The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2007

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2007

St. Paul's shipwreck and early Christianity in Malta.
January 1, 2007... Small islands have a need for a myth of national identity. The small Central Mediterranean archipelago of Malta, geographically located on the respective peripheries of Muslim North Africa and Christian Europe, has since the Late Middle Ages...

Constructing another kind of German: Catholic commemorations of German unification in Baden, 1870-1876.
January 1, 2007... This essay discusses how Badenese Catholics responded to the nationalist rhetoric surrounding German unification in 1871. Faced with a Protestant dominated commemorative discourse aimed at reinforcing the Protestant hegemony over the definition...

The American College of Louvain.
January 1, 2007... The American College of the Immaculate Conception in Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, has been preparing young men for service as priests to the Church in North America for one hundred and fifty years. Conceived in 1857 by Martin J. Spalding, Bishop...

Priests, mountains, and "Sacred Space" in early modern Europe.(Les Pretres des montagnes: La vie, la mort, la foi dans les Pyrenees centrales sous l'Ancien Regime)(Clerges, Communautes et Familles des Montagnes d'Europe: Actes du colloque "Religion et montagnes")(Montagnes sacrees d'Europe: Actes du colloque "Religion et montagnes")(Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe)(Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Les Pretres des montagnes; La vie, la mort, la foi dans les Pyrenees centrales sous l'Ancien Regime (Val d'Aran et diocese de Comminges). By Serge Brunet. (Aspet: Universatim Pyregraph. 2001. Pp. 863.) Clerges, Communautes et Familles des...

The Catholic Church through the Ages. A History.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Catholic Church through the Ages. A History. By John Vidmar, O.P (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 360. $18.95 paperback.) At the outset the author notes the obvious difficulty of achieving balance in...

Storia della santita nel cristianesimo occidentale.(t tempo dei santi tra Oriente e Occidente: Liturgia e agiografia dal tardo antico al concilio di Trento)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Storia della santita nel cristianesimo occidentale. By Anna Benvenuti, Sofia Boesch Gajano, Simon Ditchfield, Roberto Rusconi, Francesco Scorza Barcellona, and Gabriella Zarri. [Sacro/Santo, 9.] (Rome: Viella. 2005. Pp. 427. [euro]28.00...

The Oxford History of Christian Worship.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Oxford History of Christian Worship. Edited by Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 916. $55.00.) It is truly admirable that a work of this breadth (and length) is at...

Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church. By Michael Pasquarello III. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. viii, 143. $15.00 paperback.) This volume seeks to...

Natural Law, Laws of Nature, and Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Natural Law, Laws of Nature, and Natural Rights. Continuity and Discontinuiy in the History of Ideas. By Francis Oakley. (New York: Continuum Press. 2005. Pp. 143. $29.95.) This excellent book provides a sophisticated but accessible...

Die Zisterzienser: Geschichte eines europaischen Ordens.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Die Zisterzienser: Geschichte eines europaischen Ordens. By Immo Eberl. (Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2002. Pp. 614. [euro]29,90.) This is the most recent comprehensive history of the Cistercians from the foundation of Citeaux in 1098...

English Catholic Historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... English Catholic Historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954. By John Vidmar, O.P. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. Distributed in the USA by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2005. Pp. vii, 196. $69.50.) The title could be "Some English...

The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody. By David W. Bebbington. [A History of Evangelicalism: People, Movement and Ideas in the English-Speaking World.] (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press. 2005. Pp. 288....

From Apostles to Bishops: The Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... From Apostles to Bishops: The Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church. By Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: The Newman Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 253. $28.95.) Father Sullivan's confessional allegiances are not...

Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries. The Apologies, Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries. The Apologies, Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts. By Helen Rhee. (Routledge Early Church Monographs.] (New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xiv, 266. Paperback.) ...

Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature: A Literary History.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature: A Literary History. By Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli. Translated by Matthew J. O'Connell. 2 vols. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 455; xxvi, 734. $99.95.)...

Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts. Edited by Patricia Cox Miller. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 340. $29.95.) Patricia Cox Miller has provided a sourcebook for the...

Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History. Edited and Translated by Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 220. $48.00.) If there were ever any doubts that...

Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages. By Kevin L. Hughes. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 278. $59.95.) This handsome...

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... There is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. By Michael Gaddis. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 39.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 396.) One of...

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. By Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, XXXVIII.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 250. $45.00.) ...

