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Reformation Notes News for Par Tners of the Richard C Reformation Notes News for Par tners of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Spring 2006, Number 28 KesslerCollectionUpdate M. Patrick Graham heProtestantReformationofthe The Kessler Collection of Pitts Tsixteenthcenturywasthepivotal religiousmovementinWesternculture Theology Library at Emory sincetheintroductionofChristianity, University is the best single source andthepurposeoftheRichardC.Kessler ReformationCollectionhasbeento of early Protestant Reformation documentthatreformationinGermany. imprints in North America. Thecollectionhassetouttogathermate- rialsthatwouldgivehistoriansandtheo- The collection is a treasure for all The Richard C. Kessler Reformation logianstheopportunitytohearthefull of us at Emory University and for Collection is a repository of rare rangeofvoicesthatwereraisedinthis and valuable documents produced dynamicperiod.AstheKesslerCollection all of us who labor in Reformation in connection with the Protestant entersitsnineteenthyear,wepauseto and early modern history. Reformation. The collection now takestockofitsaccomplishmentsand —John Witte Jr. contains more than 3,100 pieces callattentiontowhatliesonthehorizon. Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Emory written by Martin Luther, his continued on page 2 colleagues, and opponents, and printed during their lifetimes. Supported by the vision and resources of Lutheran laypeople Richard and Martha Kessler and partners throughout the Southeast, the collection is housed in the Pitts Theology Library of Candler School of Theology. It provides a rich resource for scholars of the Reformation and for clergy and laity who seek to understand the history of the Christian faith. For more information about the collection, contact: M. Patrick Graham Pitts Theology Library Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 404.727.4165 [email protected] From volume one (1551 printing) of the Wittenberg edition of Luther’s collected works. Pitts Theology Library • Candler School of Theology Emory University • Atlanta, Georgia 30322 The Kessler Collection has assembled, in a relatively short time, an amazing treasure of Reformation tracts and literature and has made these available to all through its unsurpassed digitization of Reformation woodcuts and its annual program of music, lectures, and publications. —Timothy J. Wengert, Ministerium of Pennsylvania Professor, Reformation History, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Kessler Collection Update— LutherRoseatwww.pitts.emory.edu). continued from page 1 GrantsfromtheAmericanTheological LibraryAssociation($18,000),the CarpenterFoundation($63,000), Collections ThriventFinancialforLutherans heholdingsofthecollectionnow Foundation($25,000),andseveralindi- Texceeds3,100items,amarkapproxi- vidualshaveunderwrittenthecostsof matedbyonlytwootherlibrariesin thisprogram.Atlastcount,anaverageof NorthAmerica(HarvardUniversity almostfivehundredvisitorsloggedonto andtheFolgerShakespeareLibrary); theDIAeachday,andasearchofthe noAmericanlibraryapproachesthe Internetturnedupabout4,000linksto KesslerCollection’s900+publications thearchive.Inadditiontomanyindivid- byLutherhimself.Itistypicallythecase uals,churches,andotherorganizations thatabouthalfofthematerialsacquired usingtheimagesfornon-commercial eachyeararenotheldbyanyotherNorth purposes,thefollowingpublishershave Americanlibrary;andinanotherquarter purchasedimagesfortheirpublications: ofthecases,onlyoneotherlibraryhas From Hortulus Animae, AbingdonPress,AshgatePublishing, acopy.Inafewinstances,theKessler Wittenberg, 1550. AugsburgFortressPress,Cambridge Collectioncopyistheonlyoneknownto UniversityPress,ConcordiaPublishing exist.Thesematerialsarecurrentlyvalued House,GeorgetownUniversity inexcessof$4,000,000.Detailsabout Educational Outreach Press,Lectionary Homiletics,Palgrave thestrengthsofthecollectionhavebeen heKesslerCollectionhassponsored Macmillan,andPaternosterPress. gatheredbyArminSiedleckiinhisarticle Teighteenconcertandlecturepro- onpagethree.Thecollectionhasbeen gramsthathavebroughtinternationally Facilities growingbymorethanfiftypieceseach renownedscholarsandmusiciansto heCandlerSchoolofTheologyhas year,anditshouldnotbelonguntilthe theEmorycampustoexplorehistori- Tplannedtobeginconstructionona thousandthpublicationbyMartinLuther calaspectsoftheGermanReformation newfacilityforthePittsTheologyLibrary isacquired. andattestitsongoinginfluenceonthe in2008.Thisstructurewillsupportthe contemporaryworld.Thisprogramhas KesslerCollectionandtherestofspecial Research maturedintotheannualReformation collectionsinseveralimportantways. ostofthosewhousetheKessler DayatEmoryseries,whichattracted .Itwillprovidesecure,high-density MCollectioncomefromlocaledu- morethansixhundredtothe2005con- shelvingwithadry-agent,fireprotec- cationalinstitutions—Emory,Atlanta