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Herberg Collection: A Guide to the Papers and Annotated Texts

Compiled by Janice Frederick, James Gilman, Charles J. Lopez Jr., and Harvey Nelson under the editorship of Donald M. Vorp

Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
June 16, 1978

With addition of September 1983. p.10

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PREFACE
PAPERS
ANNOTATED TEXTS, A-L and M-Z

PREFACE

The papers and books of Will Herberg (1902-1977), Andrew W. Stout Professor of Philosophy and Culture at Drew University, were presented to the University Library in 1976. These materials were organized in 1976-78 and that organization forms the basis for this guide. It provides an outline arrangement of Herberg's personal papers and an alphabetical author-title listing of annotated books and pamphlets from his private library. While a full calendar description of the papers awaits additional work, such a guide may usefully assist scholars in the location of material.

The Herberg Collection, covering the period from 1929 to 1977, varies greatly in form and content. It includes articles, lectures, letters, notes, clippings, annotated texts and ranges widely over areas of social, political, historical, philosophical, and theological concern. Aspects of Herberg's association with Marxism, his involvement with labor, his re-discovery of Judaism, and his role as a discerning interpreter of religion and culture are all represented within the collection. Something of the highly complex vision which characterizes the Herberg biography is likewise disclosed, along with a continuing sense of the extraordinary intensity of his teaching presence and his impressive hold on synthetic analysis.

In organizing the collection, the University Library has sought, wherever possible, to preserve the working order in which Herberg had many of his papers. Particular categories within the broad subject headings of "Lecture", "Notes", and "Public Lectures" are in-variably his own. This means, for example, that a public lecture titled "Judaism, Economics, and Social Action" will not be found under the heading, "Public Lecture (by Title)". It can, however, be located in the organizational context in which Herberg had placed it: in a folder of public lecture materials which he had marked "Religicn and the Issues of Contemporary Life and Culture" and which is found here under the heading, "Public Lecture (by Subject)". This is perhaps enough to suggest that some attention to Herberg's categories will itself assist the user in locating specific material.

Those interested in the Herberg documents may wish to be aware of other possible points of entry. Additional Herberg letters may well survive in the extensive network of contacts he had with contemporaries such as Jay Lovestone, Sidney Hook, Gerson Cohen, Lewis Feuer, and others. Relationships between Herberg and others within Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union may also merit some attention. Extensive work on Herberg presumably cannot be done without reference, as well, to the specialized re-sources of the Tamiment Library at New York University, the archives of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the New York Public Library, and the library of Jewish Theological Seminary. All of these centers are especially important for placing him in relation to Marxism, labor and Judaism.

Particular attention should be called to the work done thus far on the Herberg bibliography. This work at Drew extends over several years and includes, in addition to my own contribution, the efforts especially of Professor Donald G. Jones, Lawrence D. McIntosh, and Francine Quaglio. Rabbi Hershel Matt, long-time friend of Will Herberg, has also provided important bibliographical data, in addition to making his own collection of Herberg materials available through photocopy. Through the courtesy of Professor Jones, the excellent bibliographical work of Douglas Webb is likewise now accessible.

This guide is very much a cooperative project and it is a pleasure to acknowledge and thank my colleagues, Janice Frederick, James Gilman, Charles J. Lopez Jr., and Harvey Nelson for their consistently careful work.

