Church History articles from June 2000

Church History archives from June 2000

"The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time": William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher's Chronology.
June 1, 2000... In 1650 the distinguished church historian Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland announced his meticulously calculated time of the Creation: early Saturday evening, 22 October 4004 B.C.E., a date immortalized in the margins of countless Bibles for...

Biblical Interpretation and the Construction of Christian Sexualities.
June 1, 2000... The essays in this theme issue of Church History provide rich materials for contemporary scholars exploring the complex and sometimes unexpected intersections of exegesis, sexuality, gender, hierarchy, and authority in the history of...

The Virgin, the Bride, and the Church: Reading Psalm 45 in Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine.
June 1, 2000... Within the past decade or so, historical studies of early Christianity have been affected by what has been called the "linguistic turn."(1) This development has entailed a new appreciation of the varied forms of Christian "discourse" and their...

The Virile Bride of Bernard of Clairvaux.
June 1, 2000... That feminine metaphors dominate Bernard of Clairvaux's treatment of the contemplative soul who as loving Bride marries Christ in prayerful ecstasy, and as Mother nurtures the world in active service, is indisputable. And much has been made in...

The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality.
June 1, 2000... I. BEAUTIFUL BRIDES The arduous task of queering the Song of Songs,(1) a book that is ostensibly an unequivocal celebration of male-female sexual love, was accomplished over many centuries by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church (as well...

Marriage in Medieval Culture: Consent Theory and The Case of Joseph and Mary.
June 1, 2000... From the second half of the eleventh century, medieval Latin theologians and canonists wrestled with a number of questions related to sexual relations and marriage. Marriage is, characteristically, one of the avenues by which a...

Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism.
June 1, 2000... In Milton's description of the marriage of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, the entire Garden of Eden is seen to participate in the celebration of their union. Spousal and nature imagery are woven together, beauty and desire joined in the mystery...

Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals.
June 1, 2000... Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals. By Andrew McGowan. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 312 pp. $80.00 cloth. Ascetic Eucharists examines the diversity of foods...

The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction.
June 1, 2000... The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction. By M. P. Weitzman. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvi + 355 pp. $79.95 cloth. This is a most timely and welcome...

Nova et vetera: Patristic Studies in Honor of Thomas Patrick Halton.
June 1, 2000... Nova et vetera: Patristic Studies in Honor of Thomas Patrick Halton. Edited by John Petruccione. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xxxviii + 282 pp. $54.95 cloth. This volume is perhaps unique among festschriften...

Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt.
June 1, 2000... Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt. Edited by David Frankfurter. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 134. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xiv + 516 pp. n.p. cloth. This volume of essays by Egyptologists, Coptologists, classicists, and...

Iberian Fathers, vol. 3, Pacian of Barcelona, Orosius of Braga.
June 1, 2000... Iberian Fathers, vol. 3, Pacian of Barcelona, Orosius of Braga. Edited and translated by Craig L. Hanson. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation 99. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. x + 192 pp. n.p. cloth. ...

Pilgrim Stories On and Off the Road to Santiago.
June 1, 2000... Pilgrim Stories On and Off the Road to Santiago. By Nancy Louise Frey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi + 313 pp. $45.00 cloth. Sometime early in the ninth century--historical tradition suggests about the year 813--a...

Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.
June 1, 2000... Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. By Kenneth Levy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x + 271 pp. $49.50 cloth. The standard history of Carolingian liturgical reform usually begins in 754, when Pope Stephen II traveled to the...

Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop.
June 1, 2000... Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop. By Margaret Mullett. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 2. Aldershot, U.K.: Variorum, 1997. xx + 441 pp. $84.95 cloth. Although the art of letter writing was a...

Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia.
June 1, 2000... Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia. By James William Brodman. The Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xvi + 232 pp. $39.95 cloth. Some subjects tend to come in tidier historical...

Medieval Iconography: A Research Guide.
June 1, 2000... Medieval Iconography: A Research Guide. By John B. Friedman and Jessica M. Wegmann. Garland Medieval Bibliographies. New York: Garland, 1998. xxvi + 444 pp. $95.00 cloth. This latest volume in the Garland Medieval Bibliographies series...

Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England.
June 1, 2000... Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England. By Ben Nilson. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 1998. 276 pp. $72.00 cloth. Shrines dedicated to the veneration of saints formed an important aspect of the life of the medieval English cathedrals. The most...

Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism.
June 1, 2000... Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism. By Catherine Brown. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xviii + 209 pp. $45.00 cloth. In this volume, Brown examines the role of...

Umbilicus Mundi: Beitrage zur Geschichte Jerusalems, der Kreuzzuge, des Kapitels vom Hlg. Grab in Jerusalem under der Ritterorden.
June 1, 2000... Umbilicus Mundi: Beitrage zur Geschichte Jerusalems, der Kreuzzuge, des Kapitels vom Hlg. Grab in Jerusalem under der Ritterorden. By Kaspar Elm. Instrumenta Canonissarum Regularium Sancti Sepulcri 6. Sint-Kruis: Sint-Trudo-Abdij, 1998. iv +...

Medieval Monastic Preaching.
June 1, 2000... Medieval Monastic Preaching. Edited by Carolyn Muessig. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 90. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xv + 367 pp. n.p. As the editor of these papers rightly remarks, preaching by and to members of monastic communities...

Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers.
June 1, 2000... Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers. Edited by Kent Emery Jr. and Joseph Wawrykow. Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies 7. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame...

Clement V.
June 1, 2000... Clement V. By Sophia Menache. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, ser. 4, 36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 351 pp. $69.95 cloth. Few popes of the late Middle Ages have been the object of more opprobrium...

The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson.
June 1, 2000... The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson. By John J. Ryan. American Academy of Religion, The Religions 4. Atlanta: Scholars, 1998.96 pp. $24.95 cloth. Forty-five years after the publication of Brian Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar...

Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education.
June 1, 2000... Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education. Edited by Sachiko Kusukawa. Translated by Christine F. Salazar. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xliii + 272 pp. $59.95 cloth;...

Theologie der Bekenntnisschriften der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche: Eine historische und systematische Einfuhrung in das Konkordienbuch.
June 1, 2000... Theologie der Bekenntnisschriften der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche: Eine historische und systematische Einfuhrung in das Konkordienbuch. By Gunther Wenz. 2 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996-98. 720 and 816 pp. DM 108 cloth; DM 68 paper...

Peace in the Post-Reformation: The Birkbeck Lectures, 1995.
June 1, 2000... Peace in the Post-Reformation: The Birkbeck Lectures, 1995. By John Bossy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. iii + 105 pages. $49.95 cloth; $14.95 paper. These published lectures by the professor of history at the University of...

A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier.
June 1, 2000... A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier. By Robert Rapley. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. ix + 277 pp. $29.95 cloth. Research on the history of European witchcraft, if no longer the growth industry it was a...

"Wicked Arts": Witchcraft and Magic Trials in Southern Sweden, 1635-1754.
June 1, 2000... "Wicked Arts": Witchcraft and Magic Trials in Southern Sweden, 1635-1754. By Per Sorlin. Cultures, Beliefs, and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples 7. Leiden: Brill, 1999. viii + 239 pp. n.p. Research on the history of European...

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France.
June 1, 2000... Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. By John McManners. 2 vols. The Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. This magisterial, synthetic, and exceptionally readable inquiry into the Christian church and...

Vol. 1: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications.
June 1, 2000... Vol. 1: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications. xviii + 817 pp. $155.00 cloth. This magisterial, synthetic, and exceptionally readable inquiry into the Christian church and French society during the eighteenth century is...

Vol. 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion.
June 1, 2000... Vol. 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion. xiv + 866 pp. $155.00 cloth. This magisterial, synthetic, and exceptionally readable inquiry into the Christian church and French society during the eighteenth century is at...

Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690.
June 1, 2000... Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690. By Daniel C. Beaver. Harvard Historical Studies 129. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii + 462 pp. $49.50 cloth. This study of religious...

