Church History articles from June 2006

Church History archives from June 2006

What happened to Christian Canada? (1).
June 1, 2006... By asking "what happened to Christian Canada," I begin with an assumption that there once was a Christian Canada which is now gone. That assumption is intentional. It is intended to highlight not only the dramatic changes that have taken place...

Pastoral care east of Eden: the consistory of Geneva, 1568-82 (1).
June 1, 2006... Reformed churches in early modern Europe gave special prominence to moral discipline and created institutions to oversee public behavior and promote personal sanctification. These moral tribunals--known variously as consistories, kirk sessions,...

English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform.
June 1, 2006... Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling... crossing and recrossing the great bridge,...

Biblical authority and the impact of higher criticism in Irish Presbyterianism, ca. 1850-1930 (1).
June 1, 2006... The decades between 1850 and 1930 saw traditional understandings of Christianity subjected to rigorous social, intellectual, and theological criticism across the transatlantic world. Unprecedented urban and industrial expansion drew attention...

The methodology of the modernists: process in American Protestantism.
June 1, 2006... "The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention." (1) Scholarship on early-twentieth-century American Protestant modernism appears to have arrived at an impasse. Although scholars continue to...

Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992.(The Church and Galileo)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 485 pp. $50.00 cloth. The Church and Galileo. Edited by Ernan McMullin. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005....

Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Edited by D. N. Showalter and S. J. Friesen. Harvard Theological Studies 53. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. vii + 526 pp. $50.00 cloth; $35.00 paper. This...

The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature and the Ancient Novel.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature and the Ancient Novel. By Christine M. Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 186 pp. $49.95 cloth. Thomas presents a detailed study of the textual traditions surrounding the Acts of Peter...

Slavery in Early Christianity.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Slavery in Early Christianity. By Jennifer A. Glancy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv + 203 pp. $55.00 cloth. In this well-informed and informative study, Jennifer Glancy is concerned with the interface of early Christianity and...

The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul. Edited by Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 232 pp. $90.00 cloth. The Bobbio Missal (MS Latin 13246, Bibliotheque nationale de...

Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West 1099-1187.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187). By Sylvia Schein. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. London: Ashgate, 2005. xvi + 239 pp. $89.95 cloth. Sylvia Schein's contributions to...

The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend. By Joseph Goering. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 190 pp. $35.00 cloth. "The question that begs for an answer is how a piece of ordinary tableware became, in the course...

The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. By Mark Gregory Pegg. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. This book is a gem. Mark Gregory Pegg, Associate Professor of...

Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A Guide to a Renaissance Man.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A Guide to a Renaissance Man. Edited by Christopher M. Bellitto, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson. New York: Paulist, 2004. 496 pp. $29.95 cloth. This introductory text, published by Paulist Press,...

Reformation Europe.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Reformation Europe. By Ulinka Rublack. New Approaches to European History 28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 208 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.99 paper. This textbook is part of a distinguished series, the author belonging to...

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts and The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation.(http://www.ad-fontes)(Website overview)
June 1, 2006... The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts and The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation. Ad Fontes, LLC. http://www.ad-fontes. communicate. Ad Fontes is a digital library of Reformation and post-Reformation era texts (to the...

Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason. By Nancy K. Levene. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxi + 261 pp. $75.00 cloth. The preface informs us that "this book is directed at all readers with an interest in...

Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolome Carranza.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolome Carranza. Edited by John Edwards and Ronald Truman. Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. xx + 235 pp. $94.95 cloth. Five...

Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. By David R. Como. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi + 513 pp. $65.00 cloth. Antinomians are familiar protagonists...

'A Glorious Work in the World': Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-1750.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... 'A Glorious Work in the World': Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-1750. By David Ceri Jones. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004. xiv + 386 pp. $69.95 cloth. Historians of evangelicalism have long...

The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture. By Jonathan Sheehan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xvi + 273 pp. $35.00 cloth. Scholars have proposed that with increasing secularization, Christianity in the...

Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life. By Peter Horton. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx + 385 pp. $165.00 cloth. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-74) was the last of "the musical Wesleys," as Erik...

Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France. By Caroline Ford. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 171 pp. $35.00 cloth. In the introduction to the series of related case studies or "microhistories" that comprises...