Donald N. Vorp

Drew University June 16, 1978

HERBERG COLLECTION PAPERS

I. Articles
	A.	Annotated
		1	1935-1945
		2	1946-1952
		3	1953-1966
		4	1967-1971
		5	1972-1975
	B.	Published
		6	-1946
		7	1947-1951
		8	1952-1954
		9	1955-1957
		10	1958-1960
		11	1961-1964
		12	1965-1970
		13	1971-1973
	C.	Unpublished
		14.1	Articles. Unpublished
		14.2	Articles. Unpublished
II. Bibliographies
		15	Bibliographies by Herberg
		16	Bibliographies of Herberg's Writings
III. Biography
		17	Biography
IV. Book Reviews
	A.	By Herberg
	B.	About Herberg
		18	1930-1954
		19	1955-1975
		20.1	About Herberg
		20.2	About Herberg
V. Class Records
		21	Class Records
VI. Correspondence
		22	1929-1944
		23	1945-1959
		24	1960-1970
		25	1971-1973
		26	1974-1977
		27	1947-1974, To Hershel and Gustine Matt
		28	1948-1952, Publication Interests
VII. Course Outlines
		29	-1968
		30	1969-1975
VIII. Financial Records
		31	1935-1949
		32	1950-1969
IX. Journal
		33	Journal
X. Lecture, Seminar, Tutorial Materials
		34.1	American Labor and Unions
		34.2	American Labor and Unions
		35.1	American Socialist Political Theory
		35.2	American Socialist Political Theory
		36	Authority and Power
		37.1	Basic Theories of Medieval Thought: Basic Themes
		37.2	Basic Theories of Medieval Thought: Basic Themes
		38	Being and Doing (Summer Session, University of Southern California, 1969)
		39	Central Problems of Socialism, 1939; Critical Problems of Marxism, 1940.
		40	Christianity, Buddhism and Existentialism
		41	Christianity, Totalitarianism and Democracy
		42	Church and State in Education
		42A.1	Church and State
		42A.2	Church and State
		42A.3	Church and State
		43	The Church and the World (General Theological Seminary)
		44	Concept of Progress
		45	Conservatism and Freedom in the American Tradition (Mid-western I5I Institute, 1971)
		46	Contemporary Philosophy and Depth Psychology
		47	Depth Psychology and Religion
		48	Dimensions of Political Philosophy (Ethics and Politics)
		49	Eschatology and History
		50	The Fabric of a Free Society (Eastern ISI Institute, 1971)
		51	Faith, History and Self-understanding: Meaning and Redemption in History.
		52	Fascism and America
		53	Fascism and Communism
		54	German Idealism
		55	Hermeneutics
		56	Images of Man in Contemporary Western Thought (Saint Peter's College)
		57	The Inner Crisis of Religion in Three-Faith America
		58	Introduction to Islamic Studies
		59	Introduction to Metaphysics
		60	Introduction to Moral Philosophy
		61	Liberalism and Conservatism (Eastern ISI Institute, 1970)
		62	The Limits of Politics
		63	Main Phases in the History of Western Philosophy
		64	Major Aspects of the Thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein
		65	Modern Man in a Metaphysical Wasteland
		66	The Negro and Education
		67	The New Left
		68	New Problems of Soviet Dictatorship, 1937; Soviet Dictatorship: Some Problems and Conclusions, 1938
		69	Ontology and Ethics
		70	Other Voices in Christian Ethics
		71	Phenomenology
		72	Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Depth Psychology
		73	Philosophical Analysis and Theological Understanding
		74	Philosophies of History: Augustine to Toynbee
		75	Philosophy and Theology: Eight Types of Encounter
		76	Philosophy and Theology: Six Types of Encounter
		77	Philosophy in Crisis
		78	The Problem of History
		79	Problems of Jewish Self-Affirmation
		80	Religion and Behavioral Sciences
		81	Religion and Politics
		82.1	Religion in America
		82.2	Religion in America
		82.3	Religion in America
		82.4	Religion in America
		83	Scholasticism, Mysticism, and Existentialism in Jewish Religious Thought
		84	Science, Art, and Religion: A Philosophic Critique (New School)
		85	Six Types of Christian Ethics
