Atla Digital Library Welcomes 3 New Contributors!

We are pleased to welcome three new contributors to the Atla Digital Library! We have added collections from Concordia Theological Seminary, Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, and the Catholic Research Resources Alliance.

Concordia Theological Seminary
Saarinen’s Village – The Concordia Campus Through Time

In 1953, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod commissioned the world-renowned Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen to design a complete campus for Concordia Senior College. Saarinen believed that “a village of the North European type” would provide “a quiet, unified environment into which the students could withdraw to find a complete, balanced life and yet one which is related to the outside world.” The result is a campus that first served Concordia Senior College (1957-1977) and now serves Concordia Theological Seminary (1977-present).

This digital collection documents in pictures and text how the campus was built, expanded, and used during the more than fifty years it has served to form pastors, deaconesses, and others for service to God and His church.

See the full Saarinen’s Village – The Concordia Campus Through Time in the Atla Digital Library.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library
North Carolina Baptist Church Records

The North Carolina Baptist Church Records collection contains material on 118 North Carolina Baptist churches (some dating back to the 1700s) selected from the NC Baptist Historical Collection. Objects digitized include original records, photocopies of records, and microfilmed records. The collection may contain timelines of constitutional dates, associate memberships, and any name changes, divisions, or mergers the church may have gone through; newspaper clippings; brief historical sketches; lists of former and current pastors; church directories; and photographs.

See the full North Carolina Baptist Church Records in the Atla Digital Library.

Catholic Research Resources Alliance
La Esperanza

La Esperanza was a national Catholic Spanish-language publication in Los Angeles, California. Sponsored by the Claretians, the weekly magazine began in 1929 and ended in 1955. The publication’s content focused on Catholic topics relevant to the United States Spanish-speaking population. Directed toward the Mexican community, the magazine printed many articles about the Church-State crisis as well as news from the homeland. This transnational viewpoint provides a unique perspective for the reader. This exceptional publication offers a great opportunity for scholars to uncover the Spanish-speaking communities’ activities during the first half of the twentieth century.

See the full La Esperanza in the Atla Digital Library.

You can see all of these collections and the over 97,000 works in the Atla Digital Library.