Recently added articles from The Catholic Historical Review:
JACQUES MARITAIN, THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL, AND THE HOLOCAUST
Jan 01, 2009; ... French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) gained a reputation both as a leading Catholic intellectual and as an outspoken critic of antisemitism, and as such has been lauded for more than fifty years as a progressive influence within twentieth-century Catholicism. He also has been cited as ...
JOURNEY TO THE HEADWATERS: BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT
Jan 01, 2009; ... This essay compares the theological orientation of Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) with those of two other notable colonial Latin American ecclesial figures: Toribio de Benavente Motolinía (1494/95-1565), and Juan Vasco de Quiroga (1477/78- 1565). An examination of the experiential and ...
"DIVERSITY AND INDEPENDENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL MARKETPLACE": THE RHODE ISLAND CEF AND THE 1968 TUITION-GRANT DEBATE
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article focuses on the argument over state aid to nonpublic education in Rhode Island in the late 1960s. The author examines the acrimonious debate surrounding the proposed 1968 tuition-grant bill sponsored by the Rhode Island chapter of the Citizens for Educational Freedom, a national ...
ERASMUS'S CONTROVERSIES
Jan 01, 2009; ... ERASMUS'S CONTROVERSIES Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii. Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti Pii. Brevissima scholia. By Desiderius Erasmus. Edited by Nelson H. Minnich; translated by Daniel J. Sheerin; annotated by Nelson H. Minnich and Daniel J. Sheerin ....
Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives
Jan 01, 2009; ... General and Miscellaneous Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. Edited by Nick Salvatore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. x, 196. $60.00 clothbound, ISBN 978-0-252-03143-4; $25.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-07382-3) In my first year of graduate studies I ...
Mosaics in the Eternal City
Jan 01, 2009; ... Mosaics in the Eternal City. By Michael G. Sundell. [Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Occasional Publications, Vol. 3] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2007. Pp. x, 211. $39.00 paperback. ISBN 978-0-866-98376-1.) Out of an almost ...
Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity
Jan 01, 2009; ... Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity. By Carter Lindberg. [Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series.] (Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 2008. Pp. xii, 195. $21.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-631-23599-6.) Carter Lindberg's research interests lie in studies of the ...
To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600
Jan 01, 2009; ... To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600. Edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 519. $88.00. ISBN 9780-521-86736-8.) The volume studies "premodern" European marriage documents, ...
Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
Jan 01, 2009; ... Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New. By Daniel T Reff. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 290. $70.00 clothbound, ISBN 978-0-52184078-1; $26.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-60050-7.) This study offers ...
Nostra Aetate: Origins, Promulgation, Impact on Jewish-Catholic Relations. Proceedings of the International Conference, Jerusalem, 30 October-1 November 2005/The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome
Jan 01, 2009; ... Nostra Aetate: Origins, Promulgation, Impact on Jewish-Catholic Relations. Proceedings of the International Conference, Jerusalem, 30 October1 November 2005- Edited by Neville Lamdan and Alberto Melloni. [Christianity and History: Series of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in ...
A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church
Jan 01, 2009; ... A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church. By Robert Michael. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. Pp. x, 282. $74.95. ISBN 9780-230-60388-2.) This book lives up to its subtitle, presenting in detail "the dark side" of Christian attitudes toward Judaism and ...
Gli archivi per la storia degli ordini religiosi. Vol. 1: Fonti e problemi (secoli XVI-XIX)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Gli archivi per la storia degli ordini religiosi. Vol. 1: Fonti e problemi (secoli XVI-XIX). Edited by Massimo Carlo Giannini and Matteo Sanfilippo. [Studi di storia delle instituzioni ecclesiastiche, 1.] (Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2007. Pp. 304. euro25,00. ISBN ...
The Emerging Diaconate: Servant Leaders in a Servant Church
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Emerging Diaconate: Servant Leaders in a Servant Church. By William T. Ditewig. (New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2007. Pp. x, 258. $21.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-809-14449-5.) With his ministerial experience, past work as a director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ...
The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec. Edited by Leslie Woodcock Tentler. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 2007. Pp. x, 302. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-813-21494-8.) A comparison of the rise and fall ...
A Better Wine: Essays Celebrating Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D.
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Better Wine: Essays Celebrating Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. Edited by Kevin Culligan, O.C.D. [Carmelite Studies, 10.] (Washington, DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 353. $13.95. ISBN 978-0-935-21641-7.) Historians of the future will have much to say about the revival ...
The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ancient Church The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction. By Humbertus R. Drobner. Translated by Siegfried S. Schatzmann with bibliographies updated and expanded for the English edition by William Harmless, S.J., and Humbertus Drobner. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. 2007 ....
Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
Jan 01, 2009; ... Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge. By Edwin A. Judge. Edited by David M. Scholer. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 2008. Pp. xx, 227. $24.95 paperback. ISBN 9781-565-63880-8.) Edwin A. Judge is a well-known classicist who ...
Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine
Jan 01, 2009; ... Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine. By Kevin Uhalde. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp viii, 233. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-812-23987-4.) In the space between Peter Brown's Power and Persuasion in the Late Antique World and Carole Straw's Gregory the Great: ...
The Crisis of the Oikoumene: The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Crisis of the Oikoumene: The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean. Edited by Celia Chazelle and Catherine Cubitt. [Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 14.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2007. Pp. xii, 304. euro60,00. ISBN ...
Holy Power, Holy Presence: Rediscovering Medieval Metaphors for the Holy Spirit
Jan 01, 2009; ... Medieval Holy Power, Holy Presence: Rediscovering Medieval Metaphors for the Holy Spirit. By Elizabeth A. Dreyer. (New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2007. Pp. vi , 344. $24.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-809-14485-3.) Lamenting neglect of the Holy Spirit has long been a topos in modern ...