Emory University Pitts Theology Library 505 Kilgo Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Notes News for Partners of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Summer 2013, Number 45

2013 Reformation Day at Emory

“Reformation Women” is

the theme for the 26th

annual Reformation Day

The Richard C. Kessler Reformation at Emory, a full day of Reformation Day at Emory 2013 Collection is a repository of rare and valuable documents produced lectures, exhibits, and in connection with the Protestant The 26th Reformation Day at Emory will be held on Thursday, October 24, and takes as its theme, “Reformation Women.” This musical performances year’s program celebrates the contributions by women to the Reformation of the 16th century, as well as their contributions to Reformation. The collection now the renewal of the church and academy today. Register today at www.pitts.emory.edu/reformationday or by calling 404.727.6352. contains more than 3,500 pieces on Thursday, October 24. written by , his 9:00–9:45 a.m. Registration and Reception—Brooks Commons, Cannon Chapel colleagues, and his opponents, and Attention will be given 10:00–10:45 a.m. “What Can We Learn from the Writings of the Reformation Women?” Professor Kirsi Stjerna, Lutheran printed during their lifetimes. to women of the 16th Theological Seminary at Gettysburg—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel 11:00–11:50 a.m. Chapel Service, Rev. Jan Rippentrop, doctoral student, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, Supported by the vision and century who played impor- preaching—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel resources of Lutheran laypeople 12:15–1:30 p.m. “Finding Voice: Texts and Tunes from Women Hymn Writers” Luncheon Musical Program, Rev. Barbara Richard and Martha Kessler and tant roles in the German Day Miller, associate dean of worship and music and assistant professor in the practice of liturgy; and the partners throughout the Southeast, Candler Singers. Cost: $10 per person. Registration required at www.pitts.emory.edu/reformationday.— the collection is housed in the Pitts Reformation, as well as to Theology Library of Candler School Cox Hall women today who continue to reform and refresh the church. To this end, 1:45–2:45 p.m. “Women and the Reformation of Theological Education: The Case of Candler, 1977–2007,” Professor of Theology. It provides a rich Carol A. Newsom, Candler School of Theology—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel resource for scholars of the we welcome Professor Kirsi Stjerna of the Lutheran Theological Seminary 2:45–3:15 p.m. Refreshments and Break—Brooks Commons, Cannon Chapel Reformation and for clergy 3:30–4:30 p.m. “A Forgotten Page: Women and the 16th-Century Printing Industry,” Armin Siedlecki, Pitts Theology and laity who seek to understand at Gettysburg, Professor Carol Newsom of Candler School of Theology, Library, Candler School of Theology—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel the history of the Christian faith. Emory doctoral student Jan Rippentrop, and Armin Siedlecki of Pitts

For more information about Theology Library as our guest speakers. the collection, contact: M. Patrick Graham .5 CEUs will be awarded to those who request continuing education credit. To receive credit, participants must attend Pitts Theology Library all Reformation Day events, print and submit the request form (CE course 664) at www.pitts.emory.edu/community/ Emory University alumni/CEU_Request_Form.pdf along with a $10 payment (checks made payable to Emory University) to Pitts Theology Library, 505 Kilgo Circle NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. A certificate of attendance will be mailed following Atlanta, Georgia 30322 the event. 404.727.4165 From Ph. Melanchthon’s De rhetorica (Basel: Froben, 1519?) [email protected] Scan the code with your smartphone for more information on Reformation Day. continued on page 2

