Church History articles from March 2000

Church History archives from March 2000

Forging Papal Authority: Charters from the Monastery of Montier-en-Der.
March 1, 2000... "We confirm with all our authority, to the abbot of that house, everything that our predecessors as popes granted them in writing, as well as everything in the letters of our beloved son Charlemagne... that all the possessions of the monastery...

"We Speak to God with our Thoughts": Abelard and the Implications of Private Communication with God.
March 1, 2000... [God] sees there where no man sees, because in punishing sin he considers not the deed but the mind, just as conversely we consider not the mind which we do not see but the deed which we know.... God is said to be the prover and the judge of...

Audacious Nuns: Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare.
March 1, 2000... In 1263 Bonaventure of Bagnoreggio, Minister General of the Franciscan order, complained about recent turmoil between the Friars Minor and Franciscan nuns in a letter addressed to the Provincial Minister of Aragon: "You are undoubtedly aware,...

Retelling the History of the Early Church: Erasmus's Paraphrase on Acts.
March 1, 2000... Scholars have paid relatively little attention to Erasmus's concept of history.(1) This is understandable since Erasmus is not usually considered a historian and is certainly not ranked with humanist historians such as Leonardo Bruni and...

Antiguan Methodism and Antislavery Activity: Anne and Elizabeth Hart in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic.
March 1, 2000... I. CONVERSION TO METHODISM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ANTISLAVERY ACTIVITY Around 1790, two young sisters born into a slaveholding free black family began instructing Antiguan slaves in literacy and Christianity. The sisters, Anne (1768-1834)...

A Political Factor in the Rise of Protestantism in Korea: Protestantism and the 1919 March First Movement.
March 1, 2000... Everywhere the first impulse to social action is given as a rule by real interests, i.e., by political and economic interests. Ideal interests lend wings to these real interests, give them a spiritual meaning, and serve to justify them. Man...

Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death.
March 1, 2000... Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap, 1999. xviii + 542 pp. $35.00 cloth. More than a decade after the Luther anniversary and its numerous publications,...

War in the Holy Land: From Meggido to the West Bank.
March 1, 2000... War in the Holy Land: From Meggido to the West Bank. By Andrew Duncan and Michael Opatowski. Thrupp, U.K.: Sutton, 1998. xii + 222 pp. $39.95 cloth. War in the Holy Land takes on the ambitious task of surveying and analyzing the wars from...

Das Martyrium des Polykarp.
March 1, 2000... Das Martyrium des Polykarp. By Gerd Buschmann. Kommentar zu den Apostolischen Vatern 6. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 452 pp. DM 158. Commentaries on biblical books have for long been a standard feature of Christian and Jewish...

St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: Life and Works.
March 1, 2000... St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: Life and Works. Translated by Michael Slusser. Fathers of the Church 98. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xxii + 199 pp. $29.95 cloth. Michael Slusser's accurate and careful English...

Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism.
March 1, 2000... Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism. By James E. Goehring. Studies in Antiquity and Christianity. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity, 1999. xxxii + 287 pp. $29.00 paper. "The historical reality of early ascetic...

Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power.
March 1, 2000... Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Edited by Marvin W. Meyer and Richard Smith. Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 1994. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv + 409 pp....

Manichaeism in Central Asia and China.
March 1, 2000... Manichaeism in Central Asia and China. By Samuel N. C. Lieu. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 45. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xiv + 258 pp. n.p. Late-twentieth-century students of Manichaeism owe a profound debt to Lieu for his many...

King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings.
March 1, 2000... King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings. Translated with introduction by John Carey. Celtic Studies. Dublin: Four Courts, 1998. 304 pp. $55.00 cloth. This is a collection of Irish religious writings from both vernacular and Latin...

Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996.
March 1, 2000... Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996. Edited by Leslie Brubaker. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 5. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998....

Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary.
March 1, 2000... Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary. By Sharon E. J. Gerstel. College Art Association Monograph on the Fine Arts 56. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. x + 213 pp. $55.00 cloth. Beholding the...

The Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages.
March 1, 2000... The Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages. By Gilbert Dahan. Translated by Jody Gladding. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. xii + 130 pp. $8.00 paper. This book offers an English translation of the...

