Guide to the Van Austin Harvey Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1000
Title: Van Austin Harvey papers
Dates: 1952-2007
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes correspondence with Rudolf Bultmann, 1960-73, Schubert Ogden, 1960-61, D. Z. Phillips, 2004, 2006, and
Alvin Plantinga, 1997-98; 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
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Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
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Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Van A. Harvey, 2010.
Cite As
[identification of item], Van Austin Harvey Papers (SC1000). Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University since 1978, Harvey trained at Yale Divinity School and taught at the
University of Pennsylvania before coming to Stanford.
Scope and Contents note
Collection includes correspondence with Rudolf Bultmann, 1960-73, Schubert Ogden, 1960-61, D. Z. Phillips, 2004, 2006, and
Alvin Plantinga, 1997-98; 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.
Access Terms
Bultmann, Rudolf Karl , 1884-1765.
Ogden, Schubert Miles, 1928-
Phillips, D. Z., (Dewi Zephaniah)
Plantinga, Alvin.
Religions --Study and teaching.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Collection Contents
Accession ARCH-2010-109
Papers and publications
1952-2007
Language of Material:
English
Box 1, Folder 1
Bultmann, Rudolf--correspondence, photocopies, [partly in German]
1960-1973
Box 1, Folder 2
Ogden, Schubert--correspondence [partly in German]
1960-1961
Box 1, Folder 3
Phillips, D. Z.--correspondence and Harvey's memorial address
2004-2006
Box 1, Folder 4
Plantinga, Alvin--correspondence and chapter text
1997-1998
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
1959-2007
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
Published works in journals and magazines, including: Perkins School of Theology Journal, 1958-88; Religion in Life, 1952-64;
Theology Today 1958-64; Free Inquiry 1985-2007; The Christian Century, 1965-2000; 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)