		86	Social Philosophies (Saint Peter's College)
		87	The Social Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville
		88	Studies in Chinese Philosophy: Confucianism
		89	Studies in Enlightenment Thought
		90	Studies in Indian Philosophy
		91	Studies in Mysticism
		92	Studies in the Language of the Christian Faith
		93	The Thought of Arthur Schopenhauer
		94	The Thought of Ernst Cassirer
		95	The Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche
		96.1	The Thought of Karl Marx
		96.2	The Thought of Karl Marx
		97.1	The Thought of Sigmund Freud
		97.2	The Thought of Sigmund Freud
		98	Three Types of Thought and Language
		99	Twentieth—Century Philosophies (New School)
		100	Two Ways of Faith: Biblical Religion and Buddhism
		101	Types of Dialogical Theology
XI. Notes
		102	American Christianity
		103.1	American Christianity
		103.2	America's Negro Problem
		104	Augustine
		105	Barth, Karl
		106	Berdyaev, Nicolas
		107	Brunner, Emil
		108	Buber, Martin
		109	Bultmann, Rudolf
		110.1	Burke, Edmund
		110.2	Burke, Edmund
		111	Catholicism
		112.1	Chinese Studies
		112.2	Chinese Studies
		113	Church and State
		114	Communism
		115	Communism, Soviet
		116	Comte, Auguste
		117	Cullmann, Oscar
		118	Dewey, John
		119	Directions in Protestant Theology
		120	Ebner, Ferdinand
		121	English Empiricists: 18th Century, Locke, Berkeley, Hume
		122	Faith
		122A	French Revolution – Napoleon
		123.1	Freud and Psychoanalysis
		123.2	Freud and Psychoanalysis
		123A.1	Greek and Jewish Society
		124	Greeley, Andrew M.
		125	Hegel, Georg W. F.
		126	Heidegger, Martin
		127	History
		128	The Individual and Mass Society
		129	Intellectuals
		130	Jaspers, Karl
		131.1	Judaism
		131.2	Judaism
		131.3	Judaism
		132	Kafka, Franz
		133	Kant, Immanuel
		134	Kierkegaard, S?ren
		135	Language
		136	Logical Positivism, Linguistic Analysis, and Meta-physics
		137	Luxemberg, Rosa
		138	Machiavelli, Niccolo
		139	Marcuse, Herbert
		140	Maritain, Jacques
		141.1	Marxism (1931-1934)
		141.2	Marxism (1935-1940)
		141.3	Marxism
		141.4	Marxism
		142	Marxism and Communism
		143	Marxism and Labor in the U. S. A.
		144	Marxism and Political Thought
		145	Marxism and War
		146	Mass Society
		147.1	Medieval Studies
		147.2	Medieval Studies
		148	Miscellaneous Notes
		149	Modes of Theologizing
		150	Myth and Mythmaking
		150A	New Testament Times
		151	Niebuhr, H. Richard
		152.1	Niebuhr, Reinhold (1935-1949)
		152.2	Niebuhr, Reinhold (1950-1965)
		152.3	Niebuhr, Reinhold
		152A.1	Pagan Empire – Constantine, Augustine, Ambrose
		153	Papal Social Encyclicals
		154	Philosophy and Metaphysics
		155	Philosophy, Politics, and Ideology
		156	The Problem of Religious Liberty 157.1 Protestantism
		157.1	Protestantism
		157.2	Protestantism
		158	Psychology: Adler, Jung, Rank
		159	Reading Notes From Herberg's Marxist Period
		160	Reformation and Reformers: Luther/Calvin
		161.1	Religion in America
		161.2	Religion in America
		162	Rosenzweig, Franz
		163	Rousseau, Jean Jacques
		164	Russell, Bertrand
		165	Sartre, Jean-Paul
		166	Structuralism
		167	A Theological Note on Art
		168.1	Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Thought
		168.2	Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Thought
		169	Tillich, Paul
		170	Toynbee, Arnold
		171	Troeltsch, Ernst
		172	Two Orders: Nature and Spirit
		173	Urban-Suburban Realities
		174	Vatican II
		175	Vico, Giambattista
		176	Whitehead, Alfred North
		177	World at War
		178	Young Americans for Freedom, University Research Committee
		179	Zen Buddhism
XII. Photographs
		180	Photographs
XIII. Public Lectures (by Subject)
		181	Anxiety, Faith...
			Contents: Anxiety, Despair, & Faith: Beyond Despair Anxiety, Faith, and the Courage to Be Psychiatry and Religion Religion in Life: An Inquiry Religion in Personality Development Salvation without God
