Donald F. Durnbaugh Papers | Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives and Special Collections

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Collection Overview

Title: Donald F. Durnbaugh Papers

ID: MSS/MSS-0010

Primary Creator: Durnbaugh, Donald F.

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Collection Historical Note

Donald F. Durnbaugh was born in Detroit on November 16, 1927, and passed away in August 27, 2005. He lived in the Raystown Lake area with his family. He and his wide, Hedwig, had three children together. He earned his bachelor's degree in history from Manchester College and earned a masters in history from the University of Michigan. In 1960, he earned his doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1958 to 1963, he taught as an assistant professor at Juniata College, until he left to be associate professor of church history at Bethany Theological Seminary in 1962 until 1988. It was in 1969 that he began his tenure at Elizabethtown College as the first Carl W. Ziegler Professor of Religion and History. He began delivering public lectures in 1987, which would eventually become the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. He continued to present papers and lectures at academic conferences. He wrote hundreds of scholarly articles, and published or edited sixteen books, including Fruit of the Vine: A History of the Brethren. He was on the Brethren Enclyclopedia board and was also an active member of the American Society of Church History, the Brethren Journal Association, the Communcal Studies Association, the Pennsylvania German Society, and many more. Among many other awards, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2003 by Juniata College. From 1993 until soon before his death, Durnbaugh served as Juniata's archivist.

Box and Folder Listing

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[Series 1: Research Topic Files],
[Series 2: Publications and Lectures],
[Series 3: Durnbaugh Correspondence],
[Series 4: Bethany Seminary],
[Series 5: Travel/Europe],
[Series 6: Miscellaneous],
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Series 4: Bethany Seminary

<b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This series contails materials Donald Durnbaugh taught and collected during his time at Bethany Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. There is correspondence, drafts of lectures and manuscripts, newspaper clippings and articles, and multiple resources for some of the subject matter he learned about and taught.</span></b>

Box 47: Bethany Courses

Box 48: Bethany Courses and Various Research Topics

Box 49: Bibliographies

Box 47

Folder 1: Elizabethtown College

Item 1: Correspondence (especially regarding DFD faculty appointment), 1987-1999
Item 2: Durnbaugh, "The Brethren Heritage of Elizabethtown College" draft copy, 1992
Item 3: Press Releases
Item 4: Sharon Ulrich, "What Can One Person Really Do For Peace?" article, 1986
Item 5: Newspaper clipping, 1987
Item 6: Durnbaugh, "New Understandings of Anabaptism and Pietism" article, 1988
Item 7: Durnbaugh, "M.R. Zigler: Pragmatic Prophet" article manuscript, 1987
Item 8: Pamphlet on Elizabethtown College's Center for Continuing Education

Folder 2: Believer's Church (1)

Item 1: DFD's The Believer's Church course syllabi, 1963-1985
Item 2: DFD's The Radical Reformation course syllabus, 1966
Item 3: Various syllabi from courses that use The Believers' Church

Folder 3: Believer's Church (2)

Item 1: DFD notes and class handouts
Item 2: Harold E. Fey, "The Church: Free, Responsible, Ecumenical" address manuscript, 1966
Item 3: Excerpts from articles (1951, 1961, 1977, 1986, 1991)
Item 4: Diagrams
Item 5: Book Reviews
Item 6: Flavil R. Yeakley, Jr., "Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion as Reasons for Reversing the Decision in "Guinn vs. The Collinsville Church of Christ" paper manuscript, 1985
Item 7: Durnbaugh, "What the Believers' Church Believes" article manuscript

Folder 4: The Confessing Church

Item 1: Newspaper clippings/article regarding American Holocaust museum
Item 2: Articles (1957-1959)
Item 3: Book Review
Item 4: Franklin H. Littell, "The Reconstruction of the Post-Holocaust University: A Challenge to Interfaith Cooperation" address manuscript, 1986
Item 5: Franklin H. Littell, "The Holocaust and the Corruption of Science" address manuscript, 1977
Item 6: Franklin H. Littell, "The Threat of Extremism to Democracy" address manuscript, 1967
Item 7: Franklin H. Littell, "Chrisitians and the Enemies of America" paper manuscript, 1962
Item 8: Franklin H. Littell, "Do Totalitarian Movements Present a 'Crisis at Law'?" paper manuscript, 1967
Item 9: Franklin H. Littell, "In Defense of Religious Liberty" address manuscript, 1977
Item 10: Franklin H. Littell, "A Report of Historical 'Revisionism'" address manuscript, 1981
Item 11: Publications/Audio Visual Bulletins (materials on the Holocaust), 1977
Item 12: Film Review
Item 13: Bethany Seminary Worship Service for Yom Hasho'ah, 1978
Item 14: Records of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Item 15: DFD Notes
Item 16: DFD's Seminar in Modern Church History: The Confessing Church course syllabi and bibliography, 1976, 1987
Item 17: List of Suggested Research Papers
Item 18: DFD notes, chronologies, and class handouts
Item 19: Course Evaluation
Item 20: Articles (1969, 1973, 1981, 1984, 1986)
Item 21: Maps

