght’s col- and countries. lection recalled the Conference attendees may register for optional struggles of the faith in tours on Tuesday afternoon before the conference more difficult times. opens. One is a tour of the , the site The conference will where the Martyrs Mirror was first translated com- feature three plenary pletely into German and published in the American presentations. Martyrs colonies. The tour includes bus transportation to the Mirror expert James Ephrata Cloister, admission to the site, and a box Lowry will discuss the lunch. The second tour option is a trip to Lancaster biography of Thiele- Mennonite Historical Society’s library and to the man van Braght and Muddy Creek Library to view copies of the Martyrs the setting in which he Mirror in the extensive collections of both institu- created the book. Mar- tions. This tour also includes bus transportation and cus Meier, noted histo- a box lunch. Both tours will depart from the Young rian of Radical , Center at noon and return by 5:00, in time for con- will present the biog- ference registration. Each tour costs $40. raphy of illustrator Jan The fee for the conference (including meals) is Luyken and his con- $110 if registered by May 7, and $125 after May 7. Title page of the 1748 Ephrata edition of the Martyrs Mirror. nections to several The fee for students is $85. (continued on p. 2)

1 FROM THE DIRECTOR

Jeff Bach he turn from the old year to the new ous fifth vocal line that appears in some maier understood texts written in the Tis an occasion to think about new Ephrata manuscripts. Small, colored early centuries of Christianity. Theron F. opportunities and reflect on the past. The geometric patterns and floral ornaments Schlabach, the Durnbaugh lecturer, will work at the Young Center reminds me decorate some of the leaves. This old, bring a fresh assessment to Mennonite that sometimes what is old can also be- unique manuscript offers new opportuni- theologian Guy F. Hershberger’s ap- come what is new. ties to study the musical and manuscript proach to peace and ethics in the twenti- The music manuscript that we ac- art traditions among the people of Snow eth century. quired this fall was copied by hand in the Hill and Ephrata. In the coming semester, I hope that nineteenth century at the Snow Hill Our scholars this semester bring new you can join us for our programs and community, a monastic offshoot of the focus to old topics. Our Kreider Fellow, reflect on ways that topics rooted in the Ephrata community. Each leaf in the Diane Zimmerman Umble, will research past raise fresh questions in the complex manuscript reveals the delicate music Mennonite women in the twentieth cen- world of today. We are thankful for sup- notes, written to copy music that was tury. Andrew Klager, our scholar in res- porters who help to keep this important composed about a century earlier. The idence, studies how sixteenth-century work advancing. I look forward to see- hymns in this manuscript have the curi- Anabaptist theologian Balthasar Hub- ing you at the Young Center.  Young Center acquires rare music manuscript

he Young Center recently completed century—of musical settings that were lection is a happy occasion. Researchers Tthe purchase of a rare music manu- composed by Conrad Beissel, founder of of music, hymn texts, and Pennsylvania script from the Snow Hill religious com- the Ephrata community. The composi- German folk art will find it to be a valu- munity in Franklin County, an offspring tions are for hymns from the Weyrauchs- able resource for years to come. The book of the Ephrata community. Emmert and Hügel (Mountain of Incense), a hymnal will be on display in the Young Center Esther Bittinger had purchased the man- printed by Christopher Saur for the lobby after January 2010.  uscript many years ago and had it in their Ephrata community in 1739. The book collection of rare books. They offered to contains various geometric patterns of sell the manuscript to the Young Center, ornamentation and some small floral and thanks to generous donors and NEH motives. At one point in its history, the Challenge Grant funds designated for the manuscript was trimmed down, remov- Spring 2010 purchase of books, the Young Center was ing much of the border area on the leaves  DIRECTOR able to acquire it. of paper. It was also bound in leather. Jeff Bach, Ph.D. The manuscript is a handwritten The opportunity to add this rare man-  SENIOR FELLOW copy—made probably in the nineteenth uscript to the Young Center research col- Donald B. Kraybill, Ph.D.  RESEARCH STAFF Stephen Scott Cynthia Nolt Martyrs Mirror conference in June (continued)  ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Hillary Daecher

The fee for attending the conference for The Young Center has planned these Young Center News is published twice each year one day only is $55. On-campus housing events in consultation with the Mennonite for those interested in the work and events of the is available in the Schreiber Quads. Historical Committee’s work to develop a Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please Motel accommodations are available in multi-year research cycle that will address direct correspondence to the address below. and around Elizabethtown as well. the Martyrs Mirror in a much broader, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Conference details are posted on the multi-discipline, multi-cultural emphasis Elizabethtown College Young Center’s web site; registration beginning in 2011. The conference will be One Alpha Drive Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298 forms will be available on the site later a great opportunity to begin the study of Phone: (717) 361-1470; Fax: (717) 361-1443 this winter. The call for papers is also this book, which is a significant marker of E-mail: [email protected] posted on the web site. The deadline for Anabaptist faith that continues to be Web site: www.etown.edu/youngctr proposals is January 31. meaningful in the present. 