		182	Approaches to Religion
			Contents: Approaches to Religion The Biblical-Existential Approach to Religion The Challenge and Decision of Faith Faith and Existence Frontiers of Thought: Religion & the Integration of Life The Need for Religion Present-day Alternatives to a Living Faith Religion, Reality and Illusion Sceptics Question Religion Some Comments on Quaker Mysticism as a Doctrine of Certainty What hope for the Wasteland: The Answer of Judaism Why a Philosophy of Religion Why Bother about Religion
		183	Biblical Theology
			Contents: Biblical Faith and the Contemporary Mind Biblical Faith and the Vocation of Man The Biblical View of History The Doctrine of Man in Current Religious Thought Faith, History and the Drama of Redemption Fundamental Positions of Biblical Faith God and Man in the Old Testament The God of the Bible and the Gods of Modern Man The God of the Bible and the Gods of Modern Men Hebraic Foundations of the Christian Faith Introduction (The Scandal of Particularity) Premarital Sexual Relations Some Aspects of Nationalism in the Light of Biblical theology Some Basic Features of New Testament Ethics Some Basic Features of the Newer Protestant Theology The Strange New World of the Bible Understanding the Bible What is Man?
		184	Church - State: Outline
			Contents: A Religion or Religion? Religious Communities in Present-day America
		185	Communism, Democracy and Religion
			Contents: The Challenge of Communism Communism as Religion Communism, Democracy and Religion Faith, Totalitarianism, and Democracy
		186	The Death of God Theology
			Contents: The Death of God Theology The Problem of Faith in a Godless World
		187	Labor and Unionism
			Contents: Attitudes to the Labor Movement Bureaucracy and Democracy in Labor Unions The Church and Organized Labor Democracy in the Trade Union Movement Judaism, Labor and Social Justice Labor Unionism in a Religious Perspective Limited vs. Total Unionism On the Possibility & Limits of Controversy Organization, Power, and Justice Problem of Leadership in a Needle Trades Union Union Leaders in Psycho-Social Relation to their Membership
		188.1	Moral Crisis I
		188.2	Moral Crisis II
		189	Outlines (Public Lectures in Outline Form)
			Contents: American Foreign Policy in the Present Crisis Assimilation: Old and New Attitudes to the Labor Movement Behind the Iron Curtain Capitalism and Socialism in Light of the Judeo—Christian Ethic Civil Rights in Trade Unions Communism and Judaism Communists in the Educational System Critique of Pacifism: Lecture The End of a Schism: Socialism and Religion For Dialectics and Doubletalk Franz Rosenzweig: Pioneer of the "New Thinking" in Religion From Communism to Judaism Fundamental Problems of the Labor Movement Today The Future of Jewish Culture in America The Jew, the Land and the World Jewish Existence and Survival: A Theological View Jewish Religion as a Dynamic for Social Action Jewish Religion in the Modern World Labor and Politics in the Coming Period Marxism and Judaism The New Role of Religion in Contemporary Social Thinking Personalism and Democracy Personalism, Socialism and Democracy Present Situation and Problems of the Labor Movement Relevance of Religion to the Crisis of our Time Religion and Ethics Religious Foundations of Interfaith Work Salvation Some Comments on Faith and History by Reinhold Niebuhr Statement of Will Herberg for Panel Discussion "Civil Rights in Trade Unions" Towards a New Philosophy of Social Action Trade Union Racketeering Untitled Lecture on Frontier Fellowship (Madison, WI: April 6, 1951) Untitled Lecture on Trade Unions (Cornell University: April 20, 1947) What Can Judaism Do for Me? What Does it Mean to be a Jew? What I Owe Franz Rosenzweig What Is This Religion of Ours? What it Means to be a Jew
