Church History articles from June 2005

Church History archives from June 2005

African American religious intellectuals and the theological foundations of the civil rights movement, 1930-55.
June 1, 2005... Among the innumerable warriors against legalized racial segregation and discrimination in American society, the iconic Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a principal spokesman and symbol of the black freedom struggle. The many marches that he...

The cult of martyrs in Asterius of Amaseia's vision of the Christian city.
June 1, 2005... For what is worth as much as these festival assemblies? And what is so august and all-beautiful as to see the whole city with one's whole race issuing from the town, occupying a holy place to perform pure mysteries of the most genuine devotion?...

Henry Hammond and covenant theology.
June 1, 2005... Henry Hammond (1605-60), the learned and practical English priest who during the Interregnum did as much as any man and a good deal more than most to reinforce and renew the ideational underpinnings of his Church, is a familiar figure in...

Geneva's "enlightened orthodoxy": the middle way of Jacob Vernet (1698-1789).
June 1, 2005... Jacob Vernet (1698-1789) numbers among those eighteenth-century theologians whose relationships to the philosophes have saved them from being forgotten but at the cost of being misrepresented. Vernet is usually remembered for editing the first...

Presbyterianism and the American Revolution in the Middle Colonies (1).
June 1, 2005... After the Revolution, Thomas Jones, an embittered loyalist exile, identified the culprits he deemed responsible for the rebellion in New York: the Whig "triumvirate" of Presbyterians--William Livingston, William Smith, and John Morin Scott....

Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. By Larry W. Hurtado. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. xxii + 746 pp. $55.00 cloth. When I was a student at Basel, Oscar Cullmann once told me that New Testament...

Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.(Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. By Bart D. Ehrman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 294 pp. $30.00 cloth. Lost Scriptures. Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament. By...

The Early Development of Canon Law and the Council of Serdica.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Early Development of Canon Law and the Council of Serdica. By Hamilton Hess. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 279 pp. $80.00, 50.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. This book is a substantially...

Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvi + 460 pp. $140.00 cloth. This impressive study, which traces the origins...

Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch. By Dorothy Verkerk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 262 pp. $75.00 cloth. With this volume, Dorothy Verkerk summarizes her important research on one of the...

The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium. Edited by Michael Frassetto. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xi + 278 pp. $59.95 cloth. This volume evolved from papers read at sessions devoted to the...

Byzantium and the Crusades.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Byzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. xviii + 259 pp. $29.95 cloth. Two diametrically opposed views long dominated discussions of Byzantine relations with the West: one pro-Western and...

The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. By Albert Derolez. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 9. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 203 pp. 99 pages of plates,...

Vulgariter Beghinae: Eight Centuries of Beguine History in the Low Countries.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Vulgariter Beghinae: Eight Centuries of Beguine History in the Low Countries. By Hans Geybels. Brepols Essays in European Culture 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. 182 pp. $30.00 cloth. This is a strange book. Hans Geybels claims to offer a new,...

Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Poets of Divine Love: Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century. By Alessandro Vettori. Fordham Series in Medieval Studies 3. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. xxi + 227 pp. $55.00 cloth. Apropos of the title of this work...

Spanish Rome, 1500-1700.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. By Thomas James Dandelet. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. x + 279 pp. $42.50 cloth. For two hundred years Rome was a kind of Spanish protectorate, groomed and coddled because of Spain's adjacent lands...

Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation. By Anne T. Thayer. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. xiv + 226 pp. $94.95 cloth. In contrast to an earlier explanatory model of the causes of...

John Wyclif: Scriptural Logic, Real Presence and the Parameters of Orthodoxy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... John Wyclif: Scriptural Logic, Real Presence and the Parameters of Orthodoxy. By Ian Christopher Levy. Marquette Studies in Theology, 36. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Marquette University Press, 2003. 351 pp. $35.00 paper. Ian Christopher Levy, in...

Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents. By Helen Hills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 268 pp. $60.00 cloth. Helen Hills's Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in...

One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz. By Patricia Behre Miskimin. Contributions to the Study of World History, 90. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002. xxiv + 153 pp. $62.95 cloth. ...

Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Diocese.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Diocese. By Jeremy Gregory. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 355 pp. $74.00 cloth. Until recently the received tradition has...

Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology. By Timothy Larsen. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2004. viii + 234 pp. $39.99 cloth. Timothy Larsen has authored or edited several volumes on Victorian...

Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society. By Rowan Strong. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii + 347 pp. $85.00 cloth. Situated along the banks of the River Spey, Aberlour is a...

The British Christian Women's Movement: A Rehabilitation of Eve.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The British Christian Women's Movement: A Rehabilitation of Eve. By Jenny Daggers. New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. xxii + 191 pp. $69.95 cloth. The British Christian...

Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998. By Patrick Mitchel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. $99.00 cloth. In this lucidly written history of Irish evangelical unionism, Patrick Mitchel applies that...

God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism. By David S. Katz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xvi + 397 pp. $38.00 cloth. When Daniel Defoe asserted that his Robinson Crusoe (1719) was...

Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of the Revolution.(Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of the Revolution. By Vera Shevzov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 358 pp. $49.95 cloth. Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars. Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene....

Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin. By Kevin R. Spicer. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xi + 253 pp. $36.00 cloth. This well-documented study describes the relationship between the Berlin...

Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards. By William A. Dyrness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 342 pp. $85.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. Although William Dyrness uses the term...

The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards. By William J. Danaher Jr. Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2004. xii + 324 pp. $24.95 cloth. Danaher argues that Edwards's Trinitarian reflections...

Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards. By Douglas A. Sweeney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 255 pp. $55.00 cloth. Nathaniel Taylor, the chief architect of the New Haven theology, was the...

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. By James A. Sandos. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xx + 251 pp. $35.00 cloth. James Sandos is not the first to tackle this piece of California religious...

Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. By Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xxvi + 326 pp. $35.00 cloth. Much has been written about the relationship between Mormonism and...

The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot. By Kathleen Flake. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi + 238 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. A web site article about Mormon history...

North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy. Edited by Wilbert R. Shenk. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. xiv + 350 pp. $45.00 paper. In 1806, five...

The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell. By Robert Bruce Mullin. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. xvi + 296 pp. $21.00 paper. Mullin begins his book with a brief explanation of its title. He tells us that Bushnell...

Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism.(The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. By Gillis Harp. American Intellectual Culture. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xii + 237 pp. $32.95 paper. The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips...

God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... God's Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. By Bruce J. Evensen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 232 pp. $29.95 cloth. John Brown, an early-twentieth-century evangelist and founder of the...

Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative. By Deborah Vansau McCauley and Laura E. Porter. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xiv + 209 pp. $28.00 paper. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this book with its 347...

Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Holy Boldness: Women Preachers" Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self. By Susie C. Stanley. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. xxxvi + 268 pp. $35.00 cloth. Building on her already extensive work on Holiness women, Susie...

Catholic Women's Colleges in America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. x + 439 pp. $45.00 cloth. Editors Schier and Russett have produced a genuinely pioneering volume....

Women and Twentieth-Century American Protestantism.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Women and Twentieth-Century American Protestantism. Edited by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xvi + 350 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Irony, paradox, and conflict, the...

Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America. By Amy Johnson Frykholm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 224 pp. $29.95 cloth. The twelve books of the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, written by Tim LaHaye and...

Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America. By Larry A. Witharn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 330 pp. $35.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In this book Larry Witham--a reporter for the Washington...

Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church. By Darryl V. Caterine. Religion in North America 30. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxxii + 157 pp. $29.95 cloth. This book...

Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology.(How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Edited by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll. Foreword by John D. Witvliet. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. xx + 288 pp. $18.00 paper. How Sweet the...

Fortress Introduction to Black Church History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Fortress Introduction to Black Church History. By Anne H. Pinn and Anthony B. Pinn. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2002. viii + 184 pp. $16.00 paper. This volume is aptly titled. It is, indeed, an introduction to black church history and...

Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Strangers At Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Edited by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Steven D. Reschly. Center Books in Anabaptist Studies. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 398 pp....

Religion in America Since 1945: A History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Religion in America Since 1945: A History. By Patrick Allitt. Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. $30.00 cloth. Patrick Allitt's new volume on religion in postwar America...

Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942: A Documented History, Volume 1: A Modest Recovery 1808-1903.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942: A Documented History, Volume 1: A Modest Recovery 1808-1903. By Karel Steenbrink. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 196. Leiden: KITLV, 2003. xviii + 532 pp. $47.50...

A Global Mennonite History, vol. 1, Africa.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... A Global Mennonite History: Volume One: Africa. By Alemu Checoles and others. General editors John A. Lapp and Arnold Snyder. Ontario: Pandora, 2003. 320 pp. $32.00 paper. This is the first of a projected five-volume global history of...

Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love. By J. Joyce Schuld. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 299 pp. $55.00 cloth; $25 paper. Two decades after his death, Michel Foucault's resurrection as a...

Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition. By Jaroslav Pelikan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. liv + 609 pp. $37.50 cloth. Not only in the U.S. but also in Europe,...

The Ecumenical Movement: An Introductory History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Ecumenical Movement: An Introductory History. By Thomas E. Fitzgerald. Contributions to the Study of Religion 72. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xii + 276 pp. $64.95 cloth. Comprehensive discussions of the ecumenical movement are few...