Emory University Pitts Theology Library 505 Kilgo Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 REFORMATION NOTES News for Partners of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Summer 2012, Number 45 2012 Reformation Day at Emory The twenty-fifth Reformation Day at Emory will be held on Thursday, October 25, and takes as its theme, The Kessler Collection after Twenty- Five Years. This year’s program celebrates the first twenty-five years of the Kessler Collection by noting its value for The Richard C. Kessler Reformation Reformation Day at Emory Schedule 2012 Collection is a repository of rare scholars, students, and the church. and valuable documents produced We are delighted, therefore, Each year Candler School of Theology celebrates Reformation Day with a program of lectures, worship, exhibits, and music. in connection with the Protestant This year’s Reformation Day at Emory takes place on Thursday, October 25, 2012, and celebrates the first twenty-five years Reformation. The collection now to have Presiding Bishop contains more than 3,500 pieces of the Kessler Collection by noting its value for scholars, students, and the church. All events are free of charge and open to Mark S. Hanson of the the public. written by Martin Luther, his colleagues, and his opponents, and Evangelical Lutheran printed during their lifetimes. 9:00–9:45 a.m. Registration and Reception; Formal Lounge, Cannon Chapel Church in America, 10:00–10:45 a.m. “ The Spirit in Worship: Lutheran Theology of the Activity of the Holy Spirit in Hearing God’s Word,” Rev. Jan Rippentrop, doctoral student, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University—Sanctuary, Supported by the vision and Dewey W. Kramer resources of Lutheran laypeople Cannon Chapel (Professor Emerita of 11:00–11:50 a.m. Chapel Service, J. Neil Alexander, dean of the School of Theology at Sewanee: The University Richard and Martha Kessler and of the South, preaching—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel partners throughout the Southeast, German, Humanities, and the collection is housed in the Pitts 12:15–1:30 p.m. Luncheon Musical Program, Rev. Barbara Day Miller, Associate Dean of Worship and Music and Religion at Georgia Perimeter College), Assistant Professor in the Practice of Liturgy; and the Candler Singers. Please make reservations for the Theology Library of Candler School luncheon by calling 404.727.6352 or emailing [email protected].—Cox Hall of Theology. It provides a rich J. Neil Alexander (Dean of the School resource for scholars of the Several pieces 1:45–2:45 p.m. “A Living, Daring Confidence,” Bishop Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran of Theology at Sewanee: The University Church in America—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel Reformation and for clergy acquired for the Kessler 2:45–3:15 p.m. Refreshments and Break—Formal Lounge, Cannon Chapel and laity who seek to understand of the South), and Rev. Jan Rippentrop Collection during the past year the history of the Christian faith. 3:30–4:30 p.m. “The Man Who Loosed Luther’s German Tongue: New Approaches to Johann Tetzel,” (doctoral student at Emory University) as Professor Emerita Dewey W. Kramer, Georgia Perimeter College—Sanctuary, Cannon Chapel For more information about our guest speakers. .5 CEUs will be awarded to those who request continuing education credit. To receive credit, participants must attend the collection, contact: Jan Rippentrop, Lutheran pastor and doctoral student in liturgy at Emory’s Graduate all Reformation Day events, print and submit the request form (CE course 664) at www.pitts.emory.edu/community/ M. Patrick Graham alumni/CEU_Request_Form.pdf along with a $10 payment (checks made payable to Emory University) to Pitts Division of Religion, has titled her illustrated lecture “The Spirit in Worship: Lutheran Pitts Theology Library Theology Library, 505 Kilgo Circle NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. A certificate of attendance will be mailed following Theology of the Activity of the Holy Spirit in Hearing God’s Word.” Rooted in questions the event. Emory University arising from the congregational context in which she served, Rev. Rippentrop will draw Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Scan the code with your smartphone for more information on Reformation Day. on Luther’s theology of the work of the Holy Spirit. She will consider what is at stake 404.727.4165 for worshippers, approaching the topic by looking at Prayers for Illumination. She will [email protected] continued on page 2 Pitts Theology Library • Candler School of Theology 112086-1 © 2012, a publication of Emory Creative Group, a department of Communications and Marketing Emory University • Atlanta, Georgia 30322 2012 Reformation Day at Emory— continued from page 1 Collection Update M. Patrick Graham in the second half of the sixteenth century the bounty of this collection is promul- and attacked human vice as the work of gated far and wide.” The year marks the twenty-fifth anni- the devil. Andreas Musculus was a student This program began in conversations versary of the