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We are delighted to bring Stjerna to Candler Professor of Old Testament at M. Patrick Graham Emory for the first time and have her Candler School of Theology, traces this pose for us the question, “What Can sea change in her presentation, “Women The year marks the 26th anniversary We Learn from the Writings of the and the Reformation of Theological of the Kessler Reformation Collection, Reformation Women?” She will introduce Education: The Case of Candler, 1977– and with the addition of 25 new titles, us to several women who functioned 2007.” The experience of Candler School the collection now stands at 3,566 pieces as lay theologians, typically writing as of Theology is a case study in the trans- (1,023 of which are by Luther himself). “mothers” and defenders of the mistreat- formation that many mainline seminaries Twenty-five percent of this year’s acquisi- ed. Although history has ignored many experienced. In 1977 the school was 17 tions are not held by any other American of them, recent scholarship has recov- percent female students and no tenure- library, and another 29 percent are only ered these women and found them to be track female faculty. A generation later, held by one other American institution. Kirsi Stjerna creative and courageous figures whose Candler had a student body that was 50 As we approach 2017 and the 500th confessions of faith made an impact far percent female, a robust cohort of female anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses, this is beyond their immediate surroundings. faculty members, and had just chosen especially important and provides rich Rippentrop, Lutheran pastor and its first female dean. How did this trans- opportunities for Americans to see first- doctoral student in liturgy in Emory’s formation take place? What was it like hand the original documents that tracked Graduate Division of Religion, returns to to engage in the reformation of Candler the German Reformation. the Reformation Day at Emory program from a male institution to a truly coedu- Acquisitions during the past year this year as preacher. Rev. Rippentrop cational one? How have women changed include three works by Martin Luther, has served the ELCA as a parish pas- Candler, and how is Candler changing three by Philipp Melanchthon, and one tor, taught at the Wartburg Theological women? each by Georg Major, Hans Sachs, and Luther, Deudsch Catechismus (: Rhaw, 1530) Seminary, and made frequent use of the Siedlecki has cataloged materials for Ulrich Zwingli. Two of the most signifi- Kessler Collection during her studies at the Kessler Reformation Collection for cant works acquired this year were by Jan Rippentrop Emory. more than a decade and currently serves Luther. The first was the second printing Hans Sachs was a shoemaker, who apologizes to Lucifer for his failure but The Candler Singers and instru- as head of cataloging at Pitts Theology of his famous pamphlet, Von der freyheyt developed into a poet of great renown, assures him that it would be impossible mentalists, under the direction of Rev. Library. This year he draws on his eynes Christen Menschen (Freedom of a producing more than 6,000 songs, dra- to live with mercenaries because all of Barbara Day Miller, associate dean of extensive knowledge of 16th-century Christian), published in 1520 by Melchior mas, and stories. His Der Teuffel lest hell would be eaten out of house and worship and music and assistant profes- printers and presents a lecture entitled, Lotter in Wittenberg and held by only kein Landsknecht mer inn die Helle faren home, and the marauders would seize sor in the practice of liturgy, will offer a “A Forgotten Page: Women and the one other American library. This work (: Georg Merckel, 1559; 4th Lucifer’s bishoprics. Lucifer decides to program of hymns by women compos- Sixteenth-Century Printing Industry.” He sets forth the heart of Luther’s theology: edn.) became the 15th work by Sachs content himself with monks, nuns, law- ers for the luncheon program, “Finding will argue that while the role of women “It is through faith and hope in the Word in the collection. In this poetic satire, yers, and mundane sinners.” Voice: Texts and Tunes from Women in the production of early printed books of God . . . that a person moves from sin- according to the catalog description, This year’s Reformation Day at Emory Hymn Writers.” has often been overlooked, women in ner to saint, from bondage to freedom. Lucifer wants to add some mercenaries program will be the last time that the Until the 1970s even mainline semi- fact owned and operated many printing This was the essence of Luther’s doctrine to his council and so “sends Beelzebub Kessler Collection is exhibited in the cur- naries had relatively few female students presses in the 16th century, typically con- of justification by faith alone.”* to lie in wait at a tavern frequented by rent Pitts Library building on the Emory and few or no tenure-track female faculty. tinuing the printing business after a hus- The second Luther title is the mercenaries in order to procure a pair. Quadrangle. In summer 2014 the library Carol Newsom Seminary buildings often had only one band’s death. In this way they played an first illustrated edition in quarto of The mercenaries tell hair-raising stories will move into Candler’s new Phase II restroom for women, since there were few important role in one of the most trans- his Deudsch Catechismus (German of their violence and pillaging as they building, where the Kessler Collection will women other than the secretaries. Within formative industries of the 16th century. Catechism), printed in 1530 by Georg drink but bless each other so often for occupy state-of-the-art facilities for pres- a generation, the situation had radically All events are free of charge and open Rhaw in Wittenberg and held by no other sneezing and hiccuping that Beelzebub ervation, research, and exhibition. That fall changed. Carol Newsom, Charles Howard to the public. American library. The book includes 10 cannot manage to ensnare them. When will begin Candler’s yearlong celebration woodcuts by Lucas Cranach the Elder one of the mercenaries asks the landlord of its centennial, and the Pitts Library and 11 by the “Master of the Jacobsleiter,” to retrieve a stolen cock from behind the will open its exhibit season by featuring contemporary marginal notes in German stove, with the words “Go fetch that poor treasures from the Kessler Reformation and Latin, and four small sketches. The devil,” Beelzebub thinks that he has been Collection. At long last, there will be a woodcuts have all been scanned and are found out and, terrified at the thought of Pitts building suitable for this collection, now available to the world via the Pitts being captured by so fearsome a creature and for this we have to thank all those Library’s Digital Image Archive. as the mercenary, flees back to hell. He whose gifts have made this possible. Armin Siedlecki ______* John Witte Jr., “The Freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther’s Reformation of Law & Liberty,” (March 8, 2005), p. 3. (http://cslr.law.emory.edu/filead- min/media/PDFs/Lectures/Witte_Freedom_Christian.pdf)

