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Reformation Day Explores Law and Grace M r NEWS FOReformation PARTNERS OF THE RICHARD C. KESSLER REFORMATION COLLECTION n • SUMMERotes 2016 • NUMBER 51 “Scripture and Reform” —Revisit the Reformation Day 2015 discussion. Page 4 Reflecting on how far we’ve come in nearly 30 years of the Kessler Reformation Collection. Page 6 Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Gesetz und Evangelium (1529) highlights the theme of Reformation Day at Emory 2016. REFORMATION DAY EXPLORES LAW AND GRACE M. Patrick Graham aw and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation is the title of the 29th-annual Reformation Day at Emory program, scheduled for Thursday, October L 27 (complete program on page 8). This year we will explore the renowned Reformation painting of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Law and Grace, from the standpoints of art history, biblical studies, and theology. The day’s events will begin with registration and reception, followed by a review of highlights from the year’s acquisitions and the new exhibit devoted to the elaboration of the Cranach painting. This year’s chapel service features the Candler singers, musicians, and a sermon by Anthony A. Briggman, assistant professor of the history of early Christianity (Candler School of Theology), entitled, “Grace Then, Grace Today, Grace Always.” Prof. Briggman came to Candler in 2011 and in 2016 won a Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Graduate Education/ Instruction. His research has focused on Irenaeus of Lyon and the theology of the early church. As in years past, the Candler Singers will offer a musical presentation at the luncheon that fol- lows, this year under the direction of David B. Daniel, Candler’s new director of chapel music. The afternoon program will consist of three engaging lectures that unfold the significance of Cranach’s iconic painting. Opening the afternoon program is Prof. Bonnie Noble’s lecture, “Law and Gospel and the Strategies of Pictorial Rhetoric.” This illustrated presentation examines continued on next page Summer 2016 • 1 Reformation Day Explores Law and Grace Impressions of Law and Grace Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Allegory of Prof. Joel M. LeMon, associate programs, and this year his lecture will we see Moses with the tablets of the A similar border appears in a 1546 Law and Gospel (circa 1529), the first professor of Old Testament at Candler close the afternoon program: “Cranach, Armin Siedlecki Lucas Cranach commandments, Adam and Eve next to Leipzig edition of Luther’s lection- definitively Lutheran painting. On the School of Theology, follows with an ‘Law and Gospel,’ and the Protestant the Elder (1472–1553) was one of the the tree of the knowledge of good and ary sermons. In case of the latter, the left side of this divided composition analysis of the rich biblical aspects of Theological Tradition.” Here Strom best-known German artists of the evil, God sitting in judgment, and death allegory is made explicit by the use of appear motifs that exemplify what Cranach’s painting. The work contrasts illuminates the impact of Cranach’s 16th century. Appointed court painter as a skeleton pursuing a man toward explanatory labels with each symbolic Luther contended was the legalism of several iconographic motifs from the work on the Reformation and the years to the Saxon Elector Frederick the people engulfed in the flames of Hell. component. the old (Catholic) church. The opposite Old Testament that stand in contrast that followed. Arriving at Candler to Wise, he also sat on the city council of On the side of life Christ emerges from Another adaptation of the image is side of the image delineates the tenets with New Testament images. The teach church history in 1997, Strom is Wittenberg and served as mayor on the tomb and subdues found in book bindings, which were of Lutheran faith and so teaches the lecture will explore the remarkably currently associate dean of faculty and death; the person typically commissioned by a book’s beholders Luther’s biblical truth. Noble complex role that Scripture plays in academic affairs and the director of shown fleeing on the owner rather than being provided is associate professor of art history this work and discuss the iconography international initiatives. His research left side appears on the by the printer in the 16th century. A at the University of North Carolina of Scripture in the painting. LeMon interests include Pietism in continental right next to John the common decorative technique was at Charlotte, recipient of the Harold joined the Candler faculty in 2007, and Europe, the history of the Protestant Baptist, who points to blind tooling, in which brass stamps or J. Grimm Prize from the Sixteenth his research focuses on the Psalms, the clergy, and the emergence of modern Christ on the cross; and rollers were heated and then pressed or Century Society and Conference as reception history of the Bible, and the forms of piety and religious practice. various other