Folder 5: Dibelius

Item 1: Magazine Clippings, 1953, 1960

Folder 6: Evangelical Academies

Item 1: Postcards
Item 2: Newspaper
Item 3: Articles (1964)
Item 4: Frederick K. Wentz, "Lay Schools: Symptom or Cure" article manuscript, 1966
Item 5: Robert H. Hess, "The Birth and Development of Evangelical Academies in Germany" student paper manuscripts, 1967

Folder 7: Church Rallies

Item 1: Articles (1959, 1969, 1973)
Item 2: In der Freiheit Bestehen
Item 3: Hungern nach Gerechtigkeit booklets, 1969
Item 4: Newspaper clippings, 1965, 1969, 1991
Item 5: Statement of meaning and purpose of the Chicago and Dialogue
Item 6: "An Invitation to a Town Meeting for thr Twin Cities Metropolitan Area" proposal to civic organizations, 1966
Item 7: Gerhard Schnath, "The Kirchentag Today and Tomorrow" address manuscript
Item 8: Pamphlets
Item 9: Information letter for ecumenical Kirchentag participants, 1969
Item 10: Stuttgart newsletters, 1969

Folder 8: Niemoeller

Item 1: Newspaper clippings, 1964, 1969, 1984

Folder 9: The Confessing Church-- Holocaust

Item 1: Magazine clippings, 1969-1970, 1975, 1977-1978
Item 2: Book Reviews
Item 3: Newspaper clippings, 1966
Item 4: Film Reviews
Item 5: Articles (1965, 1977, 1984)
Item 6: Franklin H. Littell, "Totalitarianism" article manuscript, 1960
Item 7: Durnbaugh, Church Peace Mission-- Documents on the Contemporary German Church Struggle manuscript
Item 8: Franklin H. Littell, "From Barmen (1934) to Stuttgart (1945): The Path of the Confessing Church in Germany" paper manuscript, 1961
Item 9: Franklin H. Littell, "The German Church Struggle and the Plight of the Jews" paper manuscript, 1977
Item 10: Ronald C. Arnett, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Contexual Peacemaking Ethic" paper manuscript, 1983

Folder 10: Base Comunities (Liberation Theology)

Item 1: Newspaper clipping, 1979
Item 2: Articles (1981)
Item 3: Book Reviews
Item 4: Latin American Pastoral Issues journal, 1987

Folder 11: Bonhoeffer

Item 1: Burton Nelson's The Theology and Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer course syllabi, 1975, 1977
Item 2: Book/film reviews
Item 3: Bonhoeffer bibliography (periodical articles)
Item 4: DFD, Theology of Bonhoeffer course syllabus, 1976
Item 5: Dale W. Brown, "Bonhoeffer and Pacifism" paper manuscript,m 1976
Item 6: Eberhard Bethge, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life and Thought" lecture manuscripts
Item 7: Magazine Clippings, 1960, 1967
Item 8: Articles (1961, 1972, 1975)
Item 9: DFD Notes
Item 10: Eberhard Bethge, "The Christology of Dietrich Bonehoeffer" manuscript
Item 11: Dale W. Brown's Theology of Bonhoeffer course syllabus, 1987

Folder 12: Roman Catholics and the Nazis

Item 1: Der Spiegel isssues, 1964-1965
Item 2: Magazine Clippings, 1963-1964, 1969, 1973
Item 3: Book reviews
Item 4: Newspaper clipping, 1964
Item 5: Play Review

Folder 13: German Church

Item 1: Postcards
Item 2: Magazine Clippings, 1966, 1970-1971, 1980
Item 3: Pamphlets
Item 4: Articles (1966-1967, 1975)
Item 5: Newspaper clippings, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972
Item 6: "Evangelische Landeskirche in Wüttemberg" booklet
Item 7: "Die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland" booklet
Item 8: Otto Dibelius, "Christus und die Christen" article booklet, 1965
Item 9: Flugbötter issues, 1977

