Guide to the Van Austin Harvey Papers SC1000

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1 No online items Daniel Hartwig & Jenny Johnson Department of Special Collections and University Archives October 2010 Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford URL: SC1000 1

2 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: Van Austin Harvey papers creator: Harvey, Van Austin Identifier/Call Number: SC1000 Physical Description: 8 Linear Feet Date (inclusive): Abstract: Collection includes correspondence with Rudolf Bultmann, , Schubert Ogden, , D. Z. Phillips, 2004, 2006, and Alvin Plantinga, ; a radio script, The Academy Awards, prepared by Harvey and Bob Batchelder for Religion at the News Desk broadcast over WELI in New Haven, CT, March 22, 1952; bound copy of his dissertation Myth, Faith, and History ; and examples of his published work including reprints, journal issues, and books. Collection includes correspondence with Rudolf Bultmann, , Schubert Ogden, , D. Z. Phillips, 2004, 2006, and Alvin Plantinga, ; a radio script, The Academy Awards, prepared by Harvey and Bob Batchelder for Religion at the News Desk broadcast over WELI in New Haven, CT, March 22, 1952; bound copy of his dissertation Myth, Faith, and History ; and examples of his published work including reprints, journal issues, and books. Acquisition Information Gift of Van A. Harvey, 2010; Biographical / Historical Van A. Harvey is George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies (Emeritus) at Stanford University. Born in Hankow, China, he served in the U.S. Navy ( ), and was awarded a BA in Philosophy from Occidental College (1948, Phi Beta Kappa). After attending Princeton Theological Seminary for one year, he received a B.D. from Yale Divinity School in 1951 and a PhD. from Yale University in 1957 in post-enlightenment religious thought. His thesis was entitled "Myth, Faith, and History" and his thesis supervisor was H. Richard Niebuhr. Harvey taught at Princeton University ( ), Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University ( ), the University of Pennsylvania ( ), and Stanford University ( ). He was Chair of the graduate program in religion at SMU and Chair of his departments at both the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford. Harvey's first book, A Handbook of Theological Terms (1964), sought to explain to laypersons the meaning of technical terms found in Christian theology, with special attention to issues dividing Protestant and Catholic theology. His second book, The Historian and the Believer (1966) was concerned with the way in which "morality of knowledge" that informs professional historical inquiry poses problems for the believer and theologian who attempt to justify the historical claims of Christianity on faith, especially when historical inquiry is concerned with Jesus of Nazareth. Harvey argues that these problems have not been satisfactorily dealt with by modern Christian theologians. He pays particular attention to the theologies of Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann. In 1967, Harvey no longer stopped writing from religious standpoint and became a critic of religion. This change is reflected in both his articles and preeminently in his third book Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion (1995), winner of the 1996 American Academy of Religion s award for excellence in constructive-reflective studies. This book argues that the neglected later writings of Ludwig Feuerbach dropped much of the Hegelian elements informing his better-known early work and created a more powerful theory for the origins and persistence of religion. Harvey compares this theory with several well-known contemporary social-scientific and psychological theories and judges Feuerbach's to be superior. Harvey has been awarded an honorary degree in the Humanities from Occidental College, two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships (1966 and 1972), a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship (1979), a Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall, Cambridge University (1979), and distinguished teaching awards from both the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. He has contributed to several encyclopedias and reference works including the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Preferred Citation [identification of item], Van Austin Harvey Papers (SC1000). Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Subjects and Indexing Terms Religion -- Study and teaching. Stanford University -- Faculty. Ogden, Schubert Miles SC1000 2