2 Visiting scholars pursue diverse research interests Diane Zimmerman Umble and Andrew P. Klager at the Young Center spring semester

iane Zimmerman Umble will serve as ties in times of war, financial stress, and “The Young Center will provide me Dthe Kreider Fellow for Spring 2010. A great technological and social change. with the time, space, and resources neces- Millersville University professor, Umble What counted for them and what they sary to focus on specific topics related to teaches in the department of communica- leave unspoken provides a window into my research that I otherwise would have tion and theatre. She wrote Holding the how they constructed and negotiated their had to postpone,” Klager says. “I look for- Line: The Telephone in Old Order Men- lives within the religious and cultural ward to being in conversation with experts nonite and Life (1996) and co- constraints of their changing times,” in Anabaptist history while exposing will- edited Strangers at Home: Amish and Umble says. “My time as a fellow will ing interlocutors to my research direction Mennonite Women in History (2002) and focus primarily on developing the manu- and provisional conclusions.” The Amish and the Media (2008), all pub- script. Access to library resources and to The Young Center invites nominations lished by Johns Hopkins University Press. colleagues with shared interests at the and applications for Center fellows and Umble received her Ph.D. from the Uni- Young Center will provide a context to doctoral fellows. Visit the Center’s web versity of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg test and refine this work.” site for details.  School of Communication. Andrew P. Klager will also be in resi- While at the Young Center, she will be dence at the Young Center for the spring writing a book based on the diaries of two semester. Klager is completing his doc- Pennsylvania Mennonite women, Anna toral degree at the University of Glasgow E. Umble (1889-1964) and E. Elmira in Scotland, and will expand on his doc- Martyrs Mirror Zimmerman (1898-1978). The diaries toral research while at the Young Center. span fifty years, from the 1920s to the The focus of Klager’s research is six- exhibit to open 1970s, and provide accounts of the teenth-century Anabaptist theologian women’s daily routines, family and and Hubmaier’s use new exhibit will open on January 25 in church life, and social networks. “They of ancient Christian writings as mediated Athe lobby of the Young Center and married, worked, raised families, and through Renaissance humanists north of continue through June 30. “Reflections of served their churches and their communi- the Alps, including , Oecolampa- the Martyrs Mirror” will feature various dius, and Beatus Rhenanus. In 2008, editions of the Anabaptist martyrology, Klager presented a paper on Hubmaier at the Martyrs Mirror, in recognition of the the University of British Columbia, 350th anniversary of its first publication in which was subsequently published in the Dutch in 1660. Thieleman van Braght Historical Papers of the Canadian Society compiled the Martyrs Mirror to com- of Church History, and will have memorate Anabaptist martyrs in Europe “Balthasar Hubmaier’s Use of the Church and include them in the line of Christian Fathers: Availability, Access, and Interac- martyrs since ancient times. Mennonites tion” published this month in The Men- in Pennsylvania arranged for its transla- Diane Z. Umble Andrew P. Klager nonite Quarterly Review. tion into German and printing here. The book became influential, especially among the Amish, but also among Men- nonites and Brethren. The exhibit will include some of the New temporary staff member earlier compilations of martyr stories that van Braght drew on to create his first edi- he Young Center welcomes a new Friends Collection and Archives in Lilly tion in 1660, and will feature books from Tperson to the staff—at least temporar- Library at Earlham College. During the Muddy Creek Library and the Schwenk- ily. Eileen Kinch is serving as the admin- same time period, she also served as a felder Library and Heritage Center. The istrative assistant from November 30, conservation assistant, working in the Young Center thanks the two institutions 2009, to February 26, 2010, while Hillary Cassel Collection of Bethany Theological for their generosity in lending rare books Daecher is on maternity leave. Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. for this display. Kinch earned an M.Div. degree from Kinch is also a freelance editor and an Interested persons are encouraged to Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, author. She recently published a history of see this interpretation of a very important Indiana, in 2007. She is also a graduate of the Earlham School of Religion, The ESR Anabaptist literary and spiritual land- Chatham College, where she majored in Story: 1985-2010. Kinch lives in Quar- mark. The exhibit is available weekdays English. From 2007 to 2008, Kinch ryville and is a member of the Religious between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Calling worked as an archival assistant in the Society of Friends ().  ahead is helpful, but not required. 