Folder 14: Education for Shared Ministry (EFSM)

Item 1: Photograph
Item 2: DFD Correspondence, 1981-1988
Item 3: "Report on the EFSM workshop at Valley Bethel Congregation, May 13-15, 1988"
Item 4: Notes, instructions and bibliography for Simulation in Brethren History: the Macedonian Call Suggestions for Leaders of Bethany Weekend Workshops
Item 5: Suggestions for leaders of Bethany Weekend Workshops
Item 6: Evaluations of the weekend worship at Valley Bethel Congregation
Item 7: "Ten Principles for Church Growth" list

Folder 15: Extension School

Item 1: DFD correspondence, 1982-1988
Item 2: DFD"s Evangelicalism: Historical Background and Present Reality extension school course syllabus, 1988
Item 3: Bridgewater College Brochures
Item 4: Extension school pamphlets
Item 5: DFD's Our Brethren Heritage exetension school course syllabus, 1983
Item 6: Brethren History Quiz

Folder 16: European Christianity

Item 1: Article
Item 2: DFD's Seminar in Modern Church History: Churches under Totalitarianism course syllabi, 1969, 1979

Folder 17: Church Renewal in Europe

Item 1: DFD's Church Renewal Movements in Europe summer extension school course syllabus, 1973
Item 2: Fact Sheet-- Church of the Savior
Item 3: DFD Church Renewal in Europe course syllabus and bibliography, 1971
Item 4: Fact Sheet-- Taiźe Community
Item 5: Fact Sheet-- Reba Place Fellowship
Item 6: Fact Sheet-- Church Rallies
Item 7: Fact Sheet-- Ecumenical (Evangelical) Sisterhood of Mary
Item 8: Fact Sheet-- Ecumenical Institute
Item 9: Fact Sheet-- Evangelical Academies
Item 10: DFD Notes

Folder 18: Ecumenical Movement

Item 1: DFD's The Ecumenical Movement course syllabi and bibliographies, 1964-1966, 1968, 1979
Item 2: DFD notes and class handouts
Item 3: "A Selective Bibliography of Books Available in the Bethany Library on the Ecumenical Movement," 1964
Item 4: "The Inter-Seminarian" newsletter, 1965

Folder 19: Congregational Structure

Item 1: DFD's Congregational Structure: Friend or Enemy of Community Doctor of Ministry seminar syllabus, 1977
Item 2: Article (1977)

Folder 20: Excerpt from W. Van Kirk, Religion Renounces War

Folder 21: Publisher Advertisements/Catalogues

Item 1: Chart of Protestant denominations in the United States (1975)
Item 2: Moody Press Advertisements
Item 3: Eerdmans advertisements

Folder 22: History of Russia

Item 1: DFD's History of Russia course syllabi, 1958, 1961
Item 2: DFD's History of Russia course exams, 1958-1962
Item 3: Reading Lists
Item 4: DFD Notes
Item 5: "Nature of Society" Map Exercise
Item 6: Juniata College style sheet for essaysin history
Item 7: DFD Nature of Society exams, 1959
Item 8: Student opinionnaire, 1958-1959
Item 9: Maps

Folder 23: HIstory of the Far East

Item 1: DFD's History of the Far East course syllabi, bibliographies, and exams, 1959-1960, 1962
Item 2: Asian Studies in Liberal Education booklet, 1959

Folder 24: Modern Europe to 1815

Item 1: DFD's Modern Europe to 1815 course syllabi and final exam, 1960-1962
Item 2: Reading List
Item 3: DFD Notes
Item 4: "Nature of Society" Map Exercise
Item 5: Juniata College style sheet for essays in history
Item 6: DFD Nature of Society exams, 1959
Item 7: Student opinionnaire, 1958-1959

Folder 25: The Age of Revolutions

Item 1: DFD's The Age of Revolutions course syllabi, 1959-1961
Item 2: DFD Notes

Folder 26: The Reformation

Item 1: DFD's Renaissance and Reformation course syllabus, 1964
Item 2: DFD Notes and lecture notes
Item 3: Bibliography
Item 4: DFD"s The Reformation course syllabus, 1962
Item 5: DFD's The Reformation course final exams, 1959, 1961-1962

Folder 27: Modern Europe since 1815

Item 1: DFD's Modern Europe since 1815 course syllabi and exam, 1960-1963
Item 2: DFD Notes

Folder 28: Philosophy and Historiography

Item 1: Relevant Articles (1944, 1946, 1951, 1970)
Item 2: DFD, "Suggestions for teaching 'The Church Through Centuries'"