3 Harvey, Van Austin Ogden, Schubert Miles Phillips, D. Z. (Dewi Zephaniah) Plantinga, Alvin. Bultmann, Rudolf Karl Papers and publications Accession ARCH box 1, folder 1 Bultmann, Rudolf correspondence, photocopies, [partly in German] box 1, folder 2 Ogden, Schubert correspondence [partly in German] box 1, folder 3 Phillips, D. Z. correspondence and Harvey s memorial address box 1, folder 4 Plantinga, Alvin correspondence and chapter text box 1, folder 5 Colloquium on Kaufman s Systematic Theology invitation letter and Harvey s text 1958 box 1, folder 6 Harvey, The Proper Task of Theology: Seven Theses undated box 1, folder 7 Radio script, The Academy Awards, prepared by Harvey and Bob Batchelder for Religion at the News Desk broadcast over WELI in New Haven, CT 1952 March box 1, folder 8 Harvey and Ogden, How New is the New Quest of the Historical Jesus? mimeographed article with German reprint 1962 box 1, folder 9 Harvey, reprints box 1, folder 10 Harvey s CV and biographical sketch by Charley Hardwick box 1, folder 11 Harvey, Myth, Faith, and History carbon copy of dissertation (bound) box 2, folder 1 Stanford publications by Harvey (Sandstone and Tile article 1998; interview in Humanist Forum newsletter 1995) box 2, folder 2 Photocopied articles box 2 Published works in journals and magazines, including: Perkins School of Theology Journal, ; Religion in Life, ; Theology Today ; Free Inquiry ; The Christian Century, ; Religious Education, 1954, 1967 box 2 Harvey, Van A. Theologische Begriffe 1966 box 2 Books with chapters by Harvey: Theology at the End of Modernity (1991); Can Religion Be Explained Away? (1996); Il Problema de Dio Nella Teologia Americana Contemporanea (1970); The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ (1964); The Future of Philosophical Theology (1971) Additional Papers Accession ARCH_2018_126 Publications Contains offprints, articles, and type manuscripts for articles that were later published. Also includes movie reviews from early career at Princeton, crank letters from conservatives, and reviews of The Historian and the Believer. box 1, folder 1 box 1, folder 2 box 1, folder 3 box 1, folder 4 box 1, folder 5 box 1, folder 6 box 1, folder 7 box 1, folder 8 box 1, folder 9 box 1, folder 10 box 1, folder 11 box 1, folder 12 Macmillan Hermeneutics Progeilion a metaphor ui Sesvch On Marginality of Theology Feuerbach, Love, Athetism MBS New Testament Scholarship and Christian belief How New Is the "New Quest of the Historical Jesus?" The Illusive Messiah Nietzsche and the Kantian Paradigm of Faith Jesus and history, the believer and the historian Feurbach and Marx Nietzsche and Suffering Kaufman, Feuerbach on Religion as Construction SC1000 3

4 Additional Papers Accession ARCH_2018_126 Publications box 1, folder 13 A Christology for Barabbases box 1, folder 14 The Alienated Theologian box 1, folder 15 The Belief vs NT, whatever happened Bekuim Belief box 1, folder 16 Is There Anything Religious About Philos True Religion box 1, folder 17 Introduction to the 1996 Edition box 1, folder 18 Some Published Movie Reviews box 1, folder 19 Historian Belief Reviews box 1, folder 20 Harvey Retirement box 1, folder 21 Cram K Letters box 1, folder 22 Lexington Rem. Lectures box 1, folder 23 Alumni Crlege Religion box 1, folder 24 Whatever Happened to Facts = Talk box 1, folder 25 Anti-Semitism, Liberalism, and the Vieninese Tew box 1, folder 26 Buri Dilemma f the Unbelieving Theologian box 1, folder 27 Book Reviews for Publication box 1, folder 28 Columbia Talk Redictionism 1968 box 1, folder 29 Theology + Criticism of Culture box 1, folder 30 Reed Lecture box 1, folder 31 OTIS Lecture box 1, folder 32 Statement On WAD Death box 1, folder 33 Zarathustra box 1, folder 34 Word-World Sacrament box 1, folder 35 Psychiatrist Talk - Projection Huamnities Report box 1, folder 36 The Church in Dallas box 1, folder 37 The Sociology of Knolwedge and the Malaise of Protestant Theology box 1, folder 38 Nietzsche Seminar Handours Spring 1986 box 1, folder 39 Continuing Ed: Vienna 1997 box 1, folder 40 Hillel Talk - Jermiah Slanchies box 1, folder 41 Richard Lecture box 1, folder 42 Haverford Lecture box 1, folder 43 Ontario RS Report box 1, folder 44 Oxford, Boston, Stanford, London, Feurbach Lecture box 1, folder 45 Reinhold Niebahr Lectures box 1, folder 46 Feuerbach on Religion AS Construction box 1, folder 47 Un Snvns Lecture box 1, folder 48 SBL Lecture Unpublished box 1, folder 49 Clarement of Religion box 1, folder 50 SBL Paper Draft/Comments box 1, folder 51 Danforth Lectures 1965 box 1, folder 52 Occidental College Lect. / S. Kierkegaard box 1, folder 53 Lecture on German Universities (Stanford) box 1, folder 54 Guide to Seminar Conduct box 1, folder 55 Types of Theism box 1, folder 56 Harvey Lurther Lecture box 1, folder 57 Theories of Religion: Lecture 1991 box 1, folder 58 Graduate Seminar 1994 box 1, folder 59 Conceptual Relativism Active File box 1, folder 60 Seminar on Behavior, Spring 1966 box 1, folder 61 Humanities box 1, folder 62 Ethics + Belief Seminar III Lectures box 2, folder 1 Theories + Religion box 2, folder 2 Vienna Cannes OT box 2, folder 3 Theory + Religion - Last Lecture box 2, folder 4 Modern Christian Thought box 2, folder 5 Philosophy of Religion, Spr 1979 SC1000 4