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism. By Zoe Knox. London: Routledge Curzon, 2005. x + 257 pp. 70.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. Dr. Knox's overall review of ecclesiastical politics in Russian society...

English Catholic Historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... English Catholic Historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954. By John Vidmar, O.P. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic, 2005. vii + 184 pp. $69.50 cloth. Twenty years ago, Rosemary O'Day surveyed the historiography of the English...

The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas. Edited by James Muldoon. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 2004. viii + 273 pp. $65.00 cloth. The Spiritual Conversion of America continues a long-running project of James Muldoon as a...

Piety and Power: Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Piety and Power: Gender and Religions Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700. By Leslie J. Lindenauer. Studies in American Popular History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxvii + 181 pp. $70.00 cloth. A growing number of...

John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. By Jeffrey H. Morrison. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xv + 220 pp. $22.50 cloth. This welcome study of John Witherspoon's political thought parallels the...

Taking the Jesus Road: The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America among Native Americans.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Taking the Jesus Road: The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America Among Native Americans. By LeRoy Koopman. The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America 50. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. xiv + 512 pp. $49.00 cloth. In...

Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Religion and American Culture Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xxxiv + 266 pp. $42.50 cloth. The fantastic success of the...

Borderland Religion: The Emergence of an English-Canadian Identity.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Borderland Religion: The Emergence of an English Canadian Identity. By J. I. Little. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xv + 386 pp. $75.00 cloth; $32.95 paper. This study tells the story of what happened to religious beliefs and...

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. By Edward J. Blum. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. x + 356 pp. $54.95 cloth. Blum's book "offers a new window into reconciliation and...

The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. By Douglas J. Slawson. Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi + 332 pp....

Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression. By Colleen McDannell. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 322 pp. $45.00 cloth. In Picturing Faith, Colleen McDannell examines the depiction of religion in photographs...

All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race 1945-1970. By Alan Scot Willis. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xiii + 264 pp. $45.00 cloth. Alan Scot Willis, assistant professor of history at Northern...

Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art. By Susan Srigley. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 208 pp. $42.00 cloth; $20.00 paper. The appropriate audience for this study of O'Connor's fiction and its theological base,...

Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America. By Miguel A. De La Torre. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004. xviii + 246 pp. $18.00 paper. Santeria, also called Regla de Ocha, is an Afro-Cuban religion with roots in...

The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. By Douglas A. Sweeney. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005. 208 pp. $17.95 paper. Sweeney's history of American evangelicalism will no doubt prove itself a helpful classroom...

Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners. By Nancy Tatom Ammerman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xi + 345 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. For most of the century between the Civil War and the civil...

Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent. By Rebecca J. Lester. Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xiv + 344 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Rebecca J. Lester's Jesus...

Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884-1934.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884-1934. By Elizabeth Underwood. Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, 2003. 328 pp. $32.00 cloth. Many scholars have written books and articles about church growth,...

Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New. By Daniel T. Reff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 291 pp. $60.00 cloth; $21.99 paper. Studies of the effect of...

Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change. Edited by Peggy Brock. Studies in Christian Mission 31. Leiden: Brill, 2005. x + 263 pp. $127.00 cloth. Religious change is contestable territory and the term itself, as this volume illustrates, is...

Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History. By Wolfgang Behringer. Cambridge: Polity, 2004. xxi + 337 pp. $62.95 cloth; $28.95 paper. This is a compellingly important, profoundly learned, and intensely frustrating book. Wolfgang Behringer is...

Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination. Edited by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 318 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. Weeping was, ten years ago, one...

Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Elizabeth A. Dreyer and Mark S. Burrows. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xi + 382 pp. $60.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. The editors of Minding the Spirit...

Minutes of the American Society of Church History annual business meeting.(SOCIETY NOTICES)
June 1, 2006... January 7, 2006, 4:45-5:45 p.m. Philadelphia Marriott Hotel Present: 46 members. 1. Minutes of annual meeting of Jan. 2005 approved. 2. Executive Secretary's report. Renovations continue to be made to the ASCH website,...

Awards of the American Society of Church History.(Awards list)
June 1, 2006... The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, offered annually, is a subvention fund of $1,000 to assist a press in publishing a book-length manuscript in church history. The prize is limited to first books. The monetary grant will be made upon...