Church History articles from December 2004

Church History archives from December 2004

Preface.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... This issue marks the relocation of the journal from Duke University to Florida State University, and it inaugurates the term of the new editors, John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield. We are, first of all, grateful to the editors at Duke for...

The white crown of works: Cyprian's early pastoral ministry of almsgiving in Carthage (1).
December 1, 2004... In a letter from Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the middle of the third century, written while he was in hiding during the Decian persecution to the imprisoned confessors in Carthage, there is mention of two crowns, two colors and two flowers....

Medicine and moral reform: the place of practical piety in John Wesley's art of physic.
December 1, 2004... It was the Primitive Christians of the "purest ages" who inspired and encouraged the Methodist leader, John Wesley, to create a movement based on his vision of the ancient Church. Wesley was convinced that Methodist doctrine, discipline, and...

Reversing the curse: agricultural millennialism at the Illinois Industrial University (1).
December 1, 2004... In the spring of 1868, sixty-eight students gathered to become the first matriculants of the Illinois Industrial University. They had responded to a summons by the state legislature to engage in a bold new mission of publicly funded mechanical...

The 1904-05 Welsh revival: modernization, technologies, and techniques of the self.
December 1, 2004... I. ON A CUSP IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Surveying the short history of pentecostalism in 1925, Frank Bartelman--a consummate "insider historian'--reckoned that although the Azusa Street revival had become "full grown" in Los Angeles,...

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. By David L. Chappell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 344 pp. $34.95 paper. Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Inequality from Jim Crow to the...

The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. By Michele Renee Salzman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 354 pp. $49.95 cloth. In 1961, Peter Brown put his finger on a...

Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. By Philip A. Harland. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2003. xvi + 399 pp. $ 22.00 paper. Many of us as historians were educated primarily in the...

A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. By Mary F. Foskett. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. $35.00 cloth. This volume's title hints at its focus on ancient readers' "conceptions" of the...

And Then the End Will Come: Early Latin Christian Interpretations of the Opening of the Seven Seals.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... And Then the End Will Come: Early Latin Christian Interpretations of the Opening of the Seven Seals. By Douglas W. Lumsden. New York: Garland, 2001. xii + 112 pp. $85.95 cloth. Lumsden discusses Latin Christian interpretation of the opening...

The Sex Lives of Saints: an Erotics of Ancient Hagiography.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. By Virginia Burrus. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. vi + 216 pp. $42.50 cloth. Working through The Sex Lives...

Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages.(Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages. A Sourcebook. Edited by Conor McCarthy. London: Routledge, 2004. xii + 292 pp. $24.95 cloth; $12.95 paper. Teachers of literature or history may find this anthology useful for introducing...

Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office. By Pope Innocent III. Translated with an introduction by Corinne J. Vause and Frank C. Gardiner. Medieval texts in Translation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press,...

The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered. By Kenneth Baxter Wolf. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 165 pp. $39.95 cloth. Baxter Wolf's study looks critically at the nature of...

The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era. By Celia Chazelle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 358 pp. $70.00 cloth. Chazelle proposes to examine Carolingian thought, taken in its broadest sense, on the meaning of Christ's...

Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah. By Peter Schafer. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. xviii + 306 pp. $29.95...

Remains of the Jews: the Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. By Andrew S. Jacobs. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv + 249 pp. $55.00 cloth. In this revised version of his doctoral dissertation (Duke,...

The Blickling Homilies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Blickling Homilies. Edited and translated by Richard J. Kelly. London: Continuum, 2003. lx + 233 pp. $85.00 cloth. A considerable body of homiletical texts in Old English--by far the largest vernacular collection of preaching materials...

The Experience of Crusading, Volume 2: Defining the Crusader Kingdom.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Experience of Crusading, Volume 2: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. Edited by Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 311 pp. $65.00 cloth. To a graduate student forty to fifty years ago,...

Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500. By Kathleen Karnerick. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xii + 292 pp. $65.00 cloth. Recently, a story has been circulating to the effect that when Jim...

Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland: 1400-1600.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland: 1400-1600. By Helmut Puff. The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 311 pp. $24.00 paper. In a flood of studies in the history...

Luther on Women: a Sourcebook.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Luther on Women: A Sourcebook. Edited and translated by Susan C. Karant-Nunn and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 246 pp. $58.00 cloth; $21.00 paper. What a welcome addition to Luther source...

The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany. By Ronald K. Rittgers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 318 pp. $49.95 cloth. Ronald K. Rittgers has written a...

Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza (1519-1605).(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza (1519-1605). By Jeffrey Mallinson. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 268 pp. $80.00 cloth. Jeffrey Mallinson is a thorough scholar with an excellent grasp of...

The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace. By Brian Cummings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii + 470 pp. $95.00 cloth. This compendious work weaves examinations of a variety of Reformation texts from the...

Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. By Peter Marshall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 344 pp. $74.00 cloth. This is an excellent study of change in English society's beliefs and practices related to the dead during...

The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich. By Muriel C. McClendon. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xviii + 340 pp. $55.00 cloth. Christianity is far more than a discipline best...

Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. By Anthony W. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 258 pp. $26.00 cloth. The thesis and detailed arguments of this book will be of interest to readers of this journal...

