Church History articles from December 2000

Church History archives from December 2000

Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity.
December 1, 2000... I. ANCIENT HISTORY, MALE AUTHORS, AND WOMEN ASCETICS: INTRODUCING DEMETRIAS In his influential discussion of early Christian ascetic renunciation, Peter Brown announced that "Christian men used women `to think with' in order to verbalize...

Interpreting Seventeenth-Century English Religion as Movements.
December 1, 2000... A number of historians have indicated, perhaps unconsciously, that the concept of religious movement would be useful in reference to seventeenth-century English religious history. But while some have used the term "movement" in describing some...

The Prince Hall Masons and the African American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918.
December 1, 2000... During the late nineteenth century, James Walker Hood was bishop of the North Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and grand master of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Masons. In his forty-four years...

From Rechristianization to Contestation: Catholic Values and Quebec Society, 1931-1970.
December 1, 2000... I. QUEBEC CATHOLICISM, LIBERALISM, AND REVISIONISM Speaking before the Commission d'etude sur les laics et l'Eglise (Commission Dumont) in 1970, Jean-Paul Gignac articulated the feelings of many when he stated that although the church had...

The Practice of Native American Christianity.
December 1, 2000... The fields of Native American religious traditions and American religious history have reached something of a shared critical juncture.(1) Although there has been a long standing scholarly interest on writing about missions to Native Americans...

Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages.
December 1, 2000... Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. By Dyan Elliott. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xii + 300 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. In her introduction to Fragmentation and Redemption:...

Les Apologistes Chretiens et la Culture Grecque.
December 1, 2000... Les Apologistes Chretiens et la Culture Grecque. Edited by Bernard Pouderon and Joseph Dore. Theologie Historique 105. Paris: Beauchesne, 1998. xiv + 490 pp. 288 FF paper. These twenty-three essays, all in French and most written by...

Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy.
December 1, 2000... Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy. By Denise Kimber Buell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv + 221 pp. $39.50 cloth. In recent years, scholars of late antiquity have given much attention...

The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome.
December 1, 2000... The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome. By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. xvii + 199 pp. $39.95 cloth. In a letter to Paulinus of Nola, Jerome praised Lactantius's Ciceronian...

Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity.
December 1, 2000... Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity. By Lynda L. Coon. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. xxiv + 228 pp.; 5 illus. $39.95 cloth. Lynda Coon's Sacred Fictions is one of a...

The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus.
December 1, 2000... The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus. Edited by William E. Klingshirn and Mark Vessey. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,...

Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World.
December 1, 2000... Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World. By John Moorhead. The Medieval World series. Longman: London and New York, 1999. x + 235 pp. $66.95 cloth. Moorhead provides a suitable introduction to Ambrose, considering both his...

L'Eveque dans la Cite du IVe au Ve Siecle: Image et Autorite.
December 1, 2000... L'Eveque dans la Cite du IVe au Ve Siecle: Image et Autorite. Edited by Eric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome 248. Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 1998. 158 pp. n.p. This set of essays, Actes de la table...

St. Augustine and the Conversion of England.
December 1, 2000... St. Augustine and the Conversion of England. Edited by Richard Gameson. Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1999. xii+ 436 pp. $45.00 cloth. This volume contains essays first given at a 1997 convocation held at the University of Kent, Canterbury to...

Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change.
December 1, 2000... Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change. Edited by Brendan Smith. Cambridge: University Press, 1999. xvi + 283 pp. $59.95 cloth. In a collection of ten essays, the authors address ways in which the...

The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105.
December 1, 2000... The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105. By Francis Newton. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxvi + 421 pp.+ 4 plates (color), 212 plates (black and white). $175.00...

Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisee.
December 1, 2000... Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisee. By Sara Lipton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi + 241 pp. $60.00 cloth. Familiarity with such books as R. I. Moore's The Formation of...

Toleranz im Mittelalter.
December 1, 2000... Toleranz im Mittelalter. Edited by Alexander Patschovsky and Harald Zimmermann. Vortrage und Forschungen 45. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998. 413 pp. 128 DM. In the foreword to Toleranz im Mittelalter (Tolerance in the Middle...

Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
December 1, 2000... Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by Lee I. Levine. New York: Continuum, 1999. xxx + 516 pp. n.p. The present volume is a collection of thirty-three papers presented in 1996 at an...

Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art.
December 1, 2000... Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art. Edited by Colum Hourihane. Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers 3. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1999. xxvi + 314 pp. 4 color...

