Church History articles from June 2001

Church History archives from June 2001

A Tale of Two Leaders: German Methodists and the Nazi State.
June 1, 2001... Nazi foreign policy was hampered from the start by a hostile foreign press that carried alarming reports, not only of atrocities and persecution of the political opposition and of Jews, but also of a persecution of Christians in Germany....

Introduction.
June 1, 2001... Our understanding of the types and meaningful levels of resistance to Hitler's rule has broadened as more complex and reflective studies(1) have unremittingly exposed the political, social, and cultural dynamics supporting the Holocaust and its...

German Military Chaplains in World War II and the Dilemmas of Legitimacy.
June 1, 2001... In his memoir, German chaplain Hans Leonhard describes a visit to a military hospital during World War II. Leonhard entered a ward full of men with sexually transmitted diseases. "So you're a pastor?" one patient jeered. "We don't need one of...

Last Years of a Resister in the Diocese of Berlin: Bernhard Lichtenberg's Conflict with Karl Adam and his Fateful Imprisonment.
June 1, 2001... Among the priests of the diocese of Berlin who lived and served as parish ministers during the Third Reich, one individual stands out for his courage and willingness to risk his life and speak the Christian truth in a world often devoid of any...

Racial Values vs. Religious Values: Clerical Opposition to Nazi Anti-Polish Racial Policy.
June 1, 2001... Hitler's wars for living space sent millions of Germans abroad and aggravated a severe labor shortage at home. German authorities recruited or forcibly transported up to seven million foreign workers to the Reich from 1939 to 1945. A great many...

Propaganda, Perseverance, and Protest: Strategies for Clerical Survival Amid the German Church Struggle.
June 1, 2001... The Protestant historiography of the German Church Struggle has been shaped largely by its attention to two fundamental issues. The first has been the intrachurch struggle dominated by two church-political factions: the Faith Movement of the...

Questions about Catholic Resistance.
June 1, 2001... After the war was over leading Catholic laity and the lower clergy pointed their finger at their bishops, faulting them for not having the backbone and willpower to stand up to Hitler. Was this fair? Bishops said they tempered their criticism...

Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World.
June 1, 2001... Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. xviii + 780 pp. $49.95 cloth. The half millennium or so of late...

Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah.
June 1, 2001... Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah. By Michael J. Hollerich. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. xi + 230 pp. n.p. This book on the oldest extant Christian commentary on Isaiah has two purposes. First it aims...

History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine's City of God.
June 1, 2001... History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine's City of God. Edited by Mark Vessey, Karla Pollmann, and Allan D. Fitzgerald. Proceedings of a colloquium held at Green College, University of British Columbia, 18-20...

The Life of Patriarch Tarasios.
June 1, 2001... The Life of Patriarch Tarasios. By Ignatios the Deacon. Introduction, text, translation, and commentary by Stephanos Efthymiadis. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 4. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Variorum, 1998. xxiv + 309 pp. $78.95...

The Early Humiliati.
June 1, 2001... The Early Humiliati. By Frances Andrews. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series 43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 353 pp. $69.95 cloth. Frances Andrews, lecturer in medieval history at the...

A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria.
June 1, 2001... A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria. By N. J. G. Pounds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxvi + 593 pp. $95.00 cloth, $39.95 paper. The subtitle of this sumptuously produced...

Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation, Vol. 2: 1066-1384.
June 1, 2001... Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation, Vol. 2: 1066-1384. By Kenneth Hylson-Smith. Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation. London: SCM, 2000. xiv + 338 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling] paper. Drawing...

Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams.
June 1, 2001... Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams. By Ian Bradley. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. x + 246 pp. $45.00 cloth. A quick glance over the shelves of any music shop or bookstore--religious or general--gives ample evidence of the...

The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.
June 1, 2001... The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. By Katherine Ludwig Jansen. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi + 389 pp., 50 illustrations. $39.50 cloth. This fascinating study...

The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method From Erasmus to Gibbon.
June 1, 2001... The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method From Erasmus to Gibbon. By Joseph M. Levine. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii + 249 pp. $27.50 paper. In this collection of learned essays (four of them new, five reprints)...

Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620.
June 1, 2001... Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620. By Robert Kolb. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999. 278 pp. $21.99 paper. In the past twenty...

Les femmes dans la correspondance de Luther.
June 1, 2001... Les femmes dans la correspondance de Luther. By Matthieu Arnold. Etudes d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 78. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. vi + 126 pp. Fr 98.00 paper. In 1996 Matthieu Arnold published a...

Katharina Schutz Zell, Vol. 1: The Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-Century Reformer.
June 1, 2001... Katharina Schutz Zell, Vol. 1: The Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-Century Reformer. By Elsie Anne McKee. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xxi + 306 pp. n. p. Katharina Zell's life and writings have been well known for some time not only to...

Katharina Schutz Zell, Vol. 2: The Writings: A Critical Edition.
June 1, 2001... Katharina Schutz Zell, Vol. 2: The Writings: A Critical Edition. Edited by Elsie Anne McKee. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xxi + 403 pp. n.p. Katharina Zell's life and writings have been well known for some time not only to specialists in...

Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630.
June 1, 2001... Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630. By Ann W. Ramsey. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1999. xiv + 447 pp. $99.00 cloth. This book had its origins in the...

The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492-1962.
June 1, 2001... The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492-1962. By Arthur Charles Dayfoot. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1999. xviii + 360 pp. $49.95 cloth. Arthur Charles Dayfoot argues that one Christian impulse has driven the West...

Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750.
June 1, 2001... Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750. By Ralph Houlbrooke. Oxford Studies in Social History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xv + 435 pp. $99.00 cloth. One can learn a great deal from this work about English attitudes toward...

Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture.
June 1, 2001... Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. By Frances E. Dolan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xiv + 231 pp. $39.95 cloth. This work is a stimulating exploration of the intersection of...

Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain.
June 1, 2001... Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain. By G. R. Searle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xv + 300 pp. $85.00 cloth. Geoffrey Searle begins his study of the ethics of free-market ideology in Victorian Britain with a few choice...

The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England, c. 1800-1870.
June 1, 2001... The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England, c. 1800-1870. By Arthur Burns. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. xiv + 344 pp. $82.00 cloth. "This book demonstrates how... the dioceses of the Church of England...

The Genesis of Methodism.
June 1, 2001... The Genesis of Methodism. By Frederick Dreyer. Cranbury, N.J.: Lehigh University Press, 1999. 138 pp. $32.50 cloth. The author's thesis may be summed up in these two statements: "In its [Methodism's] pedigree it owes nothing to High...

God, Britain, and Hitler in World War II: The View of the British Clergy, 1939-1945.
June 1, 2001... God, Britain, and Hitler in World War II: The View of the British Clergy, 1939-1945. By A. J. Hoover. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. xiv + 148 pp. $55.00 cloth. A. J. Hoover's short book describes the views of British clergymen,...

Catholics in England: 1950-2000.
June 1, 2001... Catholics in England: 1950-2000. Edited by Michael P. Hornsby-Smith. New York: Continuum, 1999. xix + 334 pp. $28.95 paper. Hornsby-Smith has written, edited, and published books about periods and problems of Roman Catholicism in England...

The Other Side of Joy: Religious Melancholy Among the Bruderhof.
June 1, 2001... The Other Side of Joy: Religious Melancholy Among the Bruderhof. By Julius H. Rubin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 264 pp. $45.00 cloth. This fascinating volume focuses--sociologically, psychologically, historically and...

Politica, cultura y sociedad en la Espana de Franco, 1939-1975, Vol. 1: La configuracian del estado espanol, nacional y catolico (1939-1947).
June 1, 2001... Politica, cultura y sociedad en la Espana de Franco, 1939-1975, Vol. 1: La configuracian del estado espanol, nacional y catolico (1939-1947). By Gonzalo Redondo. Navarra, Spain: EUNSA, 1999. 1143 pp. n.p. Being one of the most discussed...

Stones of Witness: Chruch Architecture and Function.
June 1, 2001... Stones of Witness: Church Architecture and Function. By Colin Cunningham. Stroud: Sutton, 1999. x + 214 pp. $44.95 cloth. The son of an Anglican priest and a graduate of Oxford, Colin Cunningham is a lecturer for the Open University in...

Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender.
June 1, 2001... Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 300 pp. $54.95 cloth. In his book, The Darwinian Revolution, Michael...

Les congregations religieuses de la France au Quebec, 1880-1914, Tome 2: Au plus fort de la tourmente, 1901-1904.
June 1, 2001... Les congregations religieuses de la France au Quebec, 1880-1914, Tome 2: Au plus fort de la tourmente, 1901-1904. By Guy Laperriere. Sainte-Foy: Les presses de l'Universite Laval, 1999. 597 pp. $35.00 cloth. The second volume in a trilogy...

Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America.
June 1, 2001... Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. Edited by James H. Hutson. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. viii + 213 pp. $70.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. This volume presents six substantial essays. Five of them were...

Religion in Nineteenth Century America.
June 1, 2001... Religion in Nineteenth Century America. By Grant Wacker. Religion in American Life. Edited by Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 188 pp. $22.00 cloth. Wacker's study of the nineteenth century is part of...

Emma Newman: A Frontier Woman Minister.
June 1, 2001... Emma Newman: A Frontier Woman Minister. By Randi Jones Walker. Women and Gender in North American Religions. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xxiv + 200 pp. Frontispiece, maps, index. $29.95 cloth. Emma Newman (1838-1921)...

Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production.
June 1, 2001... Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. By David Morgan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv + 417 pp. $35.00 cloth. Protestants, particularly of the evangelical variety, like to...

World without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925.
June 1, 2001... World without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925. By James H. Moorhead. Religion in North America 28. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxiv + 241 pp. $29.95 cloth. Moorhead is a...

Tennessee Baptists: A Comprehensive History, 1779-1999.
June 1, 2001... Tennessee Baptists: A Comprehensive History, 1779-1999. By Albert W. Wardin Jr. Brentwood, Tenn.: Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, 1999. 704 pp. $29.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Wardin has undertaken one of those thankless...

Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South.
June 1, 2001... Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South. By A. James Fuller. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xx + 343 pp. $49.95 cloth. A. James Fuller successfully places this important Baptist...

Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture.
June 1, 2001... Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture. Edited by Randall Miller and Jon Wakelyn. 2d ed. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1999. xxviii + 260 pp. $18.95 paper. This is a paperback edition, with a new preface, of an...

Thomas Merton & the Monastic Vision.
June 1, 2001... Thomas Merton & the Monastic Vision. By Lawrence S. Cunningham. Library of Religious Biography. Edited by Mark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch, and Allen C. Guelzo. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. xii + 228 pp. $16.00 paper. ...

A World History of Christianity.
June 1, 2001... A World History of Christianity. Edited by Adrian Hastings. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. xiv + 594 pp. $45.00 cloth. This volume is a unique and on the whole very successful attempt to present a non-Eurocentric history of...