Background
Tanis, James Robert was born on June 26, 1928 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Christian and Bertha Marie (Tobiasson) Tanis.
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This volume records a remarkable collaborative exhibition that assembles for the first time eighty illuminated manuscripts of great quality, drawn from collections of eleven institutions in the greater Philadelphia area. Almost every artistic centre in medieval and Renaissance Western Europe is represented in this wonderfully diverse group of images, as well as almost every major known type of early illuminated book: Psalters, Bibles, Books of Hours, a wide variety of liturgical manuscripts, and many types of literary and secular texts. The delicate miniatures in these manuscripts did not appear alone; they were surrounded by words and are therefore invaluable historical objects, not only commenting on the texts that they decorate, but also revealing the art, customs, and styles of the times. The works that are to found in this magnificent book range from the religious to the moralising to the romantic and include such treasures as a superb Book of Hours once owned by the Earl of Pembroke, an elegantly illuminated copy of Saint Augustine's City of God. With their jewel-like colours, intimate scale, and often whimsical marginalia, illuminating manuscripts provide an especially engaging glimpse into the past.
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(The word "pietism" usually conjures up a host of ambivale...)
The word "pietism" usually conjures up a host of ambivalent im pressions. It has seemed to me increasingly clear that many of the strengths of pietism have been swept aside by reactions against the excesses of the movement. To properly assess the structures of pietism, it is important to comprehend its matrix and to understand its ex ponents. In preparing this study, therefore, I have sought to recapture something of the person of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen as well as the gist of his thought; something of his environment as well as the institutions of his day. To achieve this I have traveled many by-paths and knocked on many doors. But the past has not always yielded its secrets; much is lost forever. Hagen in Westphalia, Frelinghuysen's birthplace, is now a modern city and only in a few isolated particulars is it reminiscent of Hagen in 1693. In the nearby village of Schwerte, however, the ancestral church of his forebears remains as it was nearly three hundred years ago. The gymnasium he attended in Hamm was destroyed in the bombings ofW orld War II, though the library he used during his study at Lingen is still largely intact. In the tiny East-Frisian village of Loegumer Voorwerk, Frelinghuysen's first parish, one can still stand in the pulpit where he first preached his awakening gospel. Yet oddly enough, in America, where his name is most remembered, most physical traces of his life have disappeared.
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clergyman history professor library director
Tanis, James Robert was born on June 26, 1928 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Christian and Bertha Marie (Tobiasson) Tanis.
Bachelor, Yale, 1951. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1954. Doctor Theological, University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1967.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1994.
Co-pastor Greystone Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1954-1955. Librarian, member faculty Harvard Division School, 1956-1965. University librarian Yale University, 1965-1968.
Member faculty Yale Division School, 1968-1969. Director libraries, professor history Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1969-1997. Guest curator Philadelphia Museum Art, 1997—2002.
Parish associate Valley Forge Presbyterian Church, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 1973—2005.
(This volume records a remarkable collaborative exhibition...)
(The word "pietism" usually conjures up a host of ambivale...)
Married Florence Borgmann, June 26, 1963 (deceased June 2006). Children Justin Edward, James Tobiasson.