Church History articles from December 2001

Church History archives from December 2001

"Taste and See": the Eucharist and the eyes of faith in the fourth century.
December 1, 2001... Whenever Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, stood before newly baptized Christians on Easter week, his task seemed straightforward: to explain the meaning of the initiations they had recently undergone. His explanations, however, were peppered with...

From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: "discipline" and reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
December 1, 2001... Already famous for his best-selling books on Christian devotion and increasingly infamous for his attempts at a theological synthesis of Calvinist and Arminian perspectives on salvation--which (no surprise) pleased hardly anyone--Richard Baxter...

Old age and religion in the writings and life of Jonathan Edwards.
December 1, 2001... In his Faithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God, an account of the awakening of 1734-35 in his church at Northampton, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards excitedly reported a considerable number of old persons among the several hundred...

The cross: church symbol and contest in nineteenth-century America.
December 1, 2001... In 1834 the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey desired to place a cross atop his newly-refurbished sanctuary. No ordinary rector, George Washington Doane also served as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey. Shortly...

Redeemed bodies: the functions of divine healing in incipient Pentecostalism.
December 1, 2001... Pentecostalism originated in the body as much as the spirit. The "full gospel" it proclaimed promised renewed health along with saved souls, and its embryonic ethos prized the human embodiment of divine initiative. Glossolalia and other...

Early Christian Traditions. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Early Christian Traditions. By Rebecca Lyman. The New Church's Teaching Series. Vol. 6. Boston, Mass.: Cowley, 1999. xiii + 178 pp. $11.95 paper. This series of studies has as its general purpose to "explore the themes of the Christian...

Apologetics in the Roman Empire. Pagans, Jews and Christians. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Apologetics in the Roman Empire. Pagans, Jews and Christians. Edited by Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, and Simon Price in association with Christopher Rowland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 215 pp. $82.00 cloth. Apologetics as...

Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. Edited by Richard Valantasis. Princeton Readings in Religion Series number 7. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi + 527 pp. $67.50 cloth; $22.95 paper. Religions of Late Antiquity...

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. Edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 298 pp. $74.00 cloth; $59.20 paper....

Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St. Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St. Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond. By N. Joseph Torchia, O. P. American University Studies Series 7 (Theology and Religion). Vol. 205. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. xxvii + 279 pp. $49.95...

The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. (Book Reviews And Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. By Georgia Frank. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 219 pp. $40.00 cloth. Pilgrims in the fourth and fifth century were just as interested in...

Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-first Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-first Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997. Edited by Liz James. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications 6. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1999. xii...

Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul. By Isabel Moreira. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv + 262 pp. $49.95 cloth. Isabel Moreira traces the development of visionary literature preserved in Merovingian...

The Saints of Cornwall. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Saints of Cornwall. By Nicholas Orme. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 302 pp. $95.00 cloth. The Cornish saints Ildiem, Issey, Senar, and Veep are so shrouded in obscurity that no one knows for sure if they were male or...

Rochester Cathedral 604-1540: An Architectural History. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Rochester Cathedral 604-1540: An Architectural History. By J. Philip McAleer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xxiv + 314 pp. $70.00 cloth. Although Rochester cathedral was, like its diocese, the smallest and least grand in the...

Bernard of Clairvaux. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Bernard of Clairvaux. By G. R. Evans. Great Medieval Thinkers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 220 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. This series from Oxford University Press intends to present medieval thinkers to an audience...

God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. By Robert Chazan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. xi + 270 pp. $40.00 cloth. Robert Chazan provides readers with a meticulous analysis of the...

The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe. By Constance Hoffman Berman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xxiv + 382 pp. $59.95 cloth. Into the sometimes stodgy world of...

Original Papal Documents in England and Wales from the Accession of Pope Innocent III to the Death of Pope Benedict (1198-1304). (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Original Papal Documents in England and Wales from the Accession of Pope Innocent III to the Death of Pope Benedict (1198-1304). By Jane E. Sayers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. cxvi + 678 pp. $210.00 cloth. This exhaustive...

Urban V (1362-1370): Kirchenreform zwischen Kardinalkollegium, Kurie und Klientel. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Urban V (1362-1370): Kirchenreform zwischen Kardinalkollegium, Kurie und Klientel. By Ludwig Vones. Papste und Papsttum 28. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1998. xii + 719 pp. DM340 cloth. This Habilitationsschrift exhibits the positive and...

The Imaginative World of the Reformation. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Imaginative World of the Reformation. By Peter Matheson. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000. xiv + 153 pp. $24.95 paper. This book is based on the Gunning Lectures delivered by the author at Edinburgh in 1998. In those lectures Matheson...

Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy. By Patrick Macey. Oxford Monograph on Music. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xx + 359 pp. + compact disc. $60.00 cloth. The extraordinary surge of popular devotion in late medieval Italy has been the...

Constraint on Trial: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Religious Freedom. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Constraint on Trial: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Religious Freedom. By Gerrit Voogt. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 52. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2000. vi + 268 pp. $30.00 paper. "`Only God has the right to be...

The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500-1760: From Solid Heavens to Boundless Aether. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500-1760: From Solid Heavens to Boundless Aether. By W. G. L. Randles. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. xvi + 274 pp. $86.95 cloth. Late-medieval attempts to synthesize Christianity and Greek...

Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. By Mark E. Dever. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. xiv + 269 pp. $19.95 paper. Despite the renaissance in puritan studies, it is still rare to...

The English Plainchant Revival. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The English Plainchant Revival. By Bennett Zon. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiii + 410 pp. $95.00 cloth. This work is a broad examination of the musical sources associated with the...

Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain: 1830-1910. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain: 1830-1910. By Nigel Yates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv + 455. $99.00 cloth. The author notes in his preface that this work has been nearly three decades in the making and that he...

Ruskin's God. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Ruskin's God. By Michael Wheeler. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 302 pp. $64.95 cloth. The odyssey of John Ruskin's spiritual pilgrimage has often...

The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. By Oliver P. Rafferty. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xviii + 229 pp. $69.95 cloth. Since the seventeenth century, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has been of two minds regarding...

The Holocaust and the Christian World: Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Holocaust and the Christian World: Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future. Edited by Carol Rittner, Stephen D. Smith, and Irena Steinfeldt. New York: Continuum, 2000. viii + 281 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. The purpose...

The Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century: Renewing and Reimaging the City of God. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century: Renewing and Reimaging the City of God. Edited by John Deedy. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 2000. xvi + 244 pp. $24.95 paper. This book is not a systematic history of Roman Catholicism in the...

The Story of Christian Spirituality. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Story of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Gordon Mursell. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001. 384 pp. $35.00 cloth. Nine authors, under the general editorship of Gordon Mursell, have surveyed the history of Christian spirituality from its...

At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia. By Georg B. Michels. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xii + 354 pp. $60.00 cloth. In the mid-seventeenth century, some 140 years after Luther's protest...

A History of the Church in Africa. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... A History of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xx + 1232 pp. $140.00 cloth. This comprehensive work on African church history was initiated by Bengt Sundkler, a...

Church and State in Tanzania: Aspects of a Changing Relationship, 1961-1994. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Church and State in Tanzania: Aspects of a Changing Relationship, 1961-1994. By Frieder Ludwig. Studies of Religion in Africa XXI. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xiv + 285. $95.00 cloth. Frieder Ludwig's book Church and State in Tanzania seeks to...

Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 336 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Young's primary interest is the...

Horace Bushnell on Christian Character Development. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Horace Bushnell on Christian Character Development. By Lee J. Makowski. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999. 216 pp. $52.00 cloth; $31.50 paper. Horace Bushnell is a multi-faceted figure who can be studied from a variety of...

This Train Bound For Glory: The Story of America's Chapel Cars. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... This Train Bound For Glory: The Story of America's Chapel Cars. By Wilma Rugh Taylor and Norman Thomas Taylor. Valley Forge, Penn.: Judson Press, 1999. xiv + 382 pp. $45.00 cloth. Wilma and Norman Taylor offer a popular history of railroad...

Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion. By Michael D. McNally. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvi + 248 pp. $45.00 cloth. With this account of Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) hymn singing in Minnesota during the...

Mormons in America. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Mormons in America. By Claudia Lauper Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 144 pp. $24.00 cloth. Richard and Claudia Bushman bring to the Oxford series on Religion in American Life a superior knowledge...

The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism. By James K. Wellman, Jr. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xvi + 257 pp. $49.95 cloth; $21.95 paper. James Wellman's study of Chicago's Fourth...

Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church. By John F. Piper, Jr. Louisville, Ky.: Geneva Press, 2000. xxii + 538 pp. n.p. The publication of John Piper's biography of Robert E. Speer restores the Presbyterian mission leader,...

In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible. By Peter J. Thuesen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 238 pp. $27.50 cloth. Observers of denominational controversies within American...

What's Left? Liberal American Catholics. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... What's Left? Liberal American Catholics. Edited by Mary Jo Weaver. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. xviii + 294 pp. $18.95 paper. What's Left? Liberal American Catholics, a collection of essays edited by Mary Jo Weaver,...

Thrice Born: The Rhetorical Comeback of Jimmy Swaggart. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Thrice Born: The Rhetorical Comeback of Jimmy Swaggart. By Michael J. Giuliano. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1999. viii + 152 pp. $29.95 cloth. This small book examines Jimmy Swaggart's rhetorical efforts to rescue his ministry...

Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want. (Book Reviews and Notes).
December 1, 2001... Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want. By Christian Smith. Berkeley: University of California, 2000. x + 257 pp. $27.50 cloth. Chris Smith has dominated the sociology-of-American-evangelicalism scene recently with, first, his...

Minutes of the Council of the American Society of Church History. (Society Notices).
December 1, 2001... The Council of the American Society of Church History convened at 3:00 p.m., on 29 March 2001, in the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, called to order by President Amanda Porterfield. Council voted the...