Church History articles from March 2005

Church History archives from March 2005

The heretic saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate (1).
March 1, 2005... High above Lake Como in Lombardy, overlooking the cathedral city of Como and the southwestern branch of the lake, looms the tiny village of Brunate. It is a picturesque spot, beloved of mountain climbers, which enjoyed a brief heyday as a...

The Scottish Witchcraft Act.
March 1, 2005... Few acts of the Scottish parliament can have had such deadly consequences as the following, passed on June 4, 1563: Anentis Witchcraftis. ITEM Forsamekill as the Quenis Majestie and thre Estatis in this present Parliament...

Watchman Nee and the Little Flock Movement in Maoist China (1).
March 1, 2005... The experience of Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng) and the Christian Assembly (Jidutu juhuichu or Jidutu juhuisuo) in Mainland China after the Communist Revolution of 1949 reveals the complexity of church and state relations in the early 1950s....

What would Jesus do? Sexuality and salvation in protestant evangelical sex manuals, 1950s to the present.
March 1, 2005... God's Word is like His spiritual sperm. Knowing what we do about genetics, we could even say that, like the genes carried in the head of a sperm, God's Word carries God's characteristics. So, for you to be "born again," God's Word, His sperm,...

The Indian Church in Context: Her Emergence, Growth, and Mission.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Indian Church in Context: Her Emergence, Growth, and Mission. Edited by Mark T. B. Laing. Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2002. xiv + 269 pp. $18.00 paper. Christians of India. By Rowena Robinson. New Delhi:...

Constantine and Rome.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Constantine and Rome. By R. Ross Holloway. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xvii + 192 pp. Bibliography, index, black-and-white illustrations. $35.00 cloth. R. Ross Holloway, the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Central...

Wandering, Begging Monks. Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Wandering, Begging Monks. Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. By Daniel Caner. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xv + 325 pp. $65.00 cloth. ...

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler. Magic in History Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xiv + 255 pp. $55.00 cloth;...

The Practice of Penance, 900-1050.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Practice of Penance, 900-1050. By Sarah Hamilton. Royal Historical Society: Studies in History. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell, 2001. xiv + 275 pp. $75.00 cloth. Standard accounts of the development of penance in the early Middle...

Medieval Virginities.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Medieval Virginities. Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xiv + 296 pp. $50.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. As the title of this collection suggests, "virginity" can no longer be examined...

Eloquent Virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Eloquent Virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc. By Maud Burnett McInerney. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ix + 250 pp. $45.00 cloth. Virgins and martyrs are clearly people out of control--the virgin rejects the...

France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Edited by Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney. Re-visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 375 pp. Illustrations. $ 44.95...

Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140-1540.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140-1540. By Dianne Hall. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003. 255 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. The past thirty years have seen a major growth in studies of the role of women in the...

Selling the Church. The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Selling the Church. The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550. By Robert C. Palmer. Studies in Legal History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 330 pp. $49.95 cloth. What contribution to our...

From Radicals to Survivors: Strasbourg's Religious Nonconformists over Two Generations 1525-1570.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... From Radicals to Survivors: Strasbourg's Religious Nonconformists over Two Generations 1525-1570. By John D. Derksen. Bibliotheca Humanistica and Reformatorica 61. Utrecht: Hes and de Graaf, 2002. 294 pp. 143.10 [euro] cloth. This study of...

Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany. By Jeffrey Chipps Smith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 261 pp. $49.95 cloth. The subject of this book is the role that architecture...

John Selden. Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... John Selden. Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England. By Reid Barbour. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. x + 417 pp. $70.00 cloth; 42 [pounds sterling] cloth. Given John Selden's towering presence in the...

Reforming French Protestantism: The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 1557-1572.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Reforming French Protestantism: The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 1557-1572. By Glenn S. Sunshine. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 66. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2003. xiv + 193 pp. $49.95 cloth....

Caritas et Reformatio: Essays on Church and Society in Honor of Carter Lindberg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Caritas et Reformatio: Essays on Church and Society in Honor of Carter Lindberg. By David M. Whitford. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, 2004. 270 pp. $34.99 cloth. In this festschrift, David Whitford has assembled an impressive and broad-ranging...

Anabaptist-Mennonite Confessions of Faith: the Development of a Tradition.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Anabaptist-Mennonite Confessions of Faith: The Development of a Tradition. By Karl Koop. Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies 3. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora, 2004. 178 pp. $22.00 cloth. This monograph, drawn from Koop's doctoral dissertation,...

Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland: the Dominican Order, 1450-1560.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland: The Dominican Order, 1450-1560. By Janet P. Foggie. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 95. Boston: Brill, 2003. xii + 343 pp. $139.00 cloth. Janet Foggie tries and succeeds in filling a...

The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation. By Alec Ryrie. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 306 pp. $65.00 cloth. The perennial tension...

William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577. By Brett Usher. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xx + 246 pp. $84.95 cloth. This book offers a good deal more than a circumscribed study of William Cecil...

Politics in the Order of Salvation: Transforming Wesleyan Political Ethics.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Politics in the Order of Salvation: Transforming Wesleyan Political Ethics. By Theodore R. Weber. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, Kingswood Books, 2001. 483 pp. $35.00 paper. How should a Methodist, precisely as a Methodist, engage in...

The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Oxford Movement. A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times. By C. Brad Faught. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xii + 184 pp. $29.95 cloth. Mr. Brad Faught, a Toronto-based historian and...

