STH: Special Collections

A link to BU Libraries Search, searching the cataloged items in the General Worship/Sanders Collection. This collection contains the worship collection of Rev. James Sanders, an ecumenical collection containing worship books and companion works, histories and studies of liturgy. Received in 1974, it is cataloged on-line but not separately identified. The Sanders Collection has been supplemented by our own collection of Common Lectionary and other contemporary materials.

A link to BU Libraries Search, searching the cataloged items in the Heidt Collection. This contains nearly 3000 volumes from the private library of Rev. William Heidt, O.S.B. Rev. Heidt was the editor in chief of Liturgical Press in Collegeville, Minnesota for nearly twenty five years, both prior to and after the liturgical reform that Vatican II initiated. A Benedictine monk at St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Fr. Heidt’s collection reflects the remarkable liturgical renewal movement of the second half of the 20th century. The collection is rich in historical, sacramental, and liturgical texts. Originally trained in Old Testament Studies at the Catholic University of America in the 1930’s, Fr. Heidt’s collection also contains many works in biblical theology and spiritual theology. In addition to monographs, there is a wide-ranging collection of pamphlets. The collection came to Boston University School of Theology from Holy Apostles Seminary in Comwell, Connecticut, where Fr. Heidt spent the last 10 years of his teaching career.

A link to BU Libraries Search, searching the cataloged items in the Early Homiletics Collection. This collection contains a small group of early homilies. It is supplemented by 475 electronic texts scanned from documents held at other theological schools as part of the ATLA/ATS Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI), funded by the Luce Foundation. Most of the titles are pre-1900.

Partially Cataloged. A link to cataloged items in our C. Allyn Russell Fundamentalism Collection, in BU Libraries Search. C. Allyn Russell was Professor in the Religion Department of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University for twenty-eight years before his retirement in 1987. He taught American religious history and was a specialist in American Fundamentalism. This collection of over 150 books from his private library focuses on Fundmentalism in the second half of the twentieth century. The collection’s primary focus is on source materials relating to Criswell, Graham, Roberts, Falwell, Robertson and others, some of which are annotated. The collection is additionally supplemented by studies of other scholars and several dissertations.

A link to BU Libraries Search, searching the cataloged items in the Dorothy S. Packer Collection.This small collection contains books on the Reformation.

A link to BU Libraries Search, searching the cataloged items in the Dorothy S. Packer Collection. This collection contains nineteenth-century Sunday School Tracts.