Kingship and the Commonweal: Political Thought in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland.
June 1, 2000... Kingship and the Commonweal: Political Thought in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. By Roger A. Mason. East Lothian, U.K.: Tuckwell, 1998. x + 278 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. Roger Mason declares in his introduction his goal to...

Milton and Heresy.
June 1, 2000... Milton and Heresy. Edited by Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x + 272 pp. $59.95 cloth. The editors of this splendid collection of twelve essays assert that modern scholars seeking to...

Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775.
June 1, 2000... Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775. By Rebecca Larson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. xii + 399 pp. $35.00 cloth. In nineteenth-century America four of the five women who...

Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England.
June 1, 2000... Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England. By Charles P. Hanson. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1998. x + 278 pp. $35.00 cloth. Hanson (of the Collegio dell'Adriatico in Trieste, Italy)...

An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880.
June 1, 2000... An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880. By Paul C. Gutjahr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xxi + 256 pp. $39.50 cloth. At one point in Herman Melville's Confidence-Man (1857) an old man...

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt.
June 1, 2000... Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. By Christine Leigh Heyrman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 336 pp. $16.95 paper. Southern Cross is a beautifully written, meticulously researched, lavishly...

Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South.
June 1, 2000... Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 305 pp. $34.95 cloth. Most studies of slavery written since the early 1970s acknowledge the...

Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate.
June 1, 2000... Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate. By Hugh B. Davis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvi + 293 pp. $60.00 cloth. Leonard Bacon (1802-81) is today relatively unknown even among historians of...

Leaving Anabaptism: From Evangelical Mennonite Brethren to Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches.
June 1, 2000... Leaving Anabaptism: From Evangelical Mennonite Brethren to Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches. By Calvin W. Redekop. Telford, Pa.: Pandora Press, 1998. 268 pp. $19.99 paper. About a hundred years after arriving in the United States,...

The Totalitarian Kingdom of God: The Political Philosophy of E. Stanley Jones.
June 1, 2000... The Totalitarian Kingdom of God: The Political Philosophy of E. Stanley Jones. By Stephen A. Graham. Lanham, N.Y.: University Press of America, 1998. vii + 173 pp. $37.00 cloth.. Eli Stanley Jones cut a wide figure across the Christian...

Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928.
June 1, 2000... Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928. By P. C. Kemeny. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x + 353 pp. $45.00. Over the years the role of religion in American higher education has...

Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism.
June 1, 2000... Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism. Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv + 273 pp. $42.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. This collection of twelve...

Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective.
June 1, 2000... Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective. Edited by David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, and Mark Noll. Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi + 351 pp. $45.00 cloth. This outstanding collection of essays...

History and the Christian Historian.
June 1, 2000... History and the Christian Historian. Edited by Ronald A. Wells. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. vi + 248 pp. $23.00 paper. Ronald Wells, professor of history at Calvin College, has long been one of the leaders among Christian...

Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History.
June 1, 2000... Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History. Edited by Thomas A. Tweed and Stephen Prothero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 416 pp. n.p. Collections of documents appear regularly from publishers, but few represent a...

Story of a Storm: The Ecumenical Student Movement in the Turmoil of Revolution, 1968 to 1973.
June 1, 2000... Story of a Storm: The Ecumenical Student Movement in the Turmoil of Revolution, 1968 to 1973. By Risto Lehtonen. Publications of the Finnish Society of Church History 174. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xxiv + 360 pp. $20.00 paper. ...

The Moravians, the Miskitu, and the Sandinistas on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, 1979-1990.
June 1, 2000... The Moravians, the Miskitu, and the Sandinistas on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, 1979-1990. By C. Alton Robertson. Bethlehem, Pa.: Board of Communications, Moravian Church in America, 1998. viii + 88 pp. $16.00 cloth. There are two reasons...

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY.
June 1, 2000... 6 January 2000 A meeting of the American Society of Church History was called to order at 4:15 p.m. on 6 January 2000 by President Ronald L. Numbers in the Streeterville Room of the Chicago Marriott Downtown Hotel in Chicago, Ill. ...