Consuming the Past: the Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siecle France. By Elizabeth Emery and Laura Morowitz. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 295 pp. $99.95 cloth. This generously illustrated volume explores France's fascination with the...

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine. By Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003. xvi + 216 pp. $27.95 paper. That religion has, in the last four centuries, come to be an inseparable...

The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961. By Ian Ker. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2003. xii. + 231 pp. $60.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. This latest book by Fr. Ker is a series of cognate essays on Catholic...

Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian. Edited by Paul Helm and Oliver D. Crisp. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. xvi + 165 pp. $69.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. This collection of essays in honor of the tercentenary of Jonathan Edwards's...

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xiv + 328 pp. $29.95 cloth. Frank Lambert has written a retrospective analysis of what he believes can account...

Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. viii + 271 pp. $38.00 cloth. Too often, American religious historians have taken twentieth-century evangelicals'...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: the Making of a Democratic Intellectual.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. By Peter S. Field. American Intellectual Culture Series. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xiv + 272 pp. $36.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Field notes at the start that there...

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance. By Arthur Versluis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 234 pp. $45.00 cloth. Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman,...

On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches. By H. Henrietta Stockel. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xxii + 314 pp. $29.95 cloth. H. Henrietta Stockel is an "independent scholar" (says a...

Adventism and the American Republic: the Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement. By Douglas Morgan. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. xvi + 269 pp. $32.00 cloth. The years of the Great Disappointment, 1843 and...

Waiting for Elijah: a History of the Megiddo Mission.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Waiting for Elijah: A History of the Megiddo Mission. By Gari-Anne Patzwald. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. xviii + 262 pp. $30.00 cloth. With this well-written book, Gari-Anne Patzwald examines the Megiddo Mission, a...

In the Light of the Word: Divine Word Missionaries of North America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... In the Light of the Word: Divine Word Missionaries of North America. By Ernest Brandewie. American Society of Missiology Series 29. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2000. xviii + 408 pp. $40.00 paper. Published to commemorate the centenary of...

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: a Holy Impatience.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience. By Warren Goldstein. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xiii + 379 pp. $30.00 cloth. This is a biography of the highest quality, interest, and importance. With graceful writing and...

The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement. By Bradley C. Whitsel. Religion and Politics. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xviii + 221 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. The study of...

FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945. Edited by David B. Woolen and Richard G. Kurial. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xviiii + 295 pp. $59.95 cloth. A welcome addition to The World of the Roosevelts...

The Amish in the American Imagination.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Amish in the American Imagination. By David Weaver-Zercher. Center Books in Anabaptist Studies. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xviii + 280 pp. $39.95 cloth. In his meticulously researched and engaging book,...

Religion and the Cold War.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Religion and the Cold War. Edited by Dianne Kirby. Cold War History Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xiii + 247 pp. $72.00 cloth. The thirteen essays in this collection address the largely neglected but immensely important impact...

The Quakers in America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Quakers in America. By Thomas D. Hamm. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x + 293 pp. $40.00 cloth. "We have an abundance of thoughtful and articulate books offering their...

"On the Journey Home": the History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... "On the Journey Home": The History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968. By J. Steven O'Malley. United Methodist Church History of Mission Series. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church,...

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. By Ralph C. Wood. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 2004. xii + 284 pp. $22.00 cloth. Ralph Wood's book delivers on its promise to "demonstrate the immense social and religious relevance...

Evangelicals and the Continental Divide: the Conservative Protestant Subculture in Canada and the United States.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Evangelicals and the Continental Divide: The Conservative Protestant Subculture in Canada and the United States. By Sam Reimer. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xvi + 232...

The American Church Experience: a Concise History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The American Church Experience: A Concise History. By Thomas A. Askew and Richard V. Pierard. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2004. 288 pp. $21.99 paper. The worst thing you can say about this book is that there is nothing new in it....

Moral Evil and Redemptive Suffering: a History of Theodicy in African-American Religious Thought.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Moral Evil and Redemptive Suffering: A History of Theodicy in African-American Religious Thought. Edited by Anthony B. Pinn. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2302. x + 374 pp. $55.00 cloth. Anthony B. Pinn has become widely known...

Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940. By Jeffrey Cox. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xvi + 357 pp. $60.00 cloth. Historians of religion have long recognized the value of the...

The Two Reformations: the Journey from the Last Days to the New World.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New World. By Heiko A. Oberman. Edited by Donald Weinstein. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. xx + 235 pp. $37.50 cloth. Heiko Augustinus Oberman died of cancer on...

Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. By Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. x + 309 pp. $35.00 cloth. The authors of this well-written and insightful book attribute the roots...

Catholic Social Teaching 1891-Present: a Historical, Theological, and Ethical Analysis.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Catholic Social Teaching 1891-Present: A Historical, Theological, and Ethical Analysis. By Charles E. Curran. Moral Traditions Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002. x + 261 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Catholic...

The Bible as Book: the Transmission of the Greek Text.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text. Edited by Scott McKendrick and Orlaith O'Sullivan. London: The British Library, 2003. xii + 260 pp. $60.00 cloth. This is a very handsome, and lively, collection of essays organized...

Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation. By Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xviii + 192 pp. $29.95 cloth. This volume, the product of a yearlong seminar at Messiah...

Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History. By Peter N. Stearns. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. viii + 120 pp. $35.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. In this slim volume Peter N. Stearns illustrates...