3 Young Center Schlabach named Durnbaugh lecturer co-sponsors he Young Center is pleased to hanna Room of Tannounce that Theron F. Schlabach, Myer Hall. The Mennonite historian and former acting Friday seminar peace events director of the Young Center, will present will be held from the 2010 Durnbaugh lectures. Schlabach 10 a.m. to noon in n November, the Young Center collab- is professor emeritus of history at Goshen the Young Center. Iorated with the Center for Global Citi- College in Goshen, Indiana, where he In addition to zenship to celebrate the importance of taught from 1965 to 2004. He is also the his teaching posi- peace at Elizabethtown College and author or editor of numerous articles and tion at Goshen, explore the Brethren background of the books including Peace, Faith, Nation: Schlabach served college’s peace heritage. Mennonites and Amish in Nineteenth as editor of the Theron F. Schlabach On November 19, a panel discussion Century America and Proclaim Peace: Studies in Anabap- was held in the Bucher Meetinghouse Christian from Unexpected tist and Mennonite History book series addressing the question “Is Elizabeth- Quarters. His most recent book, War, and the Mennonite Experience in America town a Peace College?” Religious stud- Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. book series, and interim editor and man- ies professors Jeff Long and Michael Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics (Her- aging editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Long, anthropology professor Robert ald Press, 2009), will serve as the basis Review. He was a member of both the Wheelersburg, and Elizabethtown Col- for the 2010 lectures. Mennonite Historical Society’s board of lege student Ryan Schlosser served on Established in 1993 to commemorate directors and The Mennonite Quarterly the panel. Each described ways he the scholarship of Don and Hedda Durn- Review’s board of editors for 25 years. He thought peace is an important influence baugh, this endowed lecture series brings also served as acting director of the Young at Elizabethtown College, and presented a noted scholar of Anabaptist or Pietist Center for the 1996-97 academic year. ideas about how peace could be more studies to campus annually. This year’s Schlabach received his Ph.D. in U.S. prominent in the life of the college. presentations will be held on April 8 and social history from the University of That evening, another panel con- 9. The Thursday lecture will follow the Wisconsin, where he was a Danforth vened in the meetinghouse to discuss the Young Center banquet in the Susque- Fellow.  Brethren roots of the peace heritage at Elizabethtown College. Donald B. Kray- bill, senior fellow at the Young Center, served as the moderator. Jeff Bach, Lancaster County librarians visit director of the Young Center, offered an overview of the Brethren peace witness. n the evening of November 18, eleven High Library as part of its twentieth Ken Kreider, professor emeritus of his- Olibrarians from the Lancaster County anniversary year. After a tour of the tory, described the role of Brethren serv- Librarians Association visited the Young library, including the Brethren Heritage ice during the WWII era and its effect at Center. They came as part of their fall Room, the group came to the Young Cen- Elizabethtown, and Gene Clemens, pro- meeting, which includes a visit to a ter to see many of the rare books in its col- fessor emeritus of religion, reflected on library in Lancaster County. BethAnn lection. Director Jeff Bach explained the beginnings of the peace studies pro- Zambella, director of Elizabethtown Col- some of the history and mission of the gram at Elizabethtown. The audience lege’s High Library, invited the group to Young Center.  contributed lively discussion during the afternoon and evening sessions. Earlier in the month, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology invited Jacob Swamp, a member of the Mohawk Nation, to speak on the peace tradition of the Mohawk people. The Young Center and the Center for Global Citizenship Young Center director Jeff supported this event as well. Following Bach congratulates Marcus the presentation, which consisted of a Meier on receiving the 2009 recitation of part of a tribal story about Dale W. Brown Book Award. making peace, members of the college Meier presented a lecture on community joined Swamp in planting a the book, The Origin of the Schwarzenau Brethren, in white pine tree on the campus as a sym- October 2009. bol of peace. 

4 UPCOMING EVENTS

 Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Sustainable Agriculture in Old Order Communities Donald B. Kraybill, moderator

