Church History articles from June 2004

Church History archives from June 2004

Gender and the construction of models of Christian activity: a case study.
June 1, 2004... In my review of previous presidential addresses, I found it interesting to discover that only one had built upon one of the most significant cultural and scholarly developments of the past generation and perhaps the past century, that is,...

Female deacons in the Byzantine Church (1).
June 1, 2004... Despite the energy devoted by American and Western European church historians and theologians to the question of the ordination of women in early Christianity (2) and in the (western) medieval Christian Church, (3) these scholars have shown...

Negotiating knightly piety: the cult of the warrior-saints in the West, ca. 1070-ca. 1200.
June 1, 2004... Around 1184, Alan de Lille composed a sermon addressed to Europe's knights (Ad milites) as part of a treatise on the art of preaching (Ars praedicandi). In it, Alan condemned the felonious and violent behavior of Western warriors and reproached...

The politics of anxiety: Prussian Protestants and their Mazurian parishioners.
June 1, 2004... Friedrich Oldenberg (1820-94), the Managing Director of the Central Committee for Inner Missions, toured the southern districts of East Prussia in the autumn of 1865. He made the trip at the request of the Inner Mission Society and the Senior...

"A human being, and not a mere social factor": Catholic strategies for dealing with sterilization statutes in the 1920s.
June 1, 2004... In the wake of the 1927 landmark Supreme Court decision in the Buck v. Bell case, which affirmed the constitutionality of laws authorizing the compulsory sterilization of so-called "feeble-minded" residents of state institutions, moral...

Jan Shipps and the mainstreaming of Mormon studies.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... Like the ancient Israelites, Jan Shipps has wandered in the wilderness for forty years. If not wandered, sojourned. If not wilderness, Promised Land. Perspectives differ. Shipps's long experience among the Latter-day Saints indisputably sheds...

The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians. Translated by Ronald E. Heine. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 297 pp. $85.00 cloth. The supply of Origen's writings...

Hungary Under the Early Arpads, 890s to 1063.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Hungary Under the Early Arpads, 890s to 1063. By Z. J. Kosztoinyik. East European Monographs 605. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xiv + 461 pp. $63.00 cloth. This is the fourth in a series of studies on medieval Hungary history...

The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050. Edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xvi + 360 pp. $29.95 paper. The approach of the year 2000...

Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century. By Susan Twyman. Henry Bradshaw Society, Subsidia 4. London: Boydell, 2002. xii + 251 pp. $70.00 cloth. This book is a study of intra- and extramural adventus in Rome; other aspects of papal...

Warriors of the Lord: the Military Orders of Christendom.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Warriors of the Lord: the Military Orders of Christendom. By Michael Walsh. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2003. 208 pp. $28.00 cloth. This is not a scholarly book. It is, rather, a cross between a coffee-table book and a popularized...

Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536. By Norman Housley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. $55.00 cloth. How refreshing to read a book in which the author assumes that the sources actually mean what they say! This study...

A Convent Tale: a Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan. By P. Renee Baernstein. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxii + 270 pp. $27.50 cloth. According to P. Renee Baernstein, what mattered most in the end to the nuns of San Paolo Converso...

The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: the Life and Works of Johann von Staupitz.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: The Life and Works of Johann von Staupitz. By Franz Posset. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xxii + 398 pp. $104.95 cloth. Johann von Staupitz (ca....

Heinrich Bullinger and the Doctrine of Predestination: Author of "the Other Reformed Tradition"?(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Heinrich Bullinger and the Doctrine of Predestination: Author of "the Other Reformed Tradition"? By Cornelis P. Venema. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2002. 137 pp. $17.99...

Saints in Art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Saints in Art. By Rosa Giorgi. Edited by Stefano Zuffi. Translated by Thomas Michael Hartmann. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. 384 pp. $24.95 paper. Aimed at a general, museum-going public, this illustrated handbook indexes...

The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert. By Robert Whalen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xxii + 216 pp. $45.00 cloth. Robert Whalen's study of John Donne and George Herbert is a welcome addition to the ongoing...

Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1945. By Edward E. Roslof. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvii + 259 pp. $45.00 cloth. Red Priests is an excellent examination of one aspect of the internal...

The African Sermons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The African Sermons. By Albert Schweitzer. Edited and Translated by Steven E. G. Melamed, Sr. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. lvii + 200 pp. $45.00 cloth. This collection contains seventy of Albert Schweitzer's African...

The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. By Richard Steigmann-Gall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 294 pp. $30.00 cloth. Richard Steigmann-Gall examines the religious views of the Nazi Party elite in...

Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States. By Dan McKanan. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 294 pp. $52.00 cloth. Seeking to invigorate...

The Distinctiveness of Moravian Culture: Essays and Documents in Moravian History in Honor of Vernon H. Nelson on his Seventieth Birthday.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Distinctiveness of Moravian Culture: Essays and Documents in Moravian History in Honor of Vernon H. Nelson on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited By Craig D. Atwood and Peter Vogt. Nazareth, Penn.: Moravian Historical Society, 2003. 297 pp....

Voices of the Turtledoves: the Sacred World of Ephrata.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata. By Jeff Bach. Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series 3. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Co-published with the Pennsylvania German Society. xx + 282...

Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s. By Roydon Loewen. Cornelius H. Wedel Historical Series 12. North Newton, Kans.: Bethel College, 2001. xii + 139 pp. $15.00 paper. Roydon Loewen's Hidden Worlds is a set of...

The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xii + 332 pp. $60.00 cloth. Americans have come to...

Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne W. Fuller. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xvi + 264 pp. $39.95 cloth. Nineteenth-century debates over the operation and use of the United States mail system have...

The Reverend Mark Matthews: an Activist in the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era. By Dale E. Soden. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xvi + 274 pp. $30.00 cloth. Dale Soden's biography of Mark Matthews seeks to use one charismatic individual to...

Writing Peace: the Unheard Voices of Great War Mennonite Objectors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Writing Peace: The Unheard Voices of Great War Mennonite Objectors. By Melanie Springer Mock. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History 40. Telford, Penn.: Pandora, 2003. 346 pp. $23.95 cloth. Writing Peace is a mixture of anthology and...

In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice. By David Nelson Duke. Religion and American Culture Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xviii + 306 pp. $39.95 cloth. David Nelson...

Greenwich Village Catholics: St. Joseph's Church and the Evolution of an Urban Faith Community, 1829-2002.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Greenwich Village Catholics: St. Joseph's Church and the Evolution of an Urban Faith Community, 1829-2002. By Thomas J. Shelley. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xviii + 306 pp. $34.95 cloth. Thomas J....

Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education. By Rick Ostrander. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. xiv + 277 pp. $29.95 cloth. This institutional history traces a "coming of age"...

Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture. By Stephen A. Marini. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiv + 395 pp. $34.95 cloth. In this one-of-a-kind book, Stephen Marini, Professor of Christian Studies at...

The Lord's Distant Vineyard: a History of the Oblates and the Catholic Community in British Columbia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Lord's Distant Vineyard: A History of the Oblates and the Catholic Community in British Columbia. By Vincent J. McNally. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press and Western Canadian, 2000. xxvi + 443 pp. $34.95 paper. Vincent McNally...

Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain. By Laurence F. Wilmot. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. xvi + 148 pp. $38.00 cloth. Wilfrid Laurier University's Life Writing Series features the accounts...

Minutes of the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History.(Society Notices)
June 1, 2004... 8 January 2004 A meeting of the Council of the American Society of Church History was called to order at 4:15 p.m. on 8 January 2004 in the State Room of the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., by President-Elect Dennis C....