Augustine: A New Biography.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Augustine: A New Biography. By James J. O'Donnell. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers. 2005. Pp. xvi, 396. $26.95.) The subtitle of this new life of Augustine announces a biography. It is both that and rather more. Before O'Donnell's...

Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. By Nicole Chareyron. Translated by W. Donald Wilson. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 287. $45.00.) For medieval Christians the pilgrimage to Jerusalem was an act of...

The Foundations of Medieval English Ecclesiastical History: Studies Presented to David Smith.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Foundations of Medieval English Ecclesiastical History: Studies Presented to David Smith. Edited by Philippa Hoskin, Christopher Brooke, and Barrie Dobson. [Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, vol. 27.] (Rochester, New York:...

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389. By Dawn Marie Hayes. [Studies in Medieval History and Culture.] (New York and London: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 193. $78.00.) Buildings deemed as sacred in the Middle Ages were never...

The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral. By Robert A. Scott. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 292.) On the surface, this book is a study about the great sacred structures of the High...

A Call to Piety: Saint Bonaventure's Collations on the Six Days.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... A Call to Piety: Saint Bonaventure's Collations on the Six Days. By C. Colt Anderson. (Quincy, Illinois: Franciscan Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 213. $21.95 paperback.) In the introduction to his book, Colt Anderson compares Bonaventure's...

Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination. By John V. Tolan. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 372. $52.50 cloth; $22.50 paper.) For the past forty years, there have been two standard reference works on this...

Cistercian Nuns and Their World.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Cistercian Nuns and Their World. Edited by Meredith Parsons Lillich. [Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, 6.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp. xii, 366. $49.95.) This is the first book to be devoted to a...

The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century. Introduction, translation, and annotations by Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan with the assistance of George T. Dennis and Stamatina McGrath. [Dumbarton...

Crusader Art in The Holy Land: From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Crusader Art in The Holy Land: From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291. By Jaroslav Folda. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. lxvii, 714; 11 colour plates, 10 maps, 415 figures, 501 illustrations on the compact disc....

Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam. By Yaacov Lev. (Gainsville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. x, 215. $59.95.) Charitable institutions--hospitals for the sick, homes for orphans, asylums for the...

The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town. By Marcia Kupfer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 202 plus 117 figures. $45.00.) Marcia Kupfer's lively book is a model of...

The Mirror of Salvation: Speculum Humanae Salvationis. An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Mirror of Salvation: Speculum Humanae Salvationis. An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784. Translation and commentary by Albert C. Labriola and John W. Smeltz. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 194; 58 black...

Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500. By Kathleen Kamerick. [The New Middle Ages, Series No. 27.] (New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 292. $89.95.) Kathleen Kamerick refers to the...

Suppliques et Requetes. Le Gouvernement par la Grace en Occident (XIIe-XVe Siecle).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Suppliques et Requetes. Le Gouvernement par la Grace en Occident (XIIe-XVe Siecle). Edited by Helene Millet. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, 310.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome. 2003. Pp. 434. [euro]45.00 paperback.) The product...

Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. By George W. Dameron. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. x, 374. $65.00.) From 1250 to 1330 Florence suffered a succession of overlapping...

Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers: Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers: Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444). By Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby. [Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 4.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols...

Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation. By Brian Patrick McGuire. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 446. $85.00 clothbound; $30.00 paperback.) More than forty years ago now, in the...

Ordensreform und Konziliarismus: Der Franziskanerprovinzial Matthias Doring (1427-1461).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Ordensreform und Konziliarismus: Der Franziskanerprovinzial Matthias Doring (1427-1461). By Petra Weigel. [Jenaer Beitrage zur Geschichte, Band 7.] (Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bern-Brussels-NewYork-Oxford-Vienna: Peter Lang. 2005. Pp. 540.) ...

Storia economica del clero in Europa: Secoli XV-XIX.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Storia economica del clero in Europa: Secoli XV-XIX. By Fiorenzo Landi. [Studi superiori, Studi storici, 505.] (Rome: Carocci Editore. 2005. Pp. 209. [euro]17.50 paperback.) When a title promises four hundred years of economic history one...

Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. By Franz Posset. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, CVIII.] (Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill. 2005. Pp. xix, 196. $156.00 or [euro]109,00.) This book consists...

Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750. By Jodi Bilinkoff. (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 181. $45.00.) The implicit question Jodi Bilinkoff addresses here is one that has been...

The Cambridge Companion to Raphael.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to Raphael. Edited by Marcia B. Hall. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 416; 39 plates. $95.00.) The recent exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, "Raphael: From Urbino to Rome,"...

Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin. By John Beldon Scott. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 443, 214 figures, 16 color plates. $75.00.) It is always a great pleasure to have in one's...

Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna By Nicholas Terpstra. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 123rd Series (2005), Nr. 4.] (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...

Scipione Borghese als Kardinalprotektor: Studien zur romischen Mikropolitik in der fruhen Neuzeit.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Scipione Borghese als Kardinalprotektor: Studien zur romischen Mikropolitik in der fruhen Neuzeit. By Martin Faber. (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. 2005. Pp. x, 544. [euro]51.) This valuable volume belongs to the series of studies of the...

La Biblioteca Ambrosiana tra Roma, Milano e l'Europa: Federico Borromeo Fondatore della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Atti delle giornate di studio 25-27 novembre 2004.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... La Biblioteca Ambrosiana tra Roma, Milano e l'Europa: Federico Borromeo Fondatore della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Atti delle giornate di studio 25-27 novembre 2004. Edited by Franco Buzzi and Roberta Ferro [Studia Borromaica. Saggi e documenti di...

Juan van der Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Juan van der Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid. By William B. Jordan. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. 336, 170 black and white and 75 color illustrations. $ 60.00.) Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631) is the most...

The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. By George W. Bernard. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 736. $40.00.) The King's Reformation charts the religious twists and turn of...

Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation and Lived Experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Lest We Be Damned. Practical Innovation and Lived Experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642. By Lisa McClain. [Religion in History, Society, and Culture, 6.] (New York and London: Routledge. 2004. Pp. xvi, 393.) For a...

Samuel Werenfels: Il dibattito sulla liberta di coscienza a Basilea agli inizi del settecento.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Samuel Werenfels: Il dibattito sulla liberta di coscienza a Basilea agli inizi del settecento. By Camilla Hermanin. [Studi e Testi per la Storia della Tolleranza in Europa nei Secoli XVI-XVIII, Volume 7.] (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore....

Rus' Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryckyj 1610-1630.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Rus Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryckyj 1610-1630. Translated and annotated with an introduction by David Frick. [Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature English Translations: Volume VII.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598-1665.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598-1665. By Diane C. Margolf. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 67.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 227. $36.00...

Les jesuites a Lyon XVIe-XXe siecles.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Les jesuites a Lyon XVIe-XXe siecles. Edited by Etienne Fouilloux and Bernard Hours. [Collection Societe, Espaces, Temps.] (Lyon: ENS editions. 2005. Pp. 274. [euro]32.00 paperback.) The thirteen studies on Jesuit history presented here,...

Souverain et Pontife: Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine a l'Age de la Restauration (1814-1846).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Souverain et Pontife: Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine a l'Age de la Restauration (1814-1846). By Philippe Boutry. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, 300.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome. 2002. Pp. xviii, 785.) This...

Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes: Correspondance.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes: Correspondance. Edited by Bernard Joassart. [Tabularium hagiographicum, 1.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2002. Pp. 252. [euro]50,00 paperback.) Scholars of modernism are well aware of...

Catholic and French Forever. Religious and National Identity in Modern France.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Catholic and French Forever. Religious and National Identity in Modern France. By Joseph F. Byrnes. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 278. $50.00.) Joseph Byrnes argues that Catholicism has played an...

Caritas: un siecle de charite organisee en Alsace. La Federation de Charite du Diocese de Strasbourg 1903-2003.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Caritas: un siecle de charite organisee en Alsace. La Federation de Charite du Diocese de Strasbourg 1903-2003. By Catherine Maurer. (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe. 2003. Pp. 157. [euro]14,00.) Works of charity are central to Christianity,...

The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850. By Emmet Larkin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press; Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 298. $69.95.) Professor Emmet Larkin has...

Archbishop Charles Agar: Churchmanship and Politics in Ireland, 1760-1810.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Archbishop Charles Agar: Churchmanship and Politics in Ireland, 1760-1810. By A. P.W. Malcolmson. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. xvi, 678. [pounds sterling]60; $75.00.) ...

Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland. Edited by Sheridan Gilley. [Catholic Record Society Publication, Monograph Series, Vol. 7.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 387. $80.00.) ...

Der Begriff des Politischen in der russisch-orthodoxen Tradition. Zum Verhaltnis von Kirche, Staat und Gesellschaft in Russland.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Der Begriff des Politischen in der russisch-orthodoxen Tradition. Zum Verhaltnis von Kirche, Staat und Gesellschaft in Russland. By Konstantin Kostjuk. [Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Gorres-Gesellschaft,...

Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite. Authorized and revised biography by her Prioress Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D; edited by Susanne M. Batzdorff, Josephine Koeppel, and John Sullivan. (Washington, D.C.: ICS...

Pie XII: Diplomate et Pasteur.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Pie XII: Diplomate et Pasteur. By Philippe Chenaux. (Paris: Les editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 462. [euro]28 paperback.) Chenaux was on the spot when the Vatican archives rendered accessible to researchers its holdings concerning relations...

Un Diplomatico Vaticano fra Dopoguerra e Dialogo: Mons. Mario Cagna (1911-1986).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Un Diplomatico Vaticano fra Dopoguerra e Dialogo: Mons. Mario Cagna (1911-1986). Edited by Alberto Melloni and Maurilio Guasco. [Santa Sede e Politica nel Novecento, 1.] (Bologna: Societa Editrice il Mulino. 2003. Pp. xii, 389. [euro]32.00...

The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Old Religion in a New World. The History of North American Christianity. By Mark A. Noll. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $24.00 paperback.) Finding out about a book on how European...

The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico. By Michael P. Carroll. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. vii, 260. $45.00.) A gifted, lucid writer and a great narrator of fiction, the...

The Columbia Guide to Irish American History.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Columbia Guide to Irish American History. By Timothy J. Meagher. [The Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures.] (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 398. $47.50.) The distinguished historian of Irish America...

All Things Human: Henry Codman Potter and the Social Gospel in the Episcopal Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... All Things Human: Henry Codman Potter and the Social Gospel in the Episcopal Church. By Michael Bourgeois. [Studies in Anglican History.] (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. 299. $34.95.) A graduate of Virginia...

To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. By Stanley M. Hordes. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 348. $39.50.) More than twenty years ago, historian Stanley Hordes announced to the press and...

The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume VI: Life by Communion, 1842. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 46.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2005. Pp. iv, 532. $47.00 paperback.) This is the...

Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Vale of Tears. New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Edited by Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole. (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 265. $49.95 clothbound; $25.00 paperback.) In a series of twelve essays, Edward...

Thomas Merton: Prophet of Renewal.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Thomas Merton: Prophet of Renewal. By John Eudes Bamberger, OCSO. (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp. xii, 132.) A wise person once said: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." A basic theme of Merton:...

Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier. By Mark G. McGowan. [McGill-Queen's University Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two, Vol. 27.] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press....

Eternal Memory! Father Achiel Delaere (1868-1939): The First Eastern Rite Redemptorist and Canada's Ukrainian Catholic Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Eternal Memory! Father Achiel Delaere (1868-1939): The First Eastern Rite Redemptorist and Canada's Ukrainian Catholic Church. By Jozef De Vocht, CSSR. Translated by Christian Roy. (Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Gravelbooks, distributed by Laverdure &...

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970. By Michael Gauvreau. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion.] (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 501. Can. $85.00.) At this time, several...

Lonergan's Quest: A Study of Desire in the Authoring of Insight.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Lonergan's Quest: A Study of Desire in the Authoring of Insight. By William A. Mathews. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. x, 564. $100.00.) Mathews, a Jesuit philosopher at the Milltown Institute, Dublin, offers an...

Natural and Moral History of the Indies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Natural and Moral History of the Indies. By Jose de Acosta. Edited by Jane E. Mangan, with an Introduction and Commentary by Walter D. Mignolo. Translated by Frances Lopez-Morillas. [Chronicles of the New World Order. Latin America in...

Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. By...

Notes and comments.
January 1, 2007... Conferences, Meetings, Lectures On October 13-14, 2006 the Thirty-Third Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscripts was held at the Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Among the panels of papers were "Outside the Book of Hours:...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... Patrick J. McGeever's review of my book, Harry, Tom and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War in your April 2006 issue (pp. 298-299) misrepresents how I present a key element of the book. Noting that my uncle, Harry...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... General and Miscellaneous Propheten und Martyrer im Gedachtnis der Kirche. Zur okumenischen Bedeutung von Martyrern und Heiligen. Lukas Vischer. Okumenische Rundschau, 55 (July, 2006), 306-340. Saints et heros: vies paralleles et...

Other books received.
January 1, 2007... Bales, Susan Ridgely. When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 257. $55.00 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Bergant, Dianne, C.S.A. Israel's...