Church History articles from March 2004

Church History archives from March 2004

"Enamelled with the blood of a noble lineage": tracing noble blood and female holiness in early modern Neapolitan convents and their architecture (1).
March 1, 2004... The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern...

Cura religionis or two kingdoms: the late Luther on religion and the state in the lectures on Genesis (1).
March 1, 2004... In 1996, Bernhard Lohse wondered if the Luther presented by some would recognize the Luther described by others. (2) Trying to recognize the "political" Luther would be especially difficult. On the one hand, Thomas Muntzer was but the first in...

Defining the Puritans? the baptism debate in Cromwellian Ireland, 1654-56.
March 1, 2004... In May 1653, John Murcot, a well-connected Merton College Oxford graduate, travelled to Cork to preach at the request of local Puritans. (1) As a minister adhering to the Independent system of church order, he had already faced a series of...

Protestant solidarity in the eighteenth century: relief efforts of the Walloons for the Polish reformed churches.
March 1, 2004... The connections between the Polish Reformed Churches and the Dutch Eglises Wallonnes have never been properly examined. Apart from a few notes in articles from the beginning of the twentieth century, (1) no attempt has been made to describe...

Clergy and the care of the insane in eighteenth-century Britain (1).
March 1, 2004... Writers on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England have stressed the significance of doctors and clergy in the provision of residential care for the better-off mad person. "The private madhouse trade in fact started with the practice of...

The whore of Babylon and the abomination of abominations: nineteenth-century catholic and Mormon mutual perceptions and religious identity (1).
March 1, 2004... In 1846, Oran Brownson, the older brother of the famed Catholic convert Orestes A. Brownson, penned a letter to his brother recounting a dream Orestes had shared with him much earlier. In the dream, Orestes, Oran, and a third brother, Daniel,...

Conduits of faith: Reinhold Niebuhr's liturgical thought.
March 1, 2004... The mid twentieth century was an important period of theological and liturgical change for mainline Protestants. Theologically, the optimistic liberalism of the turn of the century came under sharp critique from a variety of theologians who...

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity. By Rebecca Krawiec. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 248 pp. $49.95 cloth. Shenoute was a hugely important figure in the world of Egyptian...

A History of Women and Ordination, Vol. 1: The Ordination of Women in a Medieval Context.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... A History of Women and Ordination, Vol. 1: The Ordination of Women in a Medieval Context. Edited by Bernard J. Cooke and Gary Macy. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2002. xiv + 184 pp. $55.00 cloth. The flagship volume in a series well worth...

From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200. By Rachel Fulton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xx + 676 pp. $40.00 cloth. This is an extremely ambitious book--so much so that one may fairly say...

Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Elisabeth van Houts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xii + 196 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In recent years, historians have uncovered how memory shaped monastic spirituality and rhetorical education, as young men learned...

Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Stephen E. Lahey. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, 54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 237 pp. $60.00 cloth. The English theologian John Wyclif first ran afoul of ecclesiastical authorities...

Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c 1920-2000.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Bruce Mansfield. Erasmus Studies 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xiv + 324 pp. $70.00 cloth. Every graduate student beginning a major research project in Erasmus studies and every scholar with expertise in this field...

Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615).(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Irena Backus. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 94. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xii + 416 pp. 116.00 [euro] cloth; $135.00 cloth. With her usual thorough, exhaustive research and precise analysis, Irena Backus engages the...

Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop and Calvin W. Redekop. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 249 pp. $39.95 cloth. Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition focuses on a critical issue in the study of Anabaptism:...

The Case against Johann Reuchlin: Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xvi + 174 pp. $50.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. In 1509 Johann Pfefferkorn, a Jewish convert to Christianity, sought permission to confiscate and destroy Jewish books. Esteemed German...

Religion and Culture in Germany (1400-1800).(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Religion and Culture in Germany (1400-1800).By R. W. Scribner, Edited by Lyndal Roper, Preface by Thomas A. Brady, Jr. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xviii + 380 pp. $143.00 cloth. The field of Reformation Studies lost one of its most...

Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. By Philip Benedict. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi + 670 pp. $50.00 cloth This book is impressive both for its scope and for its erudition. Benedict has...

