Church History articles from March 2001

Church History archives from March 2001

Awards of the American Society of Church History:.
March 1, 2001... 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...

Church History as Vocation and Moral Discipline.
March 1, 2001... I should like to acknowledge at the outset that I harbor no grandiose illusions about the import of what I will say this afternoon.(1) As any veteran of annual meetings readily knows, presidential addresses are a time-honored ritual in the life...

The Making of Monastic Demonology: Three Ascetic Teachers on Withdrawal and Resistance.
March 1, 2001... Although in recent years fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism has received much scholarly attention of increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, conflict with demons, a primary metaphor for the ascetic life in the...

"Her Duty to Canada": Henriette Feller and French Protestantism in Quebec.
March 1, 2001... George McTaggart's house sits across the road from the tiny clapboard Baptist church, the only landmark in the postage-stamp sized, rural town of Saint-Blaise, Quebec, a town where, as inhabitants confide, "Protestants and Catholics have always...

The Forgotten Origins of the Ecumenical Movement in England: The Grindelwald Conferences, 1892-95.
March 1, 2001... Ruth Rouse, writing in A History of the Ecumenical Movement, made an extraordinary claim about the origins of modern ecumenism. She identified two factors in the 1890s that, in her words, "changed the course of Church history and made possible...

Anti-Catholicism in Germany, Britain, and the United States: A Review and Critique of Recent Scholarship.
March 1, 2001... The past two decades have seen an efflorescence of works exploring cultural anti-Catholicism in a variety of national contexts. But so far, historians have engaged in little comparative analysis. This article is a first step, examining recent...

The "Secularization" Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
March 1, 2001... To Our Readers: With this issue Church History inaugurates a regular feature to be called "Perspectives." The aim is to offer authors an opportunity to address significant questions in a format that is somewhat shorter, less formal, and...

Health Care and the Rise of Christianity.
March 1, 2001... Health Care and the Rise of Christianity. By Hector Avalos. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999. x + 166 pp. n.p. "The ideas of health care reflected in early Christianity constitute a system that was an important factor in attracting...

Women and Christian Origins.
March 1, 2001... Women and Christian Origins. Edited by Ross Kraemer and Mary Rose d'Angelo. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 406 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Women and Christian Origins edited by Ross Shephard Kramer and Mary Rose d...

Christian Engagements with Judaism.
March 1, 2001... Christian Engagements with Judaism. By W. D. Davies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity, 1999. xxx + 321 pp. $29.00 cloth. This collection of previously published articles by W. D. Davies complements two earlier collections, Christian Origins and...

John Chrysostom.
March 1, 2001... John Chrysostom. Introduced and translated by Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen. The Early Church Fathers. New York: Routledge, 2000. x + 230 pp. $24.99 paper. The most recent installment of the Early Church Fathers Series is a collection of...

The Augustinian Tradition.
March 1, 2001... The Augustinian Tradition. Edited by Gareth B. Matthews. Philosophical Traditions 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xx + 398 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Editor Gareth B. Matthews has gathered together a world-class...

Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe.
March 1, 2001... Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe. By Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxiv + 267 pp. $59.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. Barbara Rosenwein's earlier work has...

Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis.
March 1, 2001... Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis. By William T. Flynn. Studies in Liturgical Musicology 8. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999. xxii + 269 pp. $55.00 cloth. In the eleventh century, the mass and the daily office, along with newly composed...

God Wills It! An Illustrated History of the Crusades.
March 1, 2001... God Wills It! An Illustrated History of the Crusades. By W. B. Bartlett. New York: Sutton, 1999. xiv + 274 pp. $39.95 cloth. Bartlett presents an easily readable narrative of the series of events leading to the creation and eventual...

Gallia Pontificia: La papaute et les eglises et monasteres en France avant 1198, Vol. 1: Diocese de Besancon.
March 1, 2001... Gallia Pontificia: La papaute et les eglises et monasteres en France avant 1198, Vol. 1: Diocese de Besancon. Edited by Bernard de Vregille, Rene Locatelli, and Gerard Moyse. Regesta Pontificum Romanorum. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,...

Pope Innocent III and His World.
March 1, 2001... Pope Innocent III and His World. Edited by John C. Moore. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. xx + 389 pp. $86.95 cloth. More than any Roman pontiff apart perhaps from Gregory VII, Innocent III had an immediate, profound, and lasting impact on...

Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination.
March 1, 2001... Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. By Peter S. Hawkins. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx + 378. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In refreshing contrast to the many studies that...

The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England.
March 1, 2001... The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England. By Curtis V. Bostick. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 70. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xii + 229 pp. $81.00 cloth. The study of Wycliffites or...

Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540.
March 1, 2001... Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540. By Nicholas Orme. Magdalen College Occasional Paper 4. Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998. xii +84 pp. 8.00 [pound sterling]. A student's plaintive request,...

Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583.
March 1, 2001... Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583. By Thomas Betteridge. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. x + 246 pp. $86.95 cloth. Thomas Betteridge has furnished in this volume a thoughtful and...

Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace.
March 1, 2001... Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace. By Christopher Marsh. Social History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. x + 258 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. This study of religious life in England during...

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England.
March 1, 2001... Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England. By Kenneth Charlton. New York: Routledge, 1999. ix + 332 pp. $65.00 cloth. In an era when book titles tend toward the snazzy and uninformative, Kenneth Charlton is to be commended for...

The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins.
March 1, 2001... The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins. By Dean Hammer. Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory 13. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. xxvi + 222 pp. $32.95 paper. For several...

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories.
March 1, 2001... The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. By J. L. Heilbron. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 366 pp. $35.00 cloth. Once in a while I find a book I wish I could have written. This is such a book....

Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion.
March 1, 2001... Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 226 pp. $38.00 cloth. The study of popular religion, although a growth area in recent...

The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible: S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906).
March 1, 2001... The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible: S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906). By Irene Eber. Studies in Christian Mission 22. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xvi + 287 pp. $113.00 cloth. Catholic papers in 1880 as there were in 1870. "Large S. I. J....

The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887.
March 1, 2001... The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887. By Ronald J. Ross. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xvi + 219 pp. $66.95 cloth. It is the thesis of Ronald Ross...

Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness.
March 1, 2001... Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness. By Thomas Albert Howard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 250 pp. $49.95...

Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler.
March 1, 2001... Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler. Edited by Frank J. Coppa. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1999. viii + 248 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. This analysis, focused on three...

Die evangelische Kinderpflege und die Innere Mission in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Mobilmachung der Gemeinden.
March 1, 2001... Die evangelische Kinderpflege und die Innere Mission in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Mobilmachung der Gemeinden, Band 1, 1933 bis 1937. By Rainer Bookhagen. Arbeiten zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte Reihe B: Darstellungen. Band 29....

Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti.
March 1, 2001... Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti. By Terry Rey. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World, 1999. x + 362 pp. $21.95 paper. Terry Rey has written an ambitious and deeply problematic book on social class and religion in...

Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power.
March 1, 2001... Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power. By Michele Dillon. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 289 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Given the Vatican's recent pronouncements, the author's optimistic outlook...

A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.
March 1, 2001... A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 511...

Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others.
March 1, 2001... Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others. By Gerald and Patricia Gutek. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. vi + 230 pp. $16.95 paper. Religious communitarian movements in America...

Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America.
March 1, 2001... Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America. Edited by Jacob H. Dorn. Contributions in American History 181. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,1998. xvi. + 252 pp. n.p. By the turn of the century, concluded K. S. Inglis in Churches...

The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith.
March 1, 2001... The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith. By David Edwin Harrell Jr. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2000. xx + 472 pp. $34.95 cloth. David Edwin Harrell Jr. first projected a...

When The Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
March 1, 2001... When The Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. By Donald E. Collins. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. xii + 178 pp. $29.95 cloth. Retired investment banker and former white...

Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity.
March 1, 2001... United Methodism and American Culture. Vol. 1, Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity. Edited by Russell E. Richey, Dennis M. Campbell, and William B. Lawrence. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997. viii + 364 pp. $20.00 paper. This...

The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life.
March 1, 2001... Vol. 2, The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life. Edited by William B. Lawrence, Dennis M. Campbell, and Russell E. Richey. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. viii + 339 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by...

Doctrines and Discipline.
March 1, 2001... Vol. 3, Doctrines and Discipline. Edited by Dennis M. Campbell, William B. Lawrence, and Russell E. Richey. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. viii + 364 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean of the Candler...

Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church.
March 1, 2001... Vol. 4, Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church. Edited by Russell E. Richey, William B. Lawrence, and Dennis M. Campbell. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. 343 pp. $20.00 paper. This ambitious series, edited by Russell E. Richey, Dean of...

The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource.
March 1, 2001... The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource. By David DiSabatino. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies 49. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. xiv + 257 pp. $69.50 cloth. David DiSabatino's...

PRIMARY SOURCES AND TEXTS IN TRANSLATION: BOOKS RECEIVED.
March 1, 2001... The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings. Edited by T. L. Underwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 260 pp. $49.95 cloth. Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected...