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Organizational records, correspondence, memorabilia relating to the Albert Schweitzer Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Papers of the theologian, philosopher, physician, organist, and music scholar; born in Alsace, France. Founded a missionary hospital in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his advocacy of the brotherhood of nations. Collection includes correspondence (1901-1965); 123 notebooks (1918-1965); manuscript essays and lectures on religion, philosophy, and medicine; and sermons. Correspondence includes nearly 1400 letters between Schweitzer and wife Hélène Bresslau (1901-1939); 396 letters (1950-1965) written in German to Erica Anderson; 180 letters to daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller; and 70 letters to various recipients, including 3 to Rudolf Bultmann. Notebooks document Schweitzer's daily life in Lambaréné, the diseases and stories of his patients, and the arrival of visitors to the mission. They also contain poems, quotations, excerpts from books on philosophy, religion, and history; clippings from French, German, English, and African newspapers; reports on world politics; and commentaries on himself and his work.

Typescript and handwritten manuscript by the Jewish scholar and theologian.

German theologian. Collection consists primarily of published writings, also a small amount of of manuscripts and memorabilia.

German theologian. Collection contains typed and annotated manuscript of a book by Theilicke; chapter titles suggest it might be the manuscript for How the World Began: Sermons on the Creation Story (1964).

Papers of the German theologian. Manuscript, "Dogmatik," in a single volume.

Correspondence, memorabilia, printed material, etc. pertaining to James Luther Adams, acquired by &scrc_name; separately from the James Luther Adams Papers, through purchase or gift.

Material from their lecture series, JLA Forum on Religion and Society (brochures, texts of lectures, etc.) as well as audiorecordings and videorecordings of or by Adams.

Papers of the American theologian, Unitarian Universalist, Professor of Religion. Predominately correspondence, the remainder of the collection consists of financial records, photographs, printed material, and writings including examinations, notes, and a typescript of the translation of Ernst Troeltsch's Historism and Its Problems, First Book: The Logical Problem of the Philosophy of History (Tübingen, Germany, 1925).

Conference material, correspondence, and writings of the American Methodist theologian