An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657-1727.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657-1727. By William E. Burns. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2002. x + 228 pp. $74.95 cloth. Alexandra Walsham, whose commendation graces the cover of this...

Nation and Word, 1770-1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Nation and Word, 1770-1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness. By Mary Anne Perkins. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. xx + 370 pp. $86.95 cloth. In the two decades since Benedict Anderson's...

The Church of England in Industrialising Society: the Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Church of England in Industrialising Society: The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century. By M. F. Snape. Studies in Modern British Religious History. London: Boydell, 2003. xii + 228 pp. 585.00 cloth. Based on Snape's...

High Calvinists in Action. Calvinism and the City. Manchester and London, c. 1810-1860.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... High Calvinists in Action. Calvinism and the City. Manchester and London, c. 1810-1860. By Ian J. Shaw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 413 pp. $80.00 cloth. Presently a Lecturer at International Christian College, Glasgow, Ian...

The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914. Edited and introduction by Andrew Porter. Studies in the History of Christian Missions, R. E. Frykenberg and Brian Stanley, general editors. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B....

Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity: 1689-1920.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity: 1689-1920. By Alan P. F. Sell. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2004. 296 pp. 50.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. The history of textbooks is messy business but can reveal much about the intellectual commitments...

The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion. By Harvey Hill. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002. x + 227 pp. $59.95 cloth. This volume provides an excellent, succinct...

Occupy until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Occupy until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World. By Dana L. Robert. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. ix + 322 pp. $32.00 (22.99 [pounds sterling]) paper. Arthur Tappan...

Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary. By Sarah Jane Boss. London: Cassell, 2000. x + 253 pp. $24.95 paper; $57.95 cloth. This book charts a variety of major changes in Marian devotion within Western...

Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue: An Evangelical Assessment.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue: An Evangelical Assessment. By Anthony N. S. Lane. London: T and T Clark, 2002. x + 272 pp. $24.95 paper. In approaching the Catholic-Protestant controversy over justification, Anthony...

Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: a Primer for Suspicious Protestants.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants. By D. H. Williams. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. x + 243 pp. $18.00 paper. The Free Church and the Early Church: Bridging the...

All Things Human: Henry Codman Potter and the Social Gospel in the Episcopal Church.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... All Things Human: Henry Codman Potter and the Social Gospel in the Episcopal Church. By Michael Bourgeois. Studies in Anglican History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 288 pp. $34.95 cloth. All Things Human focuses on the life...

Authority and Reform: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth-Century New England Literature.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Authority and Reform: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth-Century New England Literature. By Mark G. Vasquez. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xxii + 394 pp. $38.00 cloth. With what authority and approach does...

Serving Two Masters: the Development of the American Military Chaplaincy 1860-1920.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Serving Two Masters: The Development of the American Military Chaplaincy 1860-1920. By Richard Budd. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xii + 183 pp. $45.00 cloth. In a country that values religious pluralism and the separation of...

Separation of Church and State.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Separation of Church and State. By Philip Hamburger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 514 pp. $49.95 cloth. In the days before antismoking sentiment swept America, Sidney Mead once commented that books are like...

Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. By Bonnie Sue Lewis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xx + 281 pp. $34.95 cloth. Studies of world Christianity, missiology, and the cultural embodiment of...

Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham. By D. G. Hart. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2004. 224 pp. $21.95 cloth. With bold arguments Hart maintains, "Evangelicalism needs to be...

For the Glory of God. How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... For the Glory of God. How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery. By Rodney Stark. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. x + 496 pp. $35.00 cloth. Historians of Christianity will enjoy this...

Religion in America: European and American Perspectives.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Religion in America. European and American Perspectives. Edited by Hans Krabbendam and Derek Rubin. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004. 306 pp. 34.90 [euro] cloth. This is a book containing two dozen essays on various aspects of...

New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America. Edited by R. Drew Smith. The Public Influences of African American Churches, Vol. 1. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 310 pp. $29.95 cloth....

O God of Players: the Stored of the Immaculata Mighty Macs.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... O God of Players: The Stored of the Immaculata Mighty Macs. By Julie Byrne. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xx + 291 pp. $22.50 paper. Tiny, threadbare Immaculata College, a Catholic school in Malvern, Pennsylvania, won the...

Rise Up, O Men of God: The "Men and Religion Forward Movement" and the "Promise Keepers".(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Rise Up, O Men of God: The "Men and Religion Forward Movement" and the "Promise Keepers." By L. Dean Allen. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. ix + 312 pp. $45.00 cloth; $20.00 paper. Allen's revised dissertation compares the two...

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. By Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ix + 212 pp. $25.00 cloth. Michael Emerson and Christian Smith have written a...

The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life. Edited by Christian Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 494 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Christian Smith and...

The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music. By Craig Wright. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix + 351 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. In this engaging and informative book Craig Wright...

In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. By Susan Billington Harper. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000. xxii + 462 pp. $45.00 cloth....

Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Edited by Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002. x + 241 pp. $35.00 paper. This...

Protestantism and Politics in Korea.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Protestantism and Politics in Korea. By Chung-shin Park. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xii + 316 pp. $50.00 cloth. Korean Protestantism should be an important research subject for world church history for several reasons:...