After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History.
March 1, 2000... After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History. Essays presented to Walter Goffart. Edited by Alexander Callander Murray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xii + 388 pp. $55.00 cloth. This splendid collection...

Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.
March 1, 2000... Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities. By Lutz Kaelber. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. viii + 278 pp. n.p. This is a notably original, analytical, and...

Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085.
March 1, 2000... Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085. By H. E. J. Cowdrey. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xvi + 743 pp. $150.00 cloth. The title of this formidable book is simply Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085. Anyone familiar with this important pope, whose name is often...

Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries.
March 1, 2000... Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries. By Uta-Renate Blumenthal. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS618. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xii + 334 pp. $99.95 cloth. The author of The Early Councils of Pope Paschal II:...

Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France.
March 1, 2000... Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. By Constance Brittain Bouchard. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi + 200 pp. $37.50 cloth; $14.95 paper. Few subjects in medieval studies are more...

Welfare and Warfare, vol. 2 of The Military Orders.
March 1, 2000... Welfare and Warfare, vol. 2 of The Military Orders. Edited by Helen Nicholson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xxviii + 412 pp. $101.95 cloth. This is an informative collection of thirty-three articles on the Christian military orders from...

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with part of the Eracles or Acre text.
March 1, 2000... Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with part of the Eracles or Acre text. Translated by Janet Shirley. Crusade Texts in Translation. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999. x + 156 pp....

The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell.
March 1, 2000... The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell. Edited by Alberto Ferreiro. Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples 6. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xvi + 388 pp. $129.50 cloth. ...

Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait.
March 1, 2000... Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait. By William J. Courtenay. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx + 284 pp. $64.95 cloth. For over twenty...

Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany.
March 1, 2000... Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany. By Joanna Cannon and Andre Vauchez. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xxxiv + 275 pp; $80.00 cloth. This...

William of Ockham: On the Powers of Emperors and Popes.
March 1, 2000... William of Ockham: On the Powers of Emperors and Popes. Translated and edited by Annabel S. Brett. Primary Sources in Political Thought. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1998. 177 pp. $68.00 cloth. Brett presents a translation and introduction to...

The Reformation and the Book.
March 1, 2000... The Reformation and the Book. Edited by Jean-Francois Gilmont. English edition and translation by Karin Maag. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xxii + 498 pp. $127.95 cloth. Originally published in...

The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France.
March 1, 2000... The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France. By Christopher Elwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 251 pp. $49.95 cloth. Why did the Eucharist play...

Entre Bossuet et Maurras: L'Antiprotestantisme en France de 1814 a 1870.
March 1, 2000... Entre Bossuet et Maurras: L'Antiprotestantisme en France de 1814 a 1870. By Michele Sacquin. Memoires et Documents de L'Ecole des Chartes. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 1998. xvi + 526 pp. n. p. paper. Michele Sacquin, a paleographic archivist,...

Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer.
March 1, 2000... Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer. By Frank A. James III. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xiv + 290 pp. $75.00. The subject of this monograph is a strand in...

Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850.
March 1, 2000... Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850. Edited by Lawrence E. Klein and Anthony J. La Vopa. San Marino, Cal.: Huntington Library, 1998. 206 pp. $15.00 paper. Based on the proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the UCLA Center...

A History of the Popes, 1830-1914.
March 1, 2000... A History of the Popes, 1830-1914. By Owen Chadwick. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. x + 614 pp. $135.00 cloth. The distinguished Emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge...

La Bibbia nel concilio: La redazione della constituzione "Dei Verbum" del Vaticano II.
March 1, 2000... La Bibbia nel concilio: La redazione della constituzione "Dei Verbum" del Vaticano II. By Riccardo Burigana. Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose, n.s., 21. Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 1998. 514 pp. L65000. To theologians no less...

Religion and Politics in Spain: The Spanish Church in Transition, 1962-96.
March 1, 2000... Religion and Politics in Spain: The Spanish Church in Transition, 1962-96. By Audrey Brassloff. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xvii + 183 pp. $65.00 cloth. In 1973, as the head of the National-Catholic State, Francisco Franco, was...