Folder 29: Medieval Europe

Item 1: DFD's History of Medieval Europe course syllabus and exam, 1963

Folder 30: Stone Church of the Brethren

Item 1: DFD Correspondence, 1961-1963
Item 2: Constitutional and Organizational Plan of the Stone Church
Item 3: Report from the Committee on Church Organization
Item 4: Stone Church treasurer's report

Box 48

Folder 1: Civil Religion

Item 1: DFD's Civil Religion course syllabi, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1989
Item 2: Rosemanry Keller and Robert Jewett, The Bible and Civil Religion course syllabus, 1983 *Garrett-Evalengical Theological Seminary)
Item 3: DFD correspondence, 1976, 1982
Item 4: Bibliographies
Item 5: James E. Will, Christian Responsibility for Peace: The Role of American Civil Religion course syllabus, 1976

Folder 2: Civil Religion

Item 1: DFD's Civil Religion course syllabus, 1985
Item 2: DFD Notes
Item 3: DFD lecture notes
Item 4: Civil Religion Hymn Quiz
Item 5: Franklin H. Littell, "Foundations and Traditions of Religious Liberty" article, 1977

Folder 3: Civil Religion (at American Mennonite Biblical Seminary)

Item 1: DFD's Civil Religion course syllabus, 1976
Item 2: DFD correspondence, 1975-1976
Item 3: Course evalutation

Folder 4: Modern Cults

Item 1: DFD's Modern Cults course syllabi, 1979, 1981
Item 2: Participant evaluation form, 1979
Item 3: DFD correspondence, 1978-1979
Item 4: Final exam, 1967

Folder 5: Evangelicalism

Item 1: DFD's Evangelicalism: Historical Background and Present Reality course syllabus, 1985, 1988
Item 2: Donald W. Dayton, Protestant Evangelicalism course syllabus, 1982
Item 3: Excerpt from FIdes et Historia, 1988
Item 4: Elizabethtown College new course proposal form, 1989
Item 5: Bibliography
Item 6: DFD notes and lecture notes
Item 7: Class handouts
Item 8: DFD's Evangelicalism: Historical Background and Present Reality course syllabus, 1990
Item 9: Bibliography
Item 10: DFD Notes and lecture notes
Item 11: "The Roots and Branches of Pietism" class handout

Folder 6: DFD Lecutre Manuscripts

Item 1: "Civil Religion: Blight or Blessing"
Item 2: "Civil Religion in Anabaptist Perspective"
Item 3: "Civil Religion, the Peace Churches, and the American Revolution"
Item 4: "Civil Religion in the Nineteenth Century"
Item 5: "Civil Religion: A Concluding Statement"
Item 6: "DFD Correspondence, 1973-1974"

Folder 7: Modern Cults

Item 1: DFD's Modern Religious Movements course syllabi, 1973-1974, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985
Item 2: DFD's Modern Cults syllabus and final exam, 1967
Item 3: DFD's notes on various religious movements
Item 4: Bibliographies
Item 5: Newspaper clipping of Chicago area religous services

Folder 8: Donald E. Miller

Item 1: Curriculum vitae for Donald E. Miller
Item 2: Donald E. Miller, "Autobiographical Notes," 2001
Item 3: Articles (1981, 1987, 2001)
Item 4: List of publications
Item 5: List of questions for Miller former students and colleagues
Item 6: Lyrics to "Go Down, Miller"
Item 7: Bibliography
Item 8: Excerpts from various Miller publications

Folder 9: Heifer Project

Item 1: Articles (1946, 1972, 1978, 1981, 1983-32, 1986, 1994-1995, 2004)
Item 2: DFD correspondence, 2002-2004
Item 3: Copies of Dan West's obituaries and bulletins of memorial services
Item 4: Transcript of West's memorial service, 1971
Item 5: Transcript of a taped interview with Dr. Raymond Miller, a long-time friend of M.R. Zigler, 1984
Item 6: M.R. Zigler correspondence, 1949, 1953, 1972-1974, 1977
Item 7: "Report of the Heifer Project in Western Germany," 1949
Item 8: Heifer International Brochures, pamphlets, advertisements
Item 9: Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1983

Folder 10: Heifer Project

Item 1: Brochures and Catalogues
Item 2: World Ark issues, 2003-2005
Item 3: Project Profiles, 1994-1995, 1999, 2003

Folder 11: Fraktur

Item 1: Newspaper clippings, 1968, 1995, 2000-2001
Item 2: Fraktur bookmarks and greeting cards
Item 3: Book advertisements
Item 4: Woodmere Art Museum membership application
Item 5: "The Dietrich Fraktur Collections" pamphlets
Item 6: Book Review
Item 7: Articles (1960, 1973, 1987, 1994-1995)
Item 8: American Fraktur: Graphic Folk Art 1745-1855 booklet
Item 9: Francis Lichten, Fraktur: The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Dutch booklet, 1958
Item 10: Paul Conner and Jill Roberts (compliers), Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides, 1988
Item 11: Kaufman, Stanley A., Germaic Folk Culture in Eastern Ohio, 1986
Item 12: Pennsylvania German Arts and Crafts: A Picture Book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943
Item 13: Klaus Wust, Virginia Fraktur: Pennmanship as Folk Art, 1972
Item 14: Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Color Drawings from Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, 1969

Folder 12: Muhlenberg Family

Item 1: Newspaper clipping, 1980
Item 2: Felix Reichman, Muhlenberg Family bibliography, 1943
Item 3: Booklet from New Hanover Lutheran Congregation 250th anniversary, 1950
Item 4: H.M.N Richards, Descendants of Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, 1900

Folder 13: Pennsylvania Germans (Genealogy, Hex, Immigration, Language, Tourism)

Item 1: "German-American Heritage Society of Greater Washington, DC" newsletter, 2002-2003
Item 2: Landmark Mall: 250 Years of Alexandria, Virginia, History: The German-American Component booklet
Item 3: Articles (1942-1943, 1966, 1979, 1991)
Item 4: German American Genealogy booklet from the Immigrant Genealogical Society, 1996
Item 5: "Indiana German Heritage Society" newsletter, 1989
Item 6: "Der Kurier" newsletter, 1989
Item 7: Alfred L. Shoemaker, Hex,No! booklet
Item 8: Magazine Clippings, 1957, 1968, 1975, 2003
Item 9: Pfälzer Heimatgruss booklets, 1975-1984
Item 10: Joseph Hall, ed., The Palatine Immigrant booklet, 1976
Item 11: A. Monrow Aurand Jr., Quaint Idioms and Expressions booklet (fourth edition), 1939
Item 12: Forschungsstandbericht: Deutsch als Muttersprache im Nichtdeutschsprachigen Ausland, 1988
Item 13: Newspaper clippings, 1976, 1992
Item 14: Penn-Dutch Traveler newspaper, 1973
Item 15: Brochures
Item 16: Clippings from German Language newspapers, 1819, 1903

Folder 14: Pennsylvania Germans (German, Architecture, Art, Powwowing, Churches/Religion, Folklore)

Item 1: Newspaper clipping, 1952
Item 2: List of resources for Pennsylvania German studies
Item 3: German-American heritage map, 1990
Item 4: Oswald Seidensticker, "German-American Events, Principally of Pennsylvania, up to 1870"
Item 5: Articles (1942, 1959-1960, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1996)
Item 6: Excerpts from the Yearbook of the Pennsylvania Society, 1905
Item 7: Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1968, 1991-1992, 1998, 2003-2004
Item 8: Book Reviews
Item 9: The American-German Review issue, 1941
Item 10: Various Pamphlets
Item 11: The Mercer Mile: The Story of Dr. Henry Champman Mercer and his Concrete Buildings booklet, 1996
Item 12: Bibliographies

Folder 15: Tricentennial Conference of German-American History, Politics and Culture, 1983

Item 1: Pamphlets
Item 2: "Description and Scope" of the conference
Item 3: Schedule of Conference
Item 4: "German-American Tricentennial 1683-1993 Newsletter," nos. 1-5

Box 49

Folder 1: Multiple Copies of Brethren Life and Thought, Vol IX, Nos. 1-2, Winter and Spring 1964: **contains DFD, "Brethren Bibliography, 1713-1963"
Folder 2: Brethren Life and Thought, Vol. XV, No. 4, Autumn 1: Contains DFD, "A Second Supplement to Brethren Bibliography"
Folder 3: Kenneth M. Shaffer, Jr., "A Third Supplement to the Brethren Bibliography, 1970-1983"
Folder 4: Roger E. Sappington, "A Bibliography of Theses on the Church of the Brethren: Supplement to the 1958 Bibliography" in Brethren Life and Thought, Vol XV, No. 4, Autumn, 1970
Folder 5: Schwarzenau, Vol. III, No. 2, January 1942
Folder 6: DFD, "Supplement and Index to the Brethren Bibliography," 1966