The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen.
December 1, 2000... The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Volume II. Translated by Joseph L. Baird and Radd K. Ehrmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi + 224 pp. $45.00 cloth. The second installment of the intended four-volume English translation...

Carmel in Medieval Catalonia.
December 1, 2000... Carmel in Medieval Catalonia. By Jill R. Webster. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, vol. 23. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xix + 200 pp. Jill Webster is an institutional historian whose scholarship has been...

Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter.
December 1, 2000... Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter. By Megan Holmes. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999 x + 301 pp. $65.00 cloth. Holmes examines the significance of the Carmelite experience of Fra Filippo on the themes of his...

The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship.
December 1, 2000... The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship. Edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998. xiv + 337 pp. $80.00 cloth. This handsomely produced and illustrated book consists of ten...

Les Papes d'Avignon et La Maison de Savoie (1309-1409).
December 1, 2000... Les Papes d'Avignon et La Maison de Savoie (1309-1409). By Bruno Galland. Collection de L'Ecole Francaise de Rome 247. Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 1998. 512 pp. 65,000 lire paper. Bruno Galland, who wrote an impressive volume on the...

Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul.
December 1, 2000... Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul. By Cathleen Medwick. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. xviii + 282 pp. $26.00 cloth. The word "amateur" originally was not used patronizingly to describe someone or something nonprofessional, but...

Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit.
December 1, 2000... Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit. Edited by Gunther Frank and Stefan Rhein. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 4. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998. 329 pp. 58 DM. These essays originated in a 1994 conference...

Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer.
December 1, 2000... Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer. By H. J. Selderhuis. Trans. John Vriend and Lyle D. Bierma. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Vol. 48. Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999. 406 pp. $45.00 cloth. ...

Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden.
December 1, 2000... Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden. By Timothy G. Fehler. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xiv + 332 pp. $86.95 cloth. Scholars have long...

The Catholic Reformation.
December 1, 2000... The Catholic Reformation. By Michael A. Mullett. New York: Routledge, 1999. xii + 258 pp. $75.00 cloth; $22.99 paper. The time seems to have arrived for syntheses of the widespread research and scholarship of the past thirty years on...

Per una banca dati delle visite pastorali itatiane: Le visite delta diocese di Trento, 1537-1940.
December 1, 2000... Per una banca dati delle visite pastorali itatiane: Le visite delta diocese di Trento, 1537-1940. Edited by Cecilia Nubola. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico 49. Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 1998. 517 pp. 70.000 L. cloth. ...

Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson by his Students.
December 1, 2000... Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson by his Students. Edited by Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xiv + 293 pp. $84.95...

The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England.
December 1, 2000... The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England. By Michael O'Connell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 198 pp. $45.00 cloth. England is not Italy. The English indulged their iconoclasts, intent on avoiding...

John Foxe: An Historical Perspective.
December 1, 2000... John Foxe: An Historical Perspective. Edited by David Loades. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xii + 256 pp. $91.95 cloth. Seven years have passed since the inception of the John Foxe Project--a long-term plan to produce a critical edition...

Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660.
December 1, 2000... Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660. By Alison Shell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 309 pp. $39.95 cloth. Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660 is...

Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1829.
December 1, 2000... Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1829. By Michael A. Mullett. Social History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xii + 236 pp. $55.00 cloth. As the title of the series indicates, this is a study in social history, in the...

Francois de Sales (1567-1622): Un homme de lettres spirituelles.
December 1, 2000... Francois de Sales (1567-1622): Un homme de lettres spirituelles. By Viviane Mellinghoff-Bourgerie. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 330. Geneva: Droz, 1999. 535 pp. n.p. Carefully researched and elegantly printed, this volume will be...

Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology: Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker.
December 1, 2000... Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology: Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker. By Bryan D. Spinks. Drew University Studies in Liturgy, no. 9. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999. xvi + 191 pp. $49.50 cloth....

History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World.
December 1, 2000... History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World. By Andres Perez de Ribas. Translated by Daniel T. Reff, Maureen Ahern, and Richard K. Danford. Annotated and with a critical introduction...

Deutsche Spataufklarung und Pietismus: Ihr Verhaltnis im Rahmen Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822).
December 1, 2000... Deutsche Spataufklarung und Pietismus: Ihr Verhaltnis im Rahmen Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822). By Hans-Martin Kirn. Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus 34. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 616 pp....

Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale.
December 1, 2000... Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale. By Laura Engelstein. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. xx + 283 pp. $35.00 cloth. Laura Engelstein has written a masterful and engaging history of the Skoptsy, the...

Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848.
December 1, 2000... Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848. By James C. Deming. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. xxii + 237 pp. $43.00 cloth. The study of national identity...

Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England.
December 1, 2000... Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. By Joss Marsh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii + 436 pages. $55.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. One staple of postmodern cultural studies involves the...

Labour, Love, and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850-1914.
December 1, 2000... Labour, Love, and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850-1914. By Andrea Ebel Brozyna. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 2. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xvi + 291 pp. $65.00 cloth. The...

The Symbols of the Church.
December 1, 2000... The Symbols of the Church. By Maurice Dilasser. Translated by Mary Cabrini Durkin, Madeleine Beaumont, and Caroline Morson. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 1999. 167 pp. $39.95 cloth Utilizing printed text and colorful illustration,...

John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750.
December 1, 2000... John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750. By Sydney V. James. Edited by Theodore Dwight Bozeman. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xiv + 202 pp. $35.00 cloth. John...

Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People.
December 1, 2000... Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People. By Thomas H. O'Connor. Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xvii + 357 pp. $28.95 cloth. Thomas O'Connor over the past three decades has written a series of works on...

Education and Transformation: Marianist Ministries in America Since 1849.
December 1, 2000... Education and Transformation: Marianist Ministries in America Since 1849. By Christopher J. Kauffman. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1999. xviii + 366 pp. $29.95 cloth. This study traces the evolution of the Marianists, a religious...

Religion and the American Civil War.
December 1, 2000... Religion and the American Civil War. Edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv + 422 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. This outstanding collection of essays about the...

The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide.
December 1, 2000... The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide. By Robert H. Krapohl and Charles H. Lippy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. xv + 336 pp. $75.00 cloth. Robert Kraphol and Charles Lippy identify at least a measure of...

"As a Thief in the Night": The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliverance.
December 1, 2000... "As a Thief in the Night": The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliverance. By Dan Erickson. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998. 278 pp. $34.95 cloth. While the story of the Mormons' tumultuous trek through American space is well known,...

New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library.
December 1, 2000... New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library. By Smith Research Associates. Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1998. n.p. The appearance of this CD-ROM testifies that Mormon studies is "alive and well" on the eve of the...

The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community: St. Augustine's in Washington.
December 1, 2000... The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community: St. Augustine's in Washington. By Morris J. MacGregor. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. xiv + 543 pp. $39.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. In 1987, Jay P. Dolan opened his...

Perspectives on the Social Gospel: Papers From the Inaugural Social Gospel Conference at Colgate Rochester Divinity School.
December 1, 2000... Perspectives on the Social Gospel: Papers From the Inaugural Social Gospel Conference at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Edited by Christopher H. Evans. Texts and Studies in the Social Gospel, Vol. 3. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edward Mellen, 1999....

The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922.
December 1, 2000... The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922. By Mark G. McGowan. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 2. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xiv + 414 pp. $49.95 cloth; $29.95...

Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan.
December 1, 2000... Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan. By Jennie Purnell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. x + 271 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Almost everyone who has studied...

Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: Local Visions and Cosmic Drama.
December 1, 2000... Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: Local Visions and Cosmic Drama. By Paolo Apolito. Translated by William A. Christian Jr. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii + 267 pp. $49.50 cloth. The...

The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals.
December 1, 2000... The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals. Edited by Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montaldo. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1999. xvii + 374 pp. $28.00 cloth. Much has been made of the irony that Thomas Merton's reputation as a...

The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
December 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edited by John W. de Gruchy. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 281 pp. $54.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. This volume is one of a series designed...

Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa.
December 1, 2000... Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa. By Linda Elaine Thomas. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xxvi + 174 pp. $29.95 cloth. The publication of Under the Canopy is indeed another...

Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994.
December 1, 2000... Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994. By Tristan Anne Borer. The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1998. xx + 289 pp. $32.00 cloth; $16.95...

Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism.
December 1, 2000... Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism. Edited by Bill J. Leonard. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxxii + 328 pp. $35.00 cloth; $17.50 paper. Stereotypes of religion in the South abound. Mention...

Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape.
December 1, 2000... Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Edited by Robert A. Orsi. Religion in North America Series. Bloomington, Ill.: Indiana University Press, 1999. xiv + 402 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. The essays collected and...

Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music.
December 1, 2000... Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music. By Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. viii + 299 pp. $29.95 cloth. For decades, H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture...