Historical TheoBlogy http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy blogging through the history of theology one blog at a time Mon, 31 May 2010 21:17:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Refo500 @ SBTS in Louisville, KY - Sept. 2010 http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=426 http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=426#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 20:52:03 +0000 todd http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=426 For those of you excited about the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 (its never too early, right?), check out the Refo500 Foundation (NL: Stichtung Refo500), which just launched an English version of their web-site detailing various exhibitions, trips, conferences, seminars, and so forth. The first council meeting for its US complement, Refo500 Council North America, will meet in June on the Emory Law School campus in Atlanta, GA. The first stateside Reformation conference in the US will be held at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY on September 27th -28th. There are several US seminaries that have become institutional partners and sponsors. Dr. Herman Selderhuis is the director of the Refo500 Foundation in the Netherlands, Dr. David Hall is his counter-part in the US. Stay tuned to this site, there are great things on the horizon. For more info, see here.

Celebration Reformation: Challenges and Chances between now and 2017

(tentative schedule Monday September 27th @ SBTS (contact Dr. David Hall for more info).

  • 1100-1300 Registration
  • 1300 Welcome to Refo500: a project that connects - Karla Apperloo-Boersma, Refo500
  • 1330 Semper Reformanda: The Reformation as a movement of renewal and change - Herman Selderhuis, Refo500, Theological University Apeldoorn
  • 1400 Celebrating the Reformation:an interdenominational challenge - Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School
  • 1430 Discussion

  • 1500 Coffeebreak

  • 1530 Going Europe: trips and travels to the Reformation - Witte Travel
  • 1600 Rediscovering the laity- The Reformation in pew and class - Joel Beeke, Puritan Theological Seminary
  • 1630 Luther’s theology and its relevance for today - Erik Herrmann, Concordia Lutheran Seminary
  • 1700 Discussion
  • 1730 Dinner
  • 1900 Coming to America - Coming to Heidelberg - Frieder Hepp, Palatinate Museum Heidelberg
  • 1930 Plenary Address - Albert Mohler, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • 2000 Reception
]]> http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?feed=rss2&p=426 Google Books: The New Rare e-Book Seller? http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=417 http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=417#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 05:44:21 +0000 todd http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=417 For those of us in the humanities, theology, philosophy, and other such fields heavily reliant on rare books, I have to say I just read this in the Wall Street Journal (and this, this, and this) regarding Google Books new business plan and swallowed hard. Dare I dream that this will affect only copyrighted books? I am a little skeptical, but here’s hoping judiciaries internationally allow public domain content to remain public domain even online. Google does have to settle the copyright/public domain/institutional/international patrimony issues surrounding the rare books they have scanned to date before they could sell them I suppose. Of course, technically they are Google’s images, but I hope that for educational purposes they will remain open. I was comforted just a little to read from this blog, “For now, Google Editions will only allow users to read in-print books, since Google can’t yet distribute out-of-print books.” I also have to wonder where the DOJ will take this issue given their Feb 5 stance against Google.

… for some reason, I have a sudden urge to download like mad …

ADDENDUM: It appears it may be that as usual we are dependent on Google’s generosity, as the issue of selling out of print books is out of print copyrighted books. However, one of Google’s product manager posted this 9 months ago. Hmm. … still downloading.

]]> http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?feed=rss2&p=417 e-rara.ch http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=407 http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=407#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:10:39 +0000 todd http://rester.us/HistoricalTheoBlogy/?p=407 This Swiss digitization project has made quite a splash in the last week or so. If you are interested in rare 16th century works published in Switzerland, you really must check out www.e-rara.ch. This represents a digitization project among the following Swiss institutions at the moment: the Bibliothèque de Genève, ETH-Library Zürich, Basel University Library, University of Bern, and the Zürich Central Library. The images of rare works are publicly available for free, in high quality, for download in PDF, and the site is multi-lingual. At the moment there are well over 800 works ranging from16th - 19th c. works, but the project leader at ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Dr. Franziska Geisser, states that more than 10k works should be available by the end of 2011. That’s about 2.5 million pages of rare Swiss books! The original announcements were posted on the E-lib.ch blog  in French and German, for a news article from a Zürich news outlet (NZZ) try here.

In addition to the normal search options, it is possible to search by publisher. This is quite a helpful feature when tracking down rare editions in a certain time frame. Overall, the site is exceptionally well done and easy to use. Enjoy! I have found such treasures as Sadoleto’s 1540 letter to the council of Geneva, Calvin’s 1547 comments on the Council of Trent, Calvin’s 1550 Institutio, Bullinger’s 1532 commentary on Hebrews, Daneau’s Ethices Christianae (1582), and Zwingli’s 1530 De Vera et Falsa Religione.

I must say I would not have known of this site without the reference from a good friend in Geneva and fellow doctoral student. Thanks Albert!

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