cert.Inaddition,eachyearlibrarystaff tionsystemforallspecialcollections University,ColumbiaTheological makepresentationsofKesslerCollection materials. Seminary,GeorgiaStateUniversity, materialstoadozenormoregroups— .Therewillbeaseparatespecialcol- andothers.Itisincreasinglythecase, numberingthreehundredtofourhun- lectionsreadingroomforresearchers, though,thatresearcherscomefrom dredpersonsinall—thatcomefromcivic aswellasassignableresearchcarrels outsideAtlanta.Indeed,therecentmeet- groups,churches,collegesandseminaries, forlonger-termprojects. ingoftheSixteenthCenturySociety andevenelementaryschools.Inaddition, .Aseparateexhibitroomwithstate- ConferenceinAtlantabroughtthecol- thecollectionhasproducedanddistrib- of-the-artdisplaycasesandanadja- lectiontotheattentionofmanyaddi- utedgratisthousandsofbookmarks,note centlecturehallwillaccommodate tionalReformationscholars.TheKessler cards,andpostersduringthistime. largerexhibitsandmorevisitorsthan Collectionalsohasstimulatedthepubli- thecurrentfacilitysupports. cationofafour-volumebibliographythat Digital Resources .Ascanninglabwillbepartofthe examinesindetailthefirst1,400itemsin inally,thecollectionprovidedthe library’stechnologyoperation;itwill thecollection,aphotographicreproduc- Finitialimpulseforthecreationof permitasustainedefforttomakethe tionoftheMagdeburgEnchiridionof theDigitalImageArchive(DIA),a richesoftheKesslerCollectionavail- 1536withnotes,acollectionofessayson resourceofabout13,000woodcutsand abletotheworld. RN Melanchthonandthecommentary,and engravings,madeavailableatnocharge severalpamphletsonReformationtopics. forteachingandresearchviathePitts M. Patrick Graham is Librarian and Margaret TheologyLibraryhomepage(clickonthe A. Pitts Professor of Theological Bibliography. 2 Reformation Notes ReformandthePress Armin Siedlecki intheChurchandwasthemostprolific heculturalimpactoftheinvention authorinthesixteenthcentury.Other Standing Committee for the TandspreadoftheInternetinthelate influentialfiguresintheReformation Kessler Reformation Collection twentiethcenturyhasbeencomparedto movementwereMelanchthon, Policy direction for the Reformation Collection is provided by a standing thatoftheinventionoftheprintingpress Bugenhagen,Brenz,FlaciusIllyricus, committee composed of representatives inthefifteenthcentury.Itisundoubtedly andKarlstadt,althoughtherewasoften of Emory University and the local and truethattheReformation,asitunfolded agooddealofdebateamongthesetheo- national Lutheran community. acrossEuropeinthesixteenthcentury, logiansastowhatshapethereformation Mr. Richard C. Kessler, Chair wouldhavebeenunthinkablewithout shouldtake. Mr. Roy T. Wise, Secretary Dr. Timothy Albrecht thenewtechnology.Yet,despitetheobvi- Ms. Mary Lou Greenwood Boice ousadvantages,Lutherhimself—aswell Opponents of Luther Dr. M. Patrick Graham asmanyofhisfellowreformers—was rasmusofRotterdamwastheleading Dean Russell E. Richey Bishop Ronald B. Warren oftencriticalofthisthen-relativelyrecent Ehumanisttheologianofthesixteenth invention,claimingthatitledtothepro- century,andthoughhewasinitially Emeriti Members Dr. James R. Crumley liferationofuselessandsometimesharm- sympathetictoLuther’scause,hecame Dr. Channing R. Jeschke fulbooks.However,therapidspreadof toopposethereformerlaterindebates The Reverend R. Kevin LaGree printedmaterialalsoledtoanenormous Bishop Harold C. Skillrud Dr. James L. Waits expansionineducationalpossibilities. AccordingtoscholarR.A.Houston,“The Kessler Holdings of Scholars Advisory Committee duchyofWürttemberghad89schoolsin Eight Catholic Authors Dr. Kurt K. Hendel 1520comparedwithmorethan400by Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Desiderius Erasmus 74 Dr. Scott H. Hendrix 1600.”1Atthebeginningofthesixteenth Johannes Cochlaeus 39 Princeton Theological Seminary century,fiftyyearsafterGutenberg, Dr. Robin A. Leaver Johann Eck 44 Westminster Choir College, Rider University afairlydensenetworkofpresseshad Georg Witzel 30 Dr. Martin Treu spreadthroughoutmuchofWestern Pope Leo X 22 Director of the Lutherhalle-Wittenberg Europe,withprintinghousesinabout Dr. Timothy J. Wengert Hieronymus Emser 16 Lutheran Theological Seminary sixtyGermancities.Thebeginningofthe Thomas Murner 3 in Philadelphia Reformationin1517alsocoincideswith Johann Tetzel 1 avirtualexplosionofprinting.Muchof Patrons of the Kessler thisincreaseisrepresentedbythepub- Reformation Collection licationofpamphlets,orFlugschriften, aboutthefreedomofthehumanwilland Emory University Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Kessler throughwhichmanyreformersandtheir theideaofjustification.JohannEckwas The Lutheran Brotherhood opponentscarriedoutpublicdebatesin oneofLuther’sfierceropponents,debat- oftensharplyformulatedattacks.Shorter ingLutheratapublicdisputation—initi- Partners of the Kessler workslikesuchpamphletsorsermons atedbyKarlstadtin1518atLeipzig—and
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