5 Additional Papers Accession ARCH_2018_126 Lectures box 2, folder 6 Handouts / Syllabi 5 Classics box 2, folder 7 MLA Seminar Nietzsche 2001 box 2, folder 8 Berlin Lecture Notes "German Mind" 1990 box 2, folder 9 Hermeneutics box 2, folder 10 Hermeneutics RS box 2, folder 11 Religion and Democracy 211 box 2, folder 12 Luther: Civ Lecture box 2, folder 13 Christian Origin Lecture box 2, folder 14 Handouts: Rant -> SK Exams box 2, folder 15 Kierkegaard 2002 box 2, folder 16 Junq box 2, folder 17 4 Lectures on Kierkegaard box 2, folder 18 Feuerbach Lectures box 2, folder 19 Kierkegaard Lecture Notes box 2, folder 20 Feuerbach/Nietzsche remarks box 2, folder 21 Religious Classics RS 287 box 2, folder 22 Bultman Course 1993 box 2, folder 23 MLA Materials box 2, folder 24 Wesatern Culture Aquinas box 2, folder 25 Kant: W.C Lecture box 2, folder 26 Hum box 2, folder 27 0 box 2, folder 28 Wittgenstein Course Notes box 2, folder 29 Humanities 160 Vienna box 2, folder 30 Vienna box 2, folder 31 Weber Seminar box 2, folder 32 Hermeutics and Follesdoe box 2, folder 33 Theodicy Seminar Spring 1972 box 2, folder 34 Psycho Theories of Religion box 2, folder 35 Single Lecture: Marx box 2, folder 36 General Honors Course box 2, folder 37 Heidegger Handouts box 2, folder 38 Heidegger Seminar box 2, folder 39 Heidegger 1995 box 2, folder 40 Heidegger Course Prep 1992 box 2, folder 41 Heidegger Seminar 1995 box 2, folder 42 19th Cent Syllabii of Reading Notes Course notes box 3, folder 1 Religious Existentialism Lectures 1982, 1994 box 3, folder 2 Operating File Rs box 3, folder 3 Civ Completed Lectures 1995 box 3, folder 4 Wien 1900 Hum 90 box 3, folder 5 19th Century Lectures Vol. I box 3, folder 6 Western Culture Lectures Spring Quarter Stanford 1988 Notebooks Typed lectures given at Stanford. box 4, folder 1 Nietzsche Lectures box 4, folder 2 Western Cultures Lecture box 4, folder 3 19th Century lectures Vol. II SC1000 5