Church History articles from June 2008

Church History archives from June 2008

Multiple options: the world of the fifteenth-century church.
June 1, 2008... ANY historical period called "late" is headed for interpretive trouble, and one called "late medieval" is probably doomed. (1) Periodization is an artifice, as we know, yet also an art. Historians have entirely reconceived "late antiquity"...

The politics of mysticism: Elisabeth of Spalbeek in context.(Biography)
June 1, 2008... ELISABETH of Spalbeek (ft. 1246-1304) was one of the mulieres religiosae who flourished in the Low Countries during the thirteenth century. (1) Although she is known today almost exclusively for her stigmata and her performance of Christ's...

Interpreting the Dutch great awakening (1749-1755).
June 1, 2008... IN 1754, the Scottish minister John Gillies (1712-1796) published a collection of historical accounts concerning "remarkable periods of the success of the Gospel. (1) Its composer was a spider in a web of correspondents in Europe and North...

"Though their skin remains brown, I hope their souls will soon be white": slavery, French missionaries, and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the American South, 1789-1865 (1).
June 1, 2008... ON August 21, 1861, Bishop Auguste Marie Martin of Natchitoches, Louisiana, issued a pastoral letter "on the occasion of the War of Southern Independence.--In it, Martin argued that slavery was "the manifest will of God." It was the will of God...

The origin and characteristics of evangelical Protestantism in Korea at the turn of the twentieth century.
June 1, 2008... ONE peculiar phenomenon in the Korean Protestant churches today is that most churches, regardless of their size and denomination, assert that they are "evangelical." By claiming to be evangelical, they want to display not simply their...

The Chalcedon problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the origins of Christian reconstructionism.
June 1, 2008... ACCORDING to the town criers of liberal American journalism, readers must wake up and do something. Hide your children--there is a movement afoot among conservative Christians to take over our country and give America a theocratic makeover. A...

Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-Sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002. Edited by Andrew Louth and Augustine Casiday. Publications for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies...

Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. By Bissera V. Penteheva.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. By Bissera V. Penteheva. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xviii + 302 pp. $60.00 cloth. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Icons and Power examines...

Medieval Monks and Their World: Ideas and Realities: Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Medieval Monks and Their World: Ideas and Realities; Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan. Edited by David Blanks, Michael Frassetto, and Amy Livingstone. Brill's Series in Church History 25. Leiden: Brill, 2006. vi + 217. $99.00 cloth. ...

Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany. Edited by Alison I. Beach. Medieval Church Studies 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. xiv + 353 pp. $81.00 cloth. This volume is an excellent demonstration of the...

The Image of St. Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Image of St. Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century. By Rosiland B. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 527 pp. $135 cloth. Somewhere in this enormous tome, surrounded by numerous asides and...

The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages. By Deeana Copeland Klepper. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. ix + 230 pp. $55.00...

Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham. By Margaret Harvey. Regions and Regionalism in History VI. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2006. xiv + 234 pp. $85.00 cloth. This meticulously researched and detailed book is a close study of the...

Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530. By David M. D'Andrea. Changing Perspectives in Early Modern Europe 5. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xiv + 217. $75 cloth. In describing...

Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama. By Heather Hill-Vasquez. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. x + 231 pp. $59.95 cloth. In large part, the religious plays of the...

The Uses of History in Early Modern England.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Uses of History in Early Modern England. Edited by Paulina Kewes. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 2006. x + 451 pp. $39.95 cloth. There are nineteen essays in this volume, all originally published in the Huntington Library...

Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1525-1600.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1525-1600. By Gary K. Waite. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xvi + 320 pp. $65.00 cloth. The executions by fire in the early modern era are a...

John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin's First Commentaries.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin's First Commentaries. By R. Ward Holder. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions CXXVII. Leiden: Brill, 2006. x + 318 pp. $125.00 cloth. While no one would dispute that the...

Calvin and the Bible.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Calvin and the Bible. Edited by Donald K. McKim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. $75.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. Don McKim has pulled together an impressive array of U.S., Canadian, and European Calvin scholars in...

Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. By Benjamin Ehlers. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 124th series (2006). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins...

Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. By Nicholas P. Cushner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 256 pp. $29.95 paper. In this overview of the earliest Jesuit missions to indigenous...

Reformed Orthodoxy and Philosophy, 1625-1750: Gisbertus Voetius, Petrus van Mastricht and Anthonius Driessen.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Reformed Orthodoxy and Philosophy, 1625-1750: Gisbertus Voetius, Petrus van Mastricht and Anthonius Driessen. By Aza Goudriaan. Brill's Series in Church History 26. Boston: Brill, 2006. xiv + 395 pp. $155.00 cloth. It is commonly agreed...

John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England. By John Coffey. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2006. xii + 340 pp. $105.00 cloth. This crisply written, closely printed volume is the...

God's Irishmen: Theological Debate in Cromwellian Ireland.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... God's Irishmen: Theological Debate in Cromwellian Ireland. By Crawford Gribben. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ix + 284 pp. 38.99 [pounds sterling] ($65.00) cloth. God's Irishmen is an...

Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660-1760.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660-1760. By Clare Haynes. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 188 pp. $99.00 cloth. The visual culture of Roman Catholicism haunted eighteenth-century English Protestantism. Gentlemen...

The Cambridge History of Christianity VII: Enlightenment, Reawakening, and Revolution 1660-1815.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Cambridge History of Christianity VII: Enlightenment, Reawakening, and Revolution 1660-1815. Edited by Stewart J. Brown and Timothy Tackett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 681 pp. $180 cloth. The Cambridge History...

Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France. By Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Magic in History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. x + 214 pp. $70 cloth; $25 paper. Judicial archives of the...

Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: Culture, Politics, and Religion, 1693-1773.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: Culture, Politics, and Religion, 1693-1773. By Paul Shore. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu 61. Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu;...

Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America. By Aaron Spencer Fogleman. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x + 331 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Sex and violence are not...

The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880. By William R. MeKelvy. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xiv + 323 pp. $45.00 cloth. In The English Cult of Literature,...

Gilfillan of Dundee, 1813-1878: Interpreting Religion and Culture in Mid-Victorian Scotland.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Gilfillan of Dundee, 1813-1878: Interpreting Religion and Culture in Mid-Victorian Scotland. By Aileen Black. Dundee, Scotland: Dundee University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] paper. The inscription on his funeral monument...

"The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... "The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848. By Daniel S. Wright. Studies in American Popular History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. xii + 279 pp. $110.00 cloth. Daniel...

Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. By Peter Bowler. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 258 pp. $24.95 cloth....

Yet Saints Their Watch Are Keeping: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and the Development of Evangelical Ecclesiology, 1887-1937.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Yet Saints Their Watch Are Keeping: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and the Development of Evangelical Ecclesiology, 1887-1937. By J. Michael Utzinger. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. xiv + 319 pp. $45.00 cloth. This book makes a...

More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930. By Deborah A. Skok. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x + 245 pp. $38.00 cloth. For students of history and viewers of Jeopardy! alike, the...

Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46. By Nancy Marie Robertson. Women in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii + 283 pp. $45.00 cloth. While many Americans today may view their local...

African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement. By David Maxwell. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. xv + 253 pp. $26.95 paper. The rise of pentecostalism as a global phenomenon has...

Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States. By George E. Schultze, S.J. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2007. xii + 176 pp. $52.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Strangers in a Foreign Land is the first book-length...

Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. By Anthea D. Butler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 207 pp. $55.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. Anthea Butler's study of women in the Church of God in...

The Cambridge History of Christianity IX: World Christianities c. 1914-c. 2000.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Cambridge History of Christianity IX: World Christianities c. 1914-c. 2000. Edited by Hugh McLeod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii + 719 pp. $180 cloth. Historians of Christianity are now paying attention to...

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. By Judith Weisenfeld. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv + 344 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Judith Weisenfeld's richly documented book...

Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change. By Melissa J. Wilde. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 196 pp. $35.00 cloth. Vatican II is an excellent analysis of the internal workings of the Second Vatican...

When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion. By Susan Ridgley Bales. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 257 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In When I Was a Child, Susan Ridgely Bales...

Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. By Donal Godfrey. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2007. xii + 197 pp. $75.00 cloth. Father Donal Godfrey, S.J., revised his dissertation to produce Gays and...

After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty--and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty--and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion. By Robert Wuthnow. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx + 299 pp. $29.95 cloth. According to the conventional wisdom,...

The Cambridge History of Christianity V: Eastern Christianity.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Cambridge History of Christianity V: Eastern Christianity. Edited by Michael Angold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 724 pp. $180 cloth. Though most are informative, the contributions in this volume are uneven in...

Religion and the Challenges of Science.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Religion and the Challenges of Science. Edited by William Sweet and Richard Feist. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xii + 237 pp. $99.95 cloth. This is a collection of essays, most written especially for this volume, exploring the...

Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America. By Ellis Sandoz. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xviii + 248 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Questions relating to "religion and politics," which have certainly presented...

Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965. Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, and Mark Valeri. Lived Religions. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 364 pp. $60.00 cloth;...

African American Folk Healing.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... African American Folk Healing. By Stephanie Y. Mitchem. New York: New York University Press, 2007. x + 190 pp. $20.00 paper. Stephanie Y. Mitchem provides a fresh perspective on the healing traditions of black people in the United States in...

Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. Edited by Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x + 198 pp. $60.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. This collection of articles explores the influence of Catholicism on the...

Books received.
June 1, 2008... Aitken, Tom, Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissar: The Salvation Army in Russia, 1907 1923. Studies in Christian History and Thought. Milton Keynes, U.K.: Paternoster, 2007. Anyabwile, Thabiti M., The Decline of African American Theology:...

Minutes of the American Society of Church History Annual Business Meeting.(SOCIETY NOTICES)(Conference notes)
June 1, 2008... January 5, 2008, 5:05-5:55 p.m. Hilton Washington Hotel The meeting convened at 5:05 p.m. with sixty-five persons in attendance. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were approved. 2. Executive Committee report. The size of...