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The 25th Reformation Day at Emory program celebrated the first quarter-century of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection and its contributions to scholarship and the church. th Here are some moments from the day of lectures, 25 worship, and musical performances.

top: Mark Hanson

above: Jean Mori, Jan Love, Betty Mori

right: Worship in Cannon Chapel top left: Neil Alexander below left: Jan Rippentrop middle left: Karen and Mark Scott below right: Barbara Day Miller and the Candler Singers middle right: Dewey Kramer

left: Jonne and Paul Walter

4 • Reformation Notes Summer 2013 • 5 A Pastoral Letter to Three Banished Guest Lecturers

Young Women for the 2013 Program Standing Advisory Committee Armin Siedlecki Georg, who was one of the fiercest oppo- The letter was intercepted by Jerome Kirsi Stjerna Carol A. Newsom for the Kessler Reformation nents of the Reformation movement. The Schurff, a professor of law at the Collection Rev. Kirsi Stjerna is professor of Professor Carol A. Newsom is the Charles The major theologians of the three women—Hanna von Draschwitz, University of Wittenberg, and published Policy direction for the Reformation Collection is provided by Reformation church history and direc- Howard Candler Professor of Old a standing committee composed of representatives of Emory Reformation were men. Women were Milia von Ölsnitz, and Ursula von in 1523 by him without Luther’s knowl- University and the local and national Lutheran community. tor of the Institute for Luther Studies at Testament at Candler School of Theology typically expected to be wives and moth- Feylitzen—were ladies-in-waiting to the edge or consent. The Kessler Collection the Lutheran Theological Seminary at and director of the Graduate Division of Mr. Richard C. Kessler, Chair ers or possibly to take monastic vows. duke’s wife and had been found reading holds the extremely rare first printing of Mr. Roy T. Wise, Secretary Gettysburg (LTSG). Born in Finland and Religion, Laney Graduate School, Emory Mr. Richard Lane Brown III While there certainly were well-educated books by Martin Luther. All three were the letter that never actually reached the Bishop H. Julian Gordy earning a PhD from Boston University University. Newsom received a PhD from women, especially in the cities and summarily dismissed from Heinrich’s addressees. Dr. M. Patrick Graham (1995), Stjerna came to the LTSG in Harvard University and is the author Dean Jan Love among the nobility, they were the excep- court in Freiberg in 1523. When Luther It remains to be noted that in 1536 Ms. Betty Mori 2000. She was ordained in the Evangelical of seven books and scores of articles, Mr. David Parsons tion rather than the norm. Martin Luther learned of their expulsion from his close Duke Heinrich embraced Lutheran Church in Finland and is on book chapters, translations, encyclope- Mr. Mathew Pinson was an early proponent for universal friend, Nicolaus von Amsdorff, he penned after years of insistence by his wife Ms. Laura VanTil the roster of the Evangelical Lutheran dia articles, and reviews. As a member education to be offered to boys and girls a short letter of consolation, informing Katharina von Mecklenburg. This change Emeriti Members Church of America. In addition to her of the team responsible for the edition equally, but even he would probably them of his appreciation for their courage was much to the chagrin of Heinrich’s Dr. James R. Crumley teaching in the historical-theological and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dr. Channing R. Jeschke not have been able to imagine a woman and exhorting them not to lose faith. He brother Georg, who even attempted to The Reverend R. Kevin LaGree division at the LTSG, she organizes the she has published a major collection of Bishop Harold C. Skillrud teaching, for example, at the University wrote: bribe Katharina to leave Freiberg. She Dr. James L. Waits annual Luther Colloquy that is spon- liturgical texts as well as several other of Wittenberg. Nevertheless, women “And even if your conscience tell you refused the offer, and after Georg’s death sored by the Institute for Luther Studies. Qumran texts. Other publications include were significant participants in the that you are in fault, you must not despair in 1539 she and her husband relocated Scholars Advisory Committee Professor Stjerna is the author of Women a monograph on self-formation in sectar- Dr. Kurt K. Hendel, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Reformation, some of whom took great on that account. For it is a precious sign to Dresden, where they introduced the and the Reformation (2008), Martin ian community