Recently added articles from The Catholic Historical Review:
PUERI, IUVENES, AND VIRI: AGE AND UTILITY IN THE GREGORIAN REFORM
Jul 01, 2008; Cushing, Kathleen G ... This article explores the role played by ideas about age and appropriate behavior for different stages of life in shaping the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reformers' vision for an ordered Christian society-notable at a time when the role of the Church and especially the papacy as both the ...
CATHOLICS AND THE ITALIAN REVOLUTIONARY LEFT OF THE 1960s
Jul 01, 2008; Drake, Richard ... Radical left-wing Catholics played an important role in Italy's extraparliamentary revolutionary movement of the 1960s, which took as its starting point the need to fill the void created by the growing moderation of the official Communist party. For guidance in opposing the American-dominated ...
SUFFERING FOR JESUS: PENITENTIAL PRACTICES AT FORT ST. JOSEPH (NILES, MICHIGAN) DURING THE FRENCH REGIME
Jul 01, 2008; Brandão, José António; Nassaney, Michael Shakir ... Scholarship on New France often emphasizes the factors that motivated the establishment of the colony, including the desire to promulgate the spread of Catholicism to Native peoples. However, the place of religion in the lives of the French inhabitants in the farflung outposts in the North ...
EMBRACING ACTIVISM IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: THE SISTERS OF MERCY IN BOPHUTHATSWANA, 1974-94
Jul 01, 2008; Higgs, Catherine; Evans, Jean N ... In South Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century, the Church shifted from a stance of seeming complicity with the government's racist policies to a more active role with the country's peoples. Religious congregations such as the Sisters of Mercy, Johannesburg, moved to increase their ...
Electing Our Bishops. How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders
Jul 01, 2008; Sullivan, Francis A ... Electing Our Bishops. How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders. By Joseph F. O'Callaghan. [A Sheed and Ward Book.] (Lanham, Maryland: Rowrnan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2007. Pp. xiii, 195.) The title and subtitle suggest that this book will consist of the description of ...
Histoire du Christianisme: Pour mieux comprendre notre temps
Jul 01, 2008; Vidmar, John ... General and Miscellaneous Histoire du Christianisme: Pour mieux comprendre notre temps. Edited by Alain Corbin, with Nicole LeMaitre, Françoise Thelamon, and Catherine Vincent. [L'Universe Historique.] (Paris: Éditions du Seuil. 2007. Pp. 475. euro21,00 paperback.) Most one-volume ...
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen/Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust
Jul 01, 2008; Fisher, Eugene J ... Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. By Jeremy Cohen. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 313. $29.95.) Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust. By Robert Michael. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. x, 254 ....
The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You
Jul 01, 2008; Sloyan, Gerard S ... The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You. By Alain Marchadour, A.A., and David Neuhaus, SJ. [The Abrahamic Dialogues Series.] (New York: Fordham University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 239. $40.00.) This work of two priest residents of Jerusalem, one of them an ...
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World
Jul 01, 2008; Dries, Angelyn ... Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Edited by Margaret Cormack. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 280. $49.95.) Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World is the fruition of a conference on the theme held at the College of Charleston, South ...
La chiesa latina in oriente, Volume II: Hierarchia latina orientis
Jul 01, 2008; Minnich, Nelson H ... La chiesa latina in oriente, Volume II: Hierarchia latina orientis. Edited by Giorgio Fedalto. Second edition. [Studi religiosi, 3.] (Verona: Casa Editrice Mazziana. 2006. Pp. 301. euro35,00.) In 1976 Giorgio Fedalto published a companion volume to the series initiated by Konrad Eubel ...
Ukrainian Church History
Jul 01, 2008; Senyk, Sophia ... Ukrainian Church History. Edited by Halyna Hryn. [Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume XXVI, Numbers 1-4, 2002-2003] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. 2007. Pp. 376. $30.00 paperback. ISSN 0363-5570.) This volume of Harvard Ukrainian Studies ...
Swiadectwo w rozmowie z Gian Franco Svidercoschim (Testimony in Conversations with Gian Franco Svidercoschi)
Jul 01, 2008; Hetnal, Adam A ... Swiadectwo w rozmowie z Gian Franco Svidercoschim (Testimony in Conversations with Gian Franco Svidercoschi). By Stanislaw Dziwisz. (Poznan: TBA. 2007. Pp. 232. 29.00 Polish zloty.) Among the many publications on the late Pope John Paul II, there are some that have thrown new light on ...
A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
Jul 01, 2008; Foley, Edward ... A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. By Calvin R. Stapert. [The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies Series.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2007. Pp. xiv, 232. $18.00 paperback.) Late twentieth-century ...
Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus
Jul 01, 2008; Pearson, Birger A ... Ancient Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus. By Marvin Meyer. (New York: HarperOne. 2007. Pp. xii, 181. $22.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-06134-830-3) A number of books about Judas and the Gospel of Judas have been elicited by the ...
Histoire du catéchuménat dans l'église ancienne
Jul 01, 2008; Bradshaw, Paul ... Histoire du catéchuménat dans l'église ancienne. By Paul L. Gavrilyuk. Translated from the Russian by Françoise Lhoest, Nina Mojaïsky and Anne-Marie Gueit. [Initiations aux Pères de l'Église.] (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf. 2007. Pp. 406. euro39,00 paperback. ISBN 978-2-20408-328-7.) It ...
Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church
Jul 01, 2008; Sterk, Andrea ... Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church. By George E. Demacopoulos. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2007. Pp. x, 275. $30.00 paperback.) Several recent studies have analyzed the relationship among asceticism, authority, and episcopal leadership in ...
Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquité, Première partie: Le monachisme latin, Tome XI: La Gaule franque et l'Espagne wisigothique (VIe-VIIe siècle)
Jul 01, 2008; Rousseau, Philip ... Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquité, Première partie: Le monachisme latin, Tome XI: La Gaule franque et l'Espagne wisigothique (VIe-VIIe siècle). By Adalbert de Vogüé, O.S.B. [Patrimoines christianisme.] (Paris: Éditions du Cerf. 2007. Pp. 317. euro39 paperback. ISBN ...
Ignatius of Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin of Episcopacy
Jul 01, 2008; Trevett, Christine ... Ignatius of Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin of Episcopacy. By Alien Brent. (New York: Continuum,T&T Clark. 2007. Pp. xii, 180. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-56703-200-3.) Allen Brent has a long-standing interest in the development of church order in the early Christian centuries, set ...
Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R. I. Moore
Jul 01, 2008; Nederman, Cary J ... Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R. I. Moore. Edited by Michael Frassetto. [Studies in the History of Christian Traditions,Volume 129.] (Leiden: Brill. 2006. Pp. xii, 338. $139.00.) Robert Moore enjoys the distinction of authoring not just one, ...
Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman
Jul 01, 2008; Kaegi, Walter E ... Medieval Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman. Edited by Elizabeth M. Jeffreys. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. M, 436. $145.00.) Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman is a collection of ...