Bibfeldtiana
"Cover of Newsweek, May 1, 1978 ," Bibfeldt, Franz. Papers, Box 1, Folder 11, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
"Franz Bibfeldt is now in his 82nd year, and thus he will soon be looking forward to joining the dead for whom he has been such a faithful theologian, therapist, and pastor. It is therefor fitting that Newsweek recently profiled him in a cover story. (Unfortunately, it was only the extraterrestrial edition of the magazine that actually had his name on the cover.) Franz Bibfeldt has finally begun to receive the recognition that he has long deserved as pastor and theologian to the dead." Otto Dreydoppel, Jr. "Ministry to and with the Dead," in The Unrelieved Paradox: Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt, 113.
"Bibfeldt Burger," Bibfeldt, Franz. Papers, Box 1, Folder 9, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
"'His dissertation', notes Sam Portaro, Episcopal chaplain at the University's Brent House, 'took him quite literally into the temporal via media and thus established his lasting fascination for the middle way'. Henceforth, Bibfeldt perceived all the world as one of those stomachless Henry Moore sculptures and envisioned himself filling the gap, taking orders and slinging hash in the greasy diner of 20th-century theology. Consequently, the sort-of-annual Bibfeldt symposium, held most years at the Divinity School on All Saints' or April Fools' Day, always begins with bratwurst and beer." Easton, John "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Bibfeldt," The University of Chicago Magazine, Feb 1995, VOLUME 87, NUMBER 3
Like many great theologians, Bibfeldt received letters of esteem from world leaders accused of crimes against humanity!
"Mao-Tse Tung, calligraphed saying," Bibfeldt, Franz. Papers, Box 1, Folder 11, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
"To comrade Bibfeldt: Great critic of the righteous empire of capitalism!
"Signed photograph, Mayor Richard J. Daley," Bibfeldt, Franz. Papers, Box 1, Folder 9, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
"To Franz Bibfeldt - a great and esteemed theologian - Richard J. Daley