and a commentary and Dr. Scott H. Hendrix, Princeton Theological Seminary risks in supporting the new religious that God has so soon led you to repen- Reformation. Dr. Robin A. Leaver, Westminster Choir College, Rider University Luther, the Bible and the Jewish People a monograph on the book of Job. She Dr. Martin Treu, Director of the Lutherhalle-Wittenberg movement. tance. And reflect that if even you wished Dr. Timothy J. Wengert, Lutheran Theological Seminary with Brooks Schramm (2012), No Greater has received several prestigious research in Philadelphia An interesting example is the case of to injure them, you could accomplish ______Jewel: Thinking of Baptism with Luther fellowships, including grants from the three young women at the court of Duke nothing. For it is a sacred matter for * The full text of the English translation of the (2009), and Reformaation Naisia (2010). National Endowment for the Humanities Patrons Heinrich IV of Saxony (1473–1541). which you suffer, which God will permit letter can be found at http://en.wikisource. Emory University In addition, she is a general editor, with and the Henry Luce Foundation, and she Heinrich was critical of Luther and typi- no one but Himself to revenge. ‘He that org/wiki/Page:The_letters_of_Martin_Luther. Mr. Richard C. and Mrs. Martha Kessler Hans Hillerbrand and Timothy Wengert, has won several awards for excellence The Lutheran Brotherhood cally deferred to his older brother, Duke toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his djvu/152. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans of The Essential Luther (6 volumes, forth- in teaching and mentoring. A frequent e y e ,’ He s ay s .” * coming), and editor of volume 2 of The lecturer, Newsom also sits on multiple Sustaining Partners Word in The Essential Luther. Finally, she editorial boards. She recently served Mr. David M. and Mrs. Faye H. Holland Munich American Reassurance Company is cochair of the group, “Martin Luther as president of the Society of Biblical Mr. Roy T. Wise and the Global Lutheran Traditions” Literature and is a senior fellow at in the American Academy of Religion, Emory’s Center for the Study of Law Partners Dr. Timothy E. and Mrs. Tamara Albrecht and was recipient of the Association of and Religion. Mr. N. M. Anderson Theological Schools’ Scholars’ Grant in Mr. Erwin G. and Mrs. Ann H. Baumer Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley 2004 and 2010. Dr. Hendrikus W. and Mrs. Ida G. Boers Mr. Richard Lane and Mrs. Vicki Brown III Mr. C. Gregg and Mrs. Genie T. Burch Dr. Penelope Campbell Dr. Grady S. And Mrs. Margaret C. Clinkscales Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Crick The Rev. Raymond E. and Mrs. Rachel Davis Jr. Honor Roll of Donors Since September 2012 Mr. Joseph Bernard Foltz (Foltz Martin LLC) Mr. William H. and Mrs. Carolyn S. Gaik Dr. M. Patrick and Mrs. Doris J. Graham A special word of thanks to the following persons for their generous contributions Dr. Channing R. and Mrs. Carol A. Jeschke toward the purchase of books and pamphlets for the Kessler Collection this year: Mr. and Mrs. Callie W. Kessler Mr. Carl F. Lettow Jr. Mr. John C. and Mrs. Frances F. McCune The Honorable Dorothy Toth Beasley Mr. Mathew A. Pinson Dr. R. Stephen and Mrs. Caron G. Morgan Mr. Jean A. and Mrs. Betty Mori Dr. John G. Cook and Ms. Barbara T. Horton Dr. Walker L. Ray and Mrs. Nancy Ray Mr. R. David and Mrs. Mary B. Parsons Chaplain Gordon Gabram and Mrs. Carol Gabram Dr. Ted Runyon and Mrs. Cindy Runyon Dr. Frank L. and Mrs. Anne D. Perry Jr. Mr. William E. and Mrs. Janie S. Pielop III Mrs. Naomi B. Gibeling The Rev. Dr. Mark A. Scott and Mrs. Karen Scott Dr. Walker L. Ray and Mrs. Nancy Ray Dr. Pat Graham and Mrs. Doris Graham Mrs. Else B. Shewmake Dr. Russell E. and Mrs. Merle Richey The Rev. Dr. Mark Andrew and Mrs. Karen Green Scott Mr. Richard C. Kessler and Mrs. Martha Kessler Mr. Paul Summer and Mrs. Debra Summer Dr. Jan Love and Dr. Peter Sederberg Ms. Velda H. Skagen Dr. Jan Love and Dr. Peter Sederberg Dr. Paul Walter and Dr. Jonne Barney Walter Southeastern Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mr. Jean A. Mori and Mrs. Betty Nunn Mori Mr. Frank E. Wise and Mrs. Kathleen S. Wise The Memorial Fund of St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Illinois, and Bishop and Mrs. Harold C. Skillrud Mr. David Parsons Mr. Roy T. Wise Mr. Clair E. Strommen Mr. William Ernest Pielop III and Mr. Mark E. and Mrs. Laura VanTil Bishop Ronald B. and Mrs. Neva Warren Mrs. Janie S. Pielop Mr. Joe H and Mrs. Lorela Nichols Wilkins Jr. Martin Luther’s letter to the three banished women Mr. Rudolph and Mrs. Anne Yobs

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