Adrian IV, The English Pope (1154-1159): Studies and Texts.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Adrian IV, The English Pope (1154-1159): Studies and Texts. Edited by Brenda Bolton and Anne J. Duggan. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. xvi + 343 pp. $84.95 cloth. Pope Adrian IV is largely...

Reformation in Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Reformation in Britain and Ireland. By Felicity Heal. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 568 pp. $125.00 cloth. This volume is a worthy inclusion in this distinguished series, forming a...

The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy," and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy," and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. By Peter Lake. Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. x + 422 pp....

The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith. By David C. Downing. Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2002. 192 pp. $16.00 cloth. Downing's well-written account of C. S. Lewis's journey to faith provides insight into the...

Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. By Colin Duriez. Mahwah, N.J.: Hidden Spring, 2003. xii + 244 pp. $15.00 paper. Colin Duriez's narrative spans the lives of both Tolkien and Lewis, but his emphasis falls on their...

Irish Preaching 700-1700.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Irish Preaching 700-1700. Edited by Alan J. Fletcher and Raymond Gillespie. Dublin: Four Courts, 2001. 154 pp. $55.00 cloth. The study of preaching "has been largely neglected in the Irish context"; this "initial exploration of a large...

The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: All Sorts and Conditions.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: All Sorts and Conditions. Edited by Raymond Gillespie and W. G. Neely. Dublin: Four Courts, 2002. xvi + 368 pp. $50.00 cloth. A casual glance at its title might well give the impression that...

Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865. By Colin Barr. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xvi + 288 pp. $30.00 paper. Newman's Idea of the University is remembered long after...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Called by God.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Called by God. By Elizabeth Raum. New York: Continuum, 2002. 184 pp. $21.95 cloth. Elizabeth Raum has lucidly recounted once again the intriguing life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This brief work heavily relies on the...

Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith. By Joseph R. Fornieri. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. ix + 209 pp. $38.00 cloth. The past fifteen years have witnessed significant--and positive--developments in the field of Lincoln...

How the Jesuits Settled in New York: A Documentary Account.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... How the Jesuits Settled in New York: A Documentary Account. By Thomas C. Hennessy, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. xii + 286 pp. $24.00 paper. Based on letters, diaries, and other documents preserved chiefly in the archives...

God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860. Edited by Mark A. Noll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 313 pp. $49.95 cloth; $21.95 paper. In his introduction to this collection of essays, Noll states "money...

Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne M. Verplank. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xiv + 394 pp. $35.00 cloth. Quakers purchased...

Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America. By Elizabeth Elkin Grammer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 211 pp. $39.95 cloth. Despite the persistent presence of women...

Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Salvation Army.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Salvation Army. By Andrew Mark Eason. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003. xiv + 242 pp. $34.95 paper. William Booth allegedly quipped that some of his best men were women,...

Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. By Julia Kasdorf. The C. Henry Smith Series, 4. Telford, Penn.: Pandora, 2002. 280 pp. $22.95 paper. Fixing Tradition is the biography of a marginal man. Joseph Yoder was born in Mifflin...

Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History. By R. Laurence Moore. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2003. x + 195 pp. $19.95 paper. Religion, R. Laurence Moore argues, is always about something else....

Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life. Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer. Religion and American Culture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. x + 148 pp. $24.95 cloth. This...

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power. By David Harrington Watt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 165 pp. $29.95 cloth. David Harrington Watt, an associate professor of history at Temple...

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. By William R. Hutchison. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. xi + 276 pp. $29.00 cloth. Since the founding of the republic, Americans have championed...

Religion in American Life: A Short History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Religion in American Life: A Short History. By Jon Butler, Grant Wacker, and Randall Balmer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 525 pp. $35.00 cloth. This age in which we contemporary academics live has been one of scholarly...

Pope John Paul II, Prophetic Politician.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Pope John Paul II, Prophetic Politician. By Jo Renee Formicola. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002. viii + 264 pp. $19.95 paper. Jo Renee Formicola, a professor of political science at Seton Hall University, offers here a...

The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and Their Related Movements.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and Their Related Movements. Edited by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies, 14. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2002. xxiv + 301 pp. $75.00 cloth. In 2000, a conference on the global...

Christian Millennialism: From the Early Church to Waco.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Christian Millennialism: From the Early Church to Waco. Edited by Stephen Hunt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii + 258 pp. $49.95 cloth; $21.95 paper. As the title suggests, this interesting collection of essays explores...