Kessler Reformation of Luther’s and issued a small book, Wider between Richard Kessler and my prede- Collection, and with the addition of den Eheteuffel (1568), that attacked the cessor, Channing Jeschke, and today we twenty-five new titles, the collection now idea of celibacy in these terms. are all heirs to their vision and careful stands at 3,540 pieces (1,020 of which Christoph Mandel, a Jewish convert work and have much for which to be are by Luther himself) and is insured to Christianity, published a small vol- thankful. for $5,200,000. Sixty-four percent of this ume in 1536 (Das Jesus Christus year’s acquisitions are not held by any sey dz ewig götlich Wort . .) Mark Hanson Dewey Weiss J. Neil Alexander Jan Rippentrop other American library, and another that sought to defend elements Kramer 24 percent are only held by one other in the Apostles’ Creed on the American institution. Such illustrates basis of the Hebrew Bible. A first offer a sketch of what is known of description of faith as a “living, daring Through his written challenge to one of the major contributions that the striking woodcut of the resur- the origins of these prayers, which call on confidence in God’s grace,” Hanson will Luther, Tetzel becomes the catalyst for Kessler Collection makes to scholar- rected Christ, inscribed with ten God the Father to send the Holy Spirit explore the opportunities for a Lutheran the reformer to examine more quickly ship by bringing many works from the elements from the influential to illumine the Word of God. From the witness to the Gospel and engagement and intensely the key concerns that Reformation period to the United States Kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram perspective of one who is working with with the public life of a richly pluralistic would bring about his break with the for the first time. (right), suggests to the reader that the materials of the Kessler Collection and diverse culture that at the same time Catholic Church, and to discover the Acquisitions during the past year Christ is himself the new tree of to excavate Lutheran liturgical develop- is marked by increasing partisanship and reforming power of his native German. include seven works by Martin Luther life for Christian devotion. ments, she will trace some of the disap- disparities between rich and poor, privi- Expanding on the reassessment of Tetzel and one each by other notable reformers: Twenty-five years of hard pearances and reappearances of Prayer leged and marginalized people. suggested by this work, Kramer will offer Martin Bucer, John Calvin, and Philipp work and generous contributions for Illumination language, drawing out “The Man Who Loosed Luther’s an overview of the steps taken during Melanchthon. One of the most impor- by friends and supporters of the the implications these may have for our German Tongue: New Approaches to the twentieth century toward increased tant works acquired this year is the first Reformation Collection have cre- worship life and our understanding of Johann Tetzel” is the title of Dewey understanding between the Catholic and edition of Opuscula (Leipzig, 1537), a ated this splendid resource for how we hear the Word of God. Weiss Kramer’s lecture, which examines Lutheran communions. This movement large folio volume that gathers thirteen the academy and the church. In We are also pleased to welcome Johann Tetzel’s Vorlegung (Rebuttal) derived importantly from both Catholic anti-Reformation tracts by Johann Faber the words of Professor Timothy Professor J. Neil Alexander as the preach- (Leipzig: M. Lotter, 1518), a rebut- and Lutheran scholarship. It thus illus- (Johann Heigerlin). Faber had initially Wengert (Lutheran Theological er for the Reformation Day at Emory tal to Luther’s Sermon von dem Ablass trates the importance of returning to been receptive to Luther’s reforms but Seminary at Philadelphia), “The chapel program. Alexander became the und Gnade (Sermon on Indulgences and original sources and has implications for turned against him from 1522 on. He Kessler Collection . com- ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Grace), which was reprinted fourteen today’s ongoing ecumenical relations. became bishop of Vienna in 1530 and memorates the most impor- Atlanta in 2001, and in August 2012 he times in 1518. Examination of this docu- All events are free of charge and open was a member of the commission to tant religious event of the past became dean of the School of Theology ment grows out of Kramer’s translation to the public. evaluate the Augsburg Confession. 1,500 years: the European at Sewanee: The University of the South. of Tetzel’s “double” pamphlet (Tetzel In addition, several of this year’s Reformations. Proper remember- He has served in the parish, taught at the quotes Luther’s entire sermon within acquisitions that are not held by other ing of such an event involves two General Theological Seminary (New York his response), which articulates suc- American libraries are particularly inter- things: preservation and prom- City) as the Trinity Church Professor cinctly both the initial impetus for the esting and worth comment.