Church History articles from December 2008

Church History archives from December 2008

Evangelical secularism and the measure of Leviathan.(EXTENDED ARTICLE)(Essay)
December 1, 2008... Infidelity is a system of negations; it is nothing--believes nothing--does nothing good. --Beware of Bad Books (New York: American Tract Society, 1826) By Systems; I understand any number of men joined in one Interest or one Business....

"Read it also to the Gentiles": the displacement and recasting of the philosopher in the Vita Antonii.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... IN his correspondence with the Corinthian community, the Apostle Paul addressed the problem of factionalism, his criticism aimed particularly against a faction of educated members who regarded their knowledge as evidence of social superiority....

Redeeming free grace: Thomas Hooker and the contested language of salvation.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... IT was with a flourish of grace-borne optimism that Thomas Hooker opened his massive redaction of a career's worth of "preparationist" theology, the posthumously published Application of Redemption. The sermons in which this two-volume work...

The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the...

Colonialism, biblical world-making, and temporalities in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... THE autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) offers an unusual portrait of the dynamic relationship between scripture and colonialism. In 1789 Equiano, who also went by the name Gustavus Vassa, related his experience of slavery to support...

Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi:10.1017/S0009640708001637 Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity. By Peter Norton. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 275 pp. $99.00 cloth. Few students of...

Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001649 Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam. By Mary F. Thurlkill. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xii + 211 pp. $27.00 cloth. Crossing the...

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001650 The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. By Sidney H. Griffith. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, c. 1070-c. 1250.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi:10.1017/S0009640708001662 Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, e. 1070-c. 1250. By Julie Kerr. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 32. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2007. xii + 244 pp. $90.00 cloth. This is a...

God's War: A New History of the Crusades.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001674 God's War: A New History of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi + 1025 pp. $35.00 cloth. God's War is an ambitious undertaking,...

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/$0009640708001686 The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. By Christopher MacEvitt. The Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii + 273 pp. $49.95 cloth. Christopher...

Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001698 Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts. Edited by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. xx 492 pp. $116.00 cloth. Like...

Franciscans at Prayer.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001704 Franciscans at Prayer. Edited by Timothy J. Johnson. The Medieval Franciscans 4. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiii + 507 pp. $182.00 cloth. If one would like to study prayer as a historical concept, the major...

Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001716 Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators. By John W. Coakley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv + 357 pp. $45.00 cloth. This a book about men's worlds and...

Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1520).(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001728 Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1520). By Quereiolo Mazzonis. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xx + 251...

The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800173X The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. By Anna Ysabel d'Abrera. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. x + 245 pp. 60 [euro]. A modest contribution to the ongoing polemic about the...

Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001741 Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Polities, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640. By Michael C. Questier. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. New York: Cambridge...

Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001753 Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke. Edited by Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake. Studies in Modern British Religious History 13. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2006....

Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: l0.1017/S0009640708001765 Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609. By Keith D. Stanglin. Brill's Series in Church History 27. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xviii + 287 pp. $129.00...

The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001777 The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. By Edward Muir. The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xvi + 177...

The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607-1783.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi:l0.1017/S0009640708001789 The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607-1783. By James B. Bell. Studies in Modern History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xxvi + 301 pp. $90.00 cloth. This is a welcome and...

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001790 Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home. By Susan Hardman Moore. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. xvi + 316 pp. $35.00 cloth. The title of Susan Hardman Moore's new book, Pilgrims:...

Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001807 Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750. By Tanya Kevorkian. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xiv + 256 pp. $99.95 cloth. Early modern Leipzig is probably most widely remembered...

The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001819 The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796. By Colleen Gray. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xxxvi + 251 pp. $32.95 paper. Colleen Gray writes...

Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001820 Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707. By Jeffrey Stephen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. vii + 279 pp. $80.00 cloth. In the wake of the Revolution and the accession of William...

Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001832 Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia. By Gary Marker. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xviii + 310 pp. $42.00 cloth. In three quarters of the...

Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001844 Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834. By Emily Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. $59.95 cloth;...

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001856 Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. By Juliana Barr. Published in association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist...

William Wilberforce: A Biography.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001868 William Wilberforce: A Biography. By Stephen Tomkins. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. 238 pp. $18.00 paper. The 2007 bicentennial celebrating Britain's anti-slave trade act witnessed a spate of...

Beyond Religious Discourse: Sermons, Preaching and Evangelical Protestants in Nineteenth-Century Irish Society.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800187X Beyond Religious Discourse: Sermons, Preaching and Evangelical Protestants in Nineteenth-Century Irish Society. By J. N. Ian Dickson. Studies in Evangelical History and Thought. Milton Keynes: Paternoster,...

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001881 Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860. By Stewart Davenport. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 269 pp. $45.00 cloth. This significant,...

Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001893 Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. By Ussama Makdisi. The United States in the World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv + 265 pp. $35.00...

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800190X Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. By Joe L. Coker. Religion in the South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x + 332 pp. $50.00 cloth....

Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001911 Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. By Kristin Schwain. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xx + 175 pp. $29.95 cloth. This fascinating and richly illustrated book...

The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001923 The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations. By Markku Ruotsila. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008. x + 246 pp. $29.95 paper. ...

In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial and the Making of the Antievolution Movement.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001935 In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. By Michael Lienesch. H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...

Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001947 Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America. By John G. Turner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii + 290 pp. $19.95 paper. Who would...

Pat Robertson: An American Life.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi:10.1017/S0009640708001959 Pat Robertson: An American Life. By David John Marley. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. x + 315 pp. $26.95 cloth. A Virginia senator's blueblood son, architect of a religious broadcasting empire,...

Film and Religion: An Introduction.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001960 Film and Religion: An Introduction. By Paul V. M. Flesher and Robert Torry. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2007. xiv 306 pp. $25.50 paper. Paul V. M. Flesher and Robert Torry, a Bible scholar and an English...

Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi:10.1017/S0009640708001972 Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. By David Smilde. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xviii +264 pp. $22.95 paper. Only a sociologist will love certain...

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Recovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001984 How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Recovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity. By Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2007.xxi + 206 pp. $19.00 cloth. In his small volume,...

Christians in Egypt: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities Past and Present.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001996 Christians in Egypt: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities Past and Present. By Otto F. A. Meinardus. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006. xii + 179 pp. $24.50 cloth. The late Otto...

Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800200X Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. By Michael D. Bailey. Critical Issues in History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. x + 276 pp. $25.95 paper. With...

Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708002011 Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition. By Laura Hobgood-Oster. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv + 179 pp. $35.00 cloth. In recent years, historians, ethicists, and...

Christian Inculturation in India.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708002023 Christian Inculturation in India. By Paul M. Collins. Liturgy, Worship, and Society. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xvii + 244 pp. $99.95 cloth. A wedding necklace (thali or tali) instead of a wedding...

American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708002035 American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xx + 221 pp. $49.95 cloth. This...

Southern Missions: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708002047 Southern Missions: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective. By Charles Reagan Wilson. Edmondson Historical Lecture Series 29. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. vi + 54 pp. $13.95...

Books received.
December 1, 2008... Alexander, Dominic, Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Atherstone, Andrew, ed.,...