features rolled over leath- well as several grants and fellowships. historical context of the Old Testament. He has written widely on the clergy, of Christian imagery er stretched over Her research specialty is the art of the His recent work includes Yahweh’s lay religion, and reform movements decorate the panel. wooden boards. Northern Renaissance, particularly Winged Form in the Psalms: Exploring in post-Reformation Germany and The allegory became Sometimes the 16th-century German painting, and her Congruent Iconography and Texts is the author/editor of three books, very popular and was initials of the investigations of Cranach’s work have (2010); Image, Text, Exegesis (coeditor, most recently Pietism and Community quickly adapted to owner or a date appeared in the internationally recog- 2015); and Picturing Righteous Violence in Europe and North America, 1650– a variety of media. would be tooled nized Khan Academy’s curriculum. in the Psalms and Ancient Near Eastern 1850 (Brill, 2010). A Fulbright Scholar, Examples can be found into the leather, Art. LeMon has studied at Stellenbosch Strom has also received grants from Lucas Cranach the Elder, Gesetz und Evangelium among the title page and often an University in South Africa (2001– the Lilly Foundation, the Association (1529) borders of publica- image would be 2002), where he currently holds the of Theological Schools, and Emory’s tions, such as the German translation blind stamped title associate professor extraordinary. University Research Committee. several occasions. Cranach was not of Melanchthon’s Loci communes onto the front He is an ordained elder in the Virginia only an early supporter of Luther, but (Wittenberg, 1536), the first systematic and back covers. Annual Conference of the United All events are free of charge and open also one of his closest friends, serving theology written by a Protestant author. A special case Methodist Church. to the public. n as a witness at his wedding and as is the Kessler Prof. Jonathan Strom has appeared godfather to his first son Johannes. Collection’s copy Noble, LeMon, Strom, Briggman in several Reformation Day at Emory The image that most have of Martin Luther is based on his portrait of of Veit Dietrich’s the reformer, and many of Luther’s Summaria Martin Luther, Auslegung der writings were published with woodcut vber die gantze Euangelien . (1546) illustrations by the great artist. Bibel (Summary Cranach’s allegorical image of of the Entire “Here I stand . .” Luther Exhibitions USA 2016 Law and Grace (Gesetz und Gnade) Bible; Nuremberg, 1548), which has a may be the most succinct visual 16th-century binding of blind-tooled 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, Museum Berlin, and the Foundation Schloss Friedenstein Gotha. representation of one of the central pigskin that adapts Cranach’s allegory his protest against the sale of indulgences and commonly Each exhibit is different but all open simultaneously in October theological tenets of the Lutheran of law and grace by depicting the left viewed as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. This at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, the Minneapolis Reformation—justification by grace half of the image on the front cover anniversary will be observed with exhibits, lectures, and other Institute of Art, and the Pitts Theology Library in Atlanta (here alone. He first painted the image of a and the right half on the back cover. programs around the world. with support of the Halle Foundation, Atlanta). tree dead on one side but flourishing The book’s cover thus mirrors the In the United States three major exhibits will commemorate These three splendid exhibits feature materials that have on the other in 1529, but he produced Bible’s story, as it moves from judgment Luther’s work, thanks to the generosity of the German Federal never before left Germany and reveal something of the cultural various other paintings and woodcuts and death in the Garden of Eden to Foreign Office and the creativity of four German museums: and historical richness of Luther’s homeland in Central Germany. of the same allegory, all of which share Philipp Melanchthon, Loci com- grace and life in Christ’s final victory the State Museum of Prehistory Halle, the Luther Memorials Together they introduce American audiences to the world of common motifs. On the side of death munes (1536) in Revelation. n Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, the Deutsches Historisches Luther and invite all to visit Germany in 2017 to see the rest. 2 • Reformation Notes Summer 2016 • 3 2015 Reformation Day at Emory 4 th 1 The 28th Reformation Day at Emory program took as its theme Rebekah Bedard, Richard 3 7 and Martha Kessler “Scripture and Reform: The Ten Commandments as Jewish Law, Christian Gospel, and Civic Code,” and keynote lectures elaborated the role of the 2 Floyd Craig, Andy Krey, Pat Graham, Rodney Decalogue in the Hebrew Bible, Luther’s reform, and contemporary Peterson, Frank Woodson 6 American life.
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