Betrayal of the Innocents: Desire, Power, and the Catholic Church in Spain.
March 1, 2000... Betrayal of the Innocents: Desire, Power, and the Catholic Church in Spain. By Timothy J. Mitchell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 178 pp. $39.95 cloth; $16.50 paper. Timothy Mitchell is a prolific writer and acute...

King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance.
March 1, 2000... King Lear and the Naked Truth' Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance. By Judy Kronenfeld. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv + 383 pp. $64.95 cloth; $21.95 paper. Judy Kronenfeld has written an exceptionally learned...

Government by Polemic: James I, the King's Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625.
March 1, 2000... Government by Polemic: James L the King's Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625. By Lori Anne Ferrell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xv + 232 pp. $49.50 cloth. Preaching to the lord mayor and aldermen of London...

Closet Devotions.
March 1, 2000... Closet Devotions. By Richard Rambuss. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv + 193 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Closet Devotions argues for "a powerful vein in seventeenth-century English religious writing that... forthrightly...

Radical Irish Priests: 1660-1970.
March 1, 2000... Radical Irish Priests: 1660-1970. Edited by Gerard Moran. Dublin: Four Courts, 1998. 226 pp. $45.00 cloth. This is a collection of essays on the works and lives of nine Irish Catholic priests whom the editor titles "radical," an adjective...

Thomas Secker: An Eighteenth Century Primate.
March 1, 2000... Thomas Secker: An Eighteenth Century Primate. By Leslie W. Barnard. Lewes, U.K.: The Book Guild, 1998. 234 pp. 15.00 [pounds sterling] cloth. Clerical concerns are now seen to have been more vital to Hanoverian England than was thought to...

The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
March 1, 2000... The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Robert H. Ellison. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1998. 178 pp. $34.50 cloth. This thin volume--122 pages of text and thirty of...

Cardinal Manning: An Intellectual Biography.
March 1, 2000... Cardinal Manning: An Intellectual Biography. By James Pereiro. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xii + 360 pp. $82.00 cloth. Cardinal Manning is the first full-scale investigation of the writings of Cardinal Henry Manning, a convert from Anglicanism...

Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism.
March 1, 2000... Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism. By Graham Neville. New York: Clarendon, 1998. xiii + 360 pp. $90.00 cloth. Edward Hicks is a largely unremembered Church of England cleric whose life stretched from the early days...

The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925.
March 1, 2000... The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925. By Dale A. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 248 pp. $45.00 cloth. Dale Johnson's Outler Award-winning book offers an important and well-written look at the way...

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.
March 1, 2000... The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxviii + 707 pp. $32.50 cloth. Despite his subtitle, Kevin Phillips really means to tell readers that long-standing...

The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism.
March 1, 2000... The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism. By Rodger M. Payne. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. x + 126 pp. $27.00 cloth. Studies of conversion narratives, autobiography, and...

Encounters With God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards.
March 1, 2000... Encounters With God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Religion in America. By Michael J. McClymond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 194 pp. $39.95 cloth. Since Perry Miller's rehabilitation of Jonathan...

Benjamin Franklin and His Gods.
March 1, 2000... Benjamin Franklin and His Gods. By Kerry S. Walters. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv + 213 pp. $44.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Benjamin Franklin has long enjoyed the image of the American philosophe, and with that image...

New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817.
March 1, 2000... New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817. By John R. Fitzmier. Religion in North America. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998. xiv + 261 pp. $39.95 cloth. Some books are so well done that a fair review is...

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845.
March 1, 2000... Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. By Catherine A. Brekus. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii + 466 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Contributing to the...

The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883.
March 1, 2000... The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883. By Gary Laderman. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. xii + 227 pp. $35.00 cloth; $16.00 paper. Beginning with The American Way of Death (New York: Simon and...

A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity, 1880-1940.
March 1, 2000... A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity, 1880-1940. By Paul T. Phillips. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xxvi + 303 pp. $65.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. In attempting a comparative history of...

Early Mormon Documents.
March 1, 2000... Early Mormon Documents. Edited by Dan Vogel. Vol. 2. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998. viii + 592 pp. $44.95 cloth. Broadening the scope of Vogel's first volume, which traced the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View.
March 1, 2000... Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. 2d ed. By D. Michael Quinn. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998. xl + 646 pp. $19.95 paper. In 1985 three bombs exploded in Salt Lake City, Utah, one killing Kathy Sheets (the wife of a local...

From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet.
March 1, 2000... From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. By Valeen Tippetts Avery. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv + 362 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. David Hyrum Smith, the last son of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was...

Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny.
March 1, 2000... Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny. By Janet Bennion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 178 pp. $29.95 cloth. In Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny, Janet...

Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform.
March 1, 2000... Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. By Andrew Billingsley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvii + 262 pp. $26.00 cloth. Mighty Like a River documents the history of social activism in African-American church...

For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood.
March 1, 2000... For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. By Sandy Dwayne Martin. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xxiv + 248 pp. $39.95 cloth. Sandy Dwayne Martin has written the...

Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church.
March 1, 2000... Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church. By William Seraile. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xiv + 242 pp. $32.50 cloth. Few would deny the significance of the African Methodist Episcopal...

Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940.
March 1, 2000... Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940. By Robert Gregg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xvi + 272 pp. $19.95 paper. Robert Gregg's Sparks from the Anvil of...

The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940.
March 1, 2000... The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940. By Ingrid Overacker. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1998. x + 230 pp. $49.50 cloth. Ingrid Overacker has produced a very well written, amply...

Bishop Francis Hodur: Biographical Essays.
March 1, 2000... Bishop Francis Hodur: Biographical Essays. By Joseph Wieczerzak. Edited by Theodore L. Zawistowski. Eastern European Monographs 73. Boulder: distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998. 312 pp. n.p. Francis Hodur, founder and first prime...

Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America.
March 1, 2000... Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. By Perry Bush. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv + 362 pp. $39.95 cloth. There are several things one needs to know about this book before one begins...

Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands.
March 1, 2000... Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. By Loyal Jones. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 245 pp. $44.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. Loyal Jones is the retired director of the Berea College Appalachian Center and arguably...

American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving.
March 1, 2000... American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. By Christian Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv + 310 pp. $16.00 paper. Christian Smith, assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel...

After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.
March 1, 2000... After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s. By Robert Wuthnow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x + 278 pp. $29.95 cloth. Robert Wuthnow's work has been indispensable for public discussion of religion in America...

Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration.
March 1, 2000... Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration. Edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. vi + 410 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. In his introduction,...

With Liberty for All: Freedom of Religion in the United States.
March 1, 2000... With Liberty for All: Freedom of Religion in the United States. By Phillip E. Hammond. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998. xvi + 128 pp. $16.00 paper. Philip E. Hammond's brief survey of the debate over the First Amendment to the...

American Religion: Literary Sources and Documents.
March 1, 2000... American Religion: Literary Sources and Documents. Edited by David Turley. Mountfield, U.K.: Helm Information, 1998. Helm Information Literary Sources and Documents. 3 vols. xx + 455 pp.; x + 440 pp.; x + 586 pp. $375.00 cloth. ...

The Fire of Tongues: Antonio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal.
March 1, 2000... The Fire of Tongues: Antonio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal. By Thomas M. Cohen. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii + 266 pp. $49.50 cloth. Cohen's study is an exhaustive analysis of the sermons,...

Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870 to 1918.
March 1, 2000... Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870 to 1918. By James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xxiv + 274 pp. $49.95...

The Missionary Factor in Ethiopia: Papers from a Symposium on the Impact of European Missions on Ethiopian Society, Lund University, August 1996.
March 1, 2000... The Missionary Factor in Ethiopia: Papers from a Symposium on the Impact of European Missions on Ethiopian Society, Lund University, August 1996. Edited by Getatchew Haile, Aasulv Lande, and Samuel Rubenson. Studies in the Intercultural History...

Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East: The Challenge of the Future.
March 1, 2000... Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East: The Challenge of the Future. Edited by Andrea Pacini. Translated by Fiona Tupper-Carey. New York: Clarendon, 1998. xv + 365 pp. $80.00 cloth. When American congregations burst forth with "Give...