		190	The Proliferation of Knowledge and the Task of Theology
			Contents: Faith and Secular Learning The Proliferation of Knowledge and the Task of Theology
		191	Public Education
			Contents: Public Education and the Religious School in America Religious Conflict in America: Issues of Church and State
		192	Religion and Social Concern
			Contents: Christian Faith and Totalitarian Rule Religion and Social Concern The Religious Dimension of Contemporary Social Concern
		193	Religion and the Issues of Contemporary Life and Culture
			Contents: Judaism and Issues of Contemporary Life Judaism and Race Judaism and Religious Institutions Judaism, Economics and Social Action Judaism, Nationalism and World Community Judaism, Sex and the Family Religion and Art Religion and Science
		194	Science - Philosophy
			Contents: Modern Science and Religion Relativism: Examination and Critique The Relevance of Religion to the Social Sciences Religion and the Social Sciences Religious Presuppositions in Science
		195	Theology and Education
			Contents: Biblical Faith and Liberal Education Convocation Address, Ohio Wesleyan University, February 25, 1963 The Place of Religion in the University Religion and Effective Teaching Three Views of Man Toward a Biblical Theology of Education
XIV. Public Lectures (by Title)
		196	American Civil Religion
		197	American Society and Education: Pluralism, Freedom, Totalitarianism (Calvin College)
		198	Assimilation: The Jew, the Land, and the World
		199	Athens and Jerusalem
		200	Biblical Faith and Man Made Religion
		201	Capitalism and Socialism in the Light of the Judeo-Christian Ethic
		202	China: Social, Economic and Political Surveys
		203	The Church under the Pressure of the World
		204	Communism vs. Judaism
		205	Conference of Jewish Relations: Tercentenary Conference on American Jewish Sociology
		206	The Council, the Ecumenical Movement, and the Problem of Aggiornamento
		207	Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civil Order
		208	The Future of Conservatism in America
		209	The Integration of the Jew in America
		210	An Interpretation of Jewish Ethics
		211	Jewish Religion
		212	Jews and the Present War
		213	Judaism as Religion of Personal Decision and Commitment
		214	Medieval Anthropology
		215	On Academic Freedom
		216	Personalism, Socialism and Democracy
		217	Religion and Public Life
		218	Religion in America (Barnard Lectures)
		219	Religion in America: Today and Tomorrow (Phillips University Lectures)
		220	Socialism, Zionism, and the Messianic Passion
		221	Three Lectures on Jewish Religion
		222	Toward a Biblical Theology of Higher Education
		223	What is Man?
		224	What Keeps Modern Man from Religion?
XV. Publications Material
		225	"Business Enterprise in Moral Perspective" (Copy of an article in Moral Man and Economic Enterprise, Laurence G. Lavengood, ed. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968)
		226	Judaism and Modern Man. (Typescript and Questions)
		227	Protestant, Catholic, Jew. (Mimeographed chapter and Questions)
XVI. Sermons
		228	Sermons
			Contents: Faith and Responsibility Homily at the Communion Service... June 5, 1961 A Jew Looks at Jesus The Strangeness of Faith What Does it Mean to Have a God?
XVII. Interviews
		229	Transcribed Interview Herberg and William Buckley
		230	Edited Herberg - Buckley Interview with Introduction by Thomas C. Oden. Letters between Oden and Buckley. "The Strengths of Our System"

Herberg Collection: A Guide to the Papers and Annotated Texts

CONTENTS

PREFACE

HERBERG COLLECTION PAPERS

ANNOTATED TEXTS