Recently added articles from Church History:
Billy Graham's America.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... BILLY and I hit New York City at the same time, the summer of 1957. He was 38 and about to clinch his reputation as the premier evangelist in twentieth-century America. I was twelve and about to taste freedom. But not quite yet. Without my permission, my parents packed themselves and me ...
Liturgists and dance in the twelfth century: the witness of John Beleth and Sicard of Cremona.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... DANCING is not often associated with Christian liturgy, at least in modern experience. Yet according to the Mitralis de Officio of Sicard, bishop of Cremona (1185-1215), composed about 1200, the circular dance (chorea) provides a key metaphor for understanding the liturgy of Easter. (2) ...
"I am wholly your own": liturgical piety and community among the nuns of Helfta.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... WHEN William James long ago characterized the God of the thirteenth-century Cistercian cloister of Helfta, in Saxony, as "full of partiality for his individual favorites," (2) he might have illustrated his claim with any number of passages from three of the surviving works composed by the ...
Luigi Lippomano, his vicars, and the reform of Verona from the pulpit.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... LUIGI Lippomano was a deeply worried man. He had heard that Lutheran ideas were being debated openly in Verona--even in such inappropriate places as the piazzas, the workshops, the taverns, and even the women's washrooms." (2) As bishop of Verona, responsible for the city's spiritual ...
"Family values" and the formation of a Christian right agenda.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... DURING his 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter promised social conservatives that, if elected, he would convene a conference examining how the federal government could support American families. That promise--alongside Carter's description of being "born again" and his well-documented ...