 Thursday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. KREIDER LECTURE Being Mennonite in a Changing World: Mennonite Women's Diaries, 1920-1970 Sustainable Agriculture in Old Diane Zimmerman Umble maier understood the value and author- Order Communities Kreider Fellow, Spring 2010 ity of ancient Christian writers. DONALD B. KRAYBILL, MODERATOR  Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. Andrew Klager, Young Center scholar in Thursday, February 11  7:30 p.m. LECTURE residence for Spring 2010, is completing Balthasar Hubmaier’s Use and View his doctoral degree at the University of Panel members will discuss new trends of the Glasgow in Scotland. The focus of his in Old Order communities that promote Andrew P. Klager research is sixteenth-century Anabaptist sustainable agriculture, including pro- theologian Balthasar Hubmaier, and duce farming, organic products, conser-  Thursday, April 8, 6:00 p.m. Hubmaier’s use and view of the Church vation, grazing methods, marketing Annual Young Center Banquet fathers as transmitted by humanists. cooperatives, and the use of solar power.  Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. DURNBAUGH LECTURE Annual Young Center Banquet Donald B. Kraybill is distinguished col- Caught Between Anabaptists and Thursday, April 8  6:00 p.m. lege professor and senior fellow at the Modernity: Guy Hershberger's Faith (Reception at 5:30 p.m.) Young Center. He is the author of The in His Church Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall Amish of Lancaster County, The Riddle Theron F. Schlabach of Amish Culture and other books on the Socialize with faculty, staff, students, Amish.  Friday, April 9, 10:00 a.m. to noon church leaders, and friends of the DURNBAUGH SEMINAR Young Center and learn about the Cen- Heavenly Hopes for Earthen Vessels: ter’s activities and programs. Cost of Being Mennonite in a Changing Church Ideals/Church Programs the banquet is $18, and reservations are World: Mennonite Women’s Theron F. Schlabach required by March 24. Diaries, 1920-1970 Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. A reception for Durnbaugh Lecturer DIANE ZIMMERMAN UMBLE  LECTURE Theron F. Schlabach will be held at Thursday, March 18  7:30 p.m. The Amish CEO: The Role of the 5:30 p.m., preceding the banquet. The 2010 Kreider Lecture will focus on Owner-Entrepreneur in Amish two Mennonite women’s diaries (1920- Business Success 2010 Durnbaugh Lectures Erik Wesner 1970) to explore how they made sense THERON F. SCHLABACH of their lives in the midst of personal and social change. Their stories illus- Theron F. Schlabach is professor emeri- trate the complex structuring of gender tus of history at , where and religious practice as a religious Balthasar Hubmaier’s Use and he taught for 34 years. A noted Mennon- community resists and accommodates View of the Church Fathers ite historian and former acting director of the Young Center, he also served as to a changing world. ANDREW P. K LAGER editor of two book series: Studies in Thursday, March 25  7:30 p.m. Diane Zimmerman Umble, 2010 Krei- Anabaptist and Mennonite History and der Fellow, is a professor of communi- This lecture will explore the specific six- the Mennonite Experience in America. cation at Millersville University. Her teenth-century editions of the Church Schlabach is the author or editor of scholarship includes studies of the fathers that Anabaptist theologian numerous publications. In his most Amish and the media, communication Balthasar Hubmaier may have used in recent book, War, Peace, and Social practices among Old Order Amish and his own writings, as well as the treatises, Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonites, and Anabaptist women’s commentaries, and epistles of the Mennonite Ethics, Schlabach analyzes history. She received her Ph.D. from Church fathers that he read. The lecture Hershberger’s thought and impact on the University of Pennsylvania. will conclude with a look at how Hub- Mennonites in the twentieth century.

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UPCOMING EVENTS (CONTINUED) Caught Between Anabaptists and Heavenly Hopes for Earthen Vessels: The Amish CEO: The Role of the Modernity: Guy Hershberger's Faith Church Ideals/Church Programs Owner-Entrepreneur in Amish in His Church Friday, April 9  10:00 a.m. to noon Business Success Thursday, April 8  7:30 p.m. Guy F. Hershberger had ideas, and also a ERIK WESNER Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall penchant for engineering policies, pro- Thursday, April 15  7:30 p.m. In the Durnbaugh Lecture, Theron F. grams, agencies, and institutions to put Old Order Amish run 9,000 firms across Schlabach will discuss how historian those ideas—or ideals—into practical North America, from roadside stands to and ethicist Guy F. Hershberger’s mes- forms that he thought would make for building and manufacturing operations sages of biblical pacifism and biblically the church’s faithful discipleship. From registering multi-million dollar annual based social proceeded from another perspective, those forms cer- sales. Based on his recent book, Wesner tainly borrowed from Western culture both his theology of church and church examines the key role Amish entrepre- and modernity, and they communicated as he experienced it as a Mennonite. neurs play in small business prosperity. Schlabach will also juxtapose Hersh- the ideals only in translation. So there berger’s perceptions of church with was the perennial problem of ideals vis- Erik Wesner was the 2008 Young Center some literature that uses alternative a-vis practice. How true were the transla- Snowden Fellow, during which time he definitions of politics—John Howard tions to the original message? Schlabach researched Amish business. He is the Yoder’s Politics of and other, will outline basic facts and issues, and author of Success Made Simple: An more recent formulations—to ask just then give opportunity for responses both Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses how much and in what ways Hersh- to that introduction and to the Thursday Thrive, the upcoming Polish-language berger’s teachings were “political.” evening lecture. Kim sa Amisze? (Who are the Amish?), An optional lunch with Schlabach is and the Amish America blog. available at noon for $8. Lunch reserva- tions are required by March 24.

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