Church History back issues from March 2001:
Awards of the American Society of Church History:.
Mar 01, 2001 ... The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, offered annually, is a subvention fund of $1,000 to assist a press in publishing a book-length manuscript in church history. The prize is limited to first books. The monetary grant will be made upon receipt of a commitment in writing from a ...
Church History as Vocation and Moral Discipline.
Mar 01, 2001; ... I should like to acknowledge at the outset that I harbor no grandiose illusions about the import of what I will say this afternoon.(1) As any veteran of annual meetings readily knows, presidential addresses are a time-honored ritual in the life of learned societies, a ritual comparable to ...
The Making of Monastic Demonology: Three Ascetic Teachers on Withdrawal and Resistance.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Although in recent years fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism has received much scholarly attention of increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, conflict with demons, a primary metaphor for the ascetic life in the literature of the period, has been left relatively ...
"Her Duty to Canada": Henriette Feller and French Protestantism in Quebec.
Mar 01, 2001; ... George McTaggart's house sits across the road from the tiny clapboard Baptist church, the only landmark in the postage-stamp sized, rural town of Saint-Blaise, Quebec, a town where, as inhabitants confide, "Protestants and Catholics have always had a love-hate relationship."(1) McTaggart ...
The Forgotten Origins of the Ecumenical Movement in England: The Grindelwald Conferences, 1892-95.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Ruth Rouse, writing in A History of the Ecumenical Movement, made an extraordinary claim about the origins of modern ecumenism. She identified two factors in the 1890s that, in her words, "changed the course of Church history and made possible the modern ecumenical movement."(1) One was ...
Anti-Catholicism in Germany, Britain, and the United States: A Review and Critique of Recent Scholarship.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The past two decades have seen an efflorescence of works exploring cultural anti-Catholicism in a variety of national contexts. But so far, historians have engaged in little comparative analysis. This article is a first step, examining recent historical literature on modern British and ...
The "Secularization" Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
Mar 01, 2001; ... To Our Readers: With this issue Church History inaugurates a regular feature to be called "Perspectives." The aim is to offer authors an opportunity to address significant questions in a format that is somewhat shorter, less formal, and more flexible than the customary ...
Health Care and the Rise of Christianity.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Health Care and the Rise of Christianity. By Hector Avalos. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999. x + 166 pp. n.p. "The ideas of health care reflected in early Christianity constitute a system that was an important factor in attracting converts. As such, these ideas about health ...
Women and Christian Origins.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Women and Christian Origins. Edited by Ross Kraemer and Mary Rose d'Angelo. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 406 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Women and Christian Origins edited by Ross Shephard Kramer and Mary Rose d Angelo will take its place alongside of ...
Christian Engagements with Judaism.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Christian Engagements with Judaism. By W. D. Davies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity, 1999. xxx + 321 pp. $29.00 cloth. This collection of previously published articles by W. D. Davies complements two earlier collections, Christian Origins and Judaism (London: Darton, Longman, & Todd, ...
John Chrysostom.
Mar 01, 2001; ... John Chrysostom. Introduced and translated by Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen. The Early Church Fathers. New York: Routledge, 2000. x + 230 pp. $24.99 paper. The most recent installment of the Early Church Fathers Series is a collection of homilies and letters by John Chrysostom ....
The Augustinian Tradition.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Augustinian Tradition. Edited by Gareth B. Matthews. Philosophical Traditions 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xx + 398 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Editor Gareth B. Matthews has gathered together a world-class group of philosophers to trace vestiges of ...
Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe. By Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxiv + 267 pp. $59.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. Barbara Rosenwein's earlier work has made notable contributions to the ...
Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis. By William T. Flynn. Studies in Liturgical Musicology 8. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999. xxii + 269 pp. $55.00 cloth. In the eleventh century, the mass and the daily office, along with newly composed texts and musical forms added to explain or ...
God Wills It! An Illustrated History of the Crusades.
Mar 01, 2001; ... God Wills It! An Illustrated History of the Crusades. By W. B. Bartlett. New York: Sutton, 1999. xiv + 274 pp. $39.95 cloth. Bartlett presents an easily readable narrative of the series of events leading to the creation and eventual downfall of the Crusader states collectively ...
Gallia Pontificia: La papaute et les eglises et monasteres en France avant 1198, Vol. 1: Diocese de Besancon.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Gallia Pontificia: La papaute et les eglises et monasteres en France avant 1198, Vol. 1: Diocese de Besancon. Edited by Bernard de Vregille, Rene Locatelli, and Gerard Moyse. Regesta Pontificum Romanorum. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 369 pp. $178.00 paper. Before ...
Pope Innocent III and His World.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Pope Innocent III and His World. Edited by John C. Moore. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. xx + 389 pp. $86.95 cloth. More than any Roman pontiff apart perhaps from Gregory VII, Innocent III had an immediate, profound, and lasting impact on the church and society of his time ....
Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. By Peter S. Hawkins. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx + 378. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In refreshing contrast to the many studies that investigate Dante's use or possible use ...
The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England. By Curtis V. Bostick. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 70. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xii + 229 pp. $81.00 cloth. The study of Wycliffites or Lollards (the terms are now largely ...
Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540. By Nicholas Orme. Magdalen College Occasional Paper 4. Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998. xii +84 pp. 8.00 [pound sterling]. A student's plaintive request, from nearly five hundred years ago, that ...
Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583. By Thomas Betteridge. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. x + 246 pp. $86.95 cloth. Thomas Betteridge has furnished in this volume a thoughtful and perceptive examination of the English ...
Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace. By Christopher Marsh. Social History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. x + 258 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. This study of religious life in England during the sixteenth century strives to explain ...
Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England. By Kenneth Charlton. New York: Routledge, 1999. ix + 332 pp. $65.00 cloth. In an era when book titles tend toward the snazzy and uninformative, Kenneth Charlton is to be commended for providing one that exactly summarizes ...
The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins. By Dean Hammer. Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory 13. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. xxvi + 222 pp. $32.95 paper. For several centuries the term "Puritan" was ...
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. By J. L. Heilbron. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 366 pp. $35.00 cloth. Once in a while I find a book I wish I could have written. This is such a book. Heilbron requires the reader to think about ...
Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 226 pp. $38.00 cloth. The study of popular religion, although a growth area in recent historiography, conceals the presence of many ...
The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible: S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906).
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible: S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906). By Irene Eber. Studies in Christian Mission 22. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xvi + 287 pp. $113.00 cloth. Catholic papers in 1880 as there were in 1870. "Large S. I. J. Schereschewsky was born in a tight-knit ...
The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887. By Ronald J. Ross. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xvi + 219 pp. $66.95 cloth. It is the thesis of Ronald Ross that the literature on the ...
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness. By Thomas Albert Howard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 250 pp. $49.95 cloth. Howard's masterful study of ...
Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler. Edited by Frank J. Coppa. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1999. viii + 248 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. This analysis, focused on three Vatican concordats and the effect that ...
Die evangelische Kinderpflege und die Innere Mission in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Mobilmachung der Gemeinden.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Die evangelische Kinderpflege und die Innere Mission in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Mobilmachung der Gemeinden, Band 1, 1933 bis 1937. By Rainer Bookhagen. Arbeiten zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte Reihe B: Darstellungen. Band 29. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 647 pp. 148,00 ...
Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti. By Terry Rey. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World, 1999. x + 362 pp. $21.95 paper. Terry Rey has written an ambitious and deeply problematic book on social class and religion in Haiti. Rey draws on Pierre Bourdieu's ...
Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power. By Michele Dillon. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 289 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Given the Vatican's recent pronouncements, the author's optimistic outlook on the "emancipatory" resources within ...
A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.
Mar 01, 2001; ... A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 511 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. This ...
Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others. By Gerald and Patricia Gutek. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. vi + 230 pp. $16.95 paper. Religious communitarian movements in America have endured a curious history. Present ...
Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America. Edited by Jacob H. Dorn. Contributions in American History 181. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,1998. xvi. + 252 pp. n.p. By the turn of the century, concluded K. S. Inglis in Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian ...
The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith. By David Edwin Harrell Jr. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2000. xx + 472 pp. $34.95 cloth. David Edwin Harrell Jr. first projected a biography of Homer Hailey (1903-2000), a ...
When The Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
Mar 01, 2001; ... When The Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. By Donald E. Collins. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. xii + 178 pp. $29.95 cloth. Retired investment banker and former white Methodist pastor in Alabama between 1952 and ...
Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity.
Mar 01, 2001; ... United Methodism and American Culture. Vol. 1, Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity. Edited by Russell E. Richey, Dennis M. Campbell, and William B. Lawrence. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997. viii + 364 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E ....
The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Vol. 2, The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life. Edited by William B. Lawrence, Dennis M. Campbell, and Russell E. Richey. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. viii + 339 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean of the Candler ...
Doctrines and Discipline.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Vol. 3, Doctrines and Discipline. Edited by Dennis M. Campbell, William B. Lawrence, and Russell E. Richey. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. viii + 364 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, ...
Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Vol. 4, Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church. Edited by Russell E. Richey, William B. Lawrence, and Dennis M. Campbell. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. 343 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory ...
The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource. By David DiSabatino. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies 49. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. xiv + 257 pp. $69.50 cloth. David DiSabatino's bibliography comes at a propitious time as ...
PRIMARY SOURCES AND TEXTS IN TRANSLATION: BOOKS RECEIVED.
Mar 01, 2001 ... The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings. Edited by T. L. Underwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 260 pp. $49.95 cloth. Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected Writings. By Frederick M. Jones. Classics of ...