Church History articles from September 1999

Church History archives from September 1999

The Restoration Bishops and the Royal Supremacy.
September 1, 1999... Among the defining traits of Restoration politics was a degree of hostility between the royal court and the English episcopate unprecedented since the Reformation. A long pattern of cooperation between the king and bishops was broken after...

John Hutchinson's Critique of Newtonian Heterodoxy.
September 1, 1999... "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be!--and all was light," according to Alexander Pope. Other British subjects were not so sure. In recent years, historians have begun to take more seriously the persons who...

The Relationship of Religious Practice to Linguistic Culture: Language, Religion, and Education in Alsace and the Roussillon, 1860-1890.
September 1, 1999... I. LANGUAGE AND RELIGION The revolutionary and legislator Bertrand Barrere in his Sur les idiomes etrangers et l' enseignement de la langue francaise had said, "Federalism and superstition speak Breton; emigration and hatred of the...

Rum, Romanism, and Evangelism: Protestants and Catholics in Late-Nineteenth-Century Boston.
September 1, 1999... On the morning of Wednesday, May 20, 1885, Boston police arrested three Protestant clergymen for preaching on the Common. News of the outrage traveled quickly, and within hours the city's evangelical Protestants were in an uproar. When the...

"Latter Rain" Falling in the East: Early-Twentieth-Century Pentecostalism in India and the Debate over Speaking in Tongues.
September 1, 1999... Looking back at the events that led up to the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles, California, the foremost revival of the century in terms of global impact, eyewitness Frank Bartleman announced that the "revival was rocked in the cradle of...

The Apostle.
September 1, 1999... Robert Duvall's film The Apostle initially raised the eyebrows of those concerned with how popular film might portray religious topics. However, suspicions that this film would be another expose attempting to cash in on the public's fascination...

A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence.
September 1, 1999... A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence. By Jeffrey Burton Russell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi + 220 pp. $24.95 cloth. Jeffrey Burton Russell, known for his research on the devil, redirects his scholarly energies...

Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times.
September 1, 1999... Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times. Edited by Roelof van den Broek and Wouter J. Hanegraaff. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. x + 402 pp. $24.95 paper. The...

The Journey of the Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian Story.
September 1, 1999... The Journey of the Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian Story. By Richard C. Trexler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv + 277 pp. $37.50 cloth. In a little more than two hundred pages, Richard Trexler takes us on a grand...

When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered.
September 1, 1999... When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered. By Ross Shepard Kraemer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx + 366 pp. $60.00 cloth. It is difficult thing to dismantle...

The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity.
September 1, 1999... The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity. By Teresa M. Shaw. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. xii + 308 pp. $27.00 paper. Lucid and learned, Teresa Shaw's Burden of the Flesh adds new flavor to what is already a...

Marcella--Discipula et Magistra: Auf den Spuren einer romischen Christin des 4. Jahrhunderts.
September 1, 1999... Marcella--Discipula et Magistra: Auf den Spuren einer romischen Christin des 4. Jahrhunderts. By Silvia Letsch-Brunner. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der alteren Kirche 91. Berlin: de Gruyter,...

Maximus I von Turin: Die Verkundigung eines Bishofs der fruhen Reichskirche im zeitgechichtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und liturgischen Kontext.
September 1, 1999... Maximus I von Turin: Die Verkundigung eines Bishofs der fruhen Reichskirche im zeitgechichtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und liturgischen Kontext. By Andreas Merkt. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 40. London: Brill, 1997. xviii + 342 pp....

Une Eglise de renouveau: Reformes et reformateurs, de Charlemagne a Jean Hus, 750-1415.
September 1, 1999... Une Eglise de renouveau: Reformes et reformateurs, de Charlemagne a Jean Hus, 750-1415. By Paul Amargier. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1998. 301 pp. n.p. The title tells the story: to see the church as permanent reform over seven centuries and...

Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200.
September 1, 1999... Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200. By Heinrich Fichtenau. Translated by Denise A. Kaiser. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. viii + 403 pp. $45.00 cloth. Heresy in the Middle Ages is a topic...

Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400.
September 1, 1999... Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400. By J. M. M. H. Thijssen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xiv + 194 pp. $35.00 cloth. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a number of suspect...

The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions.
September 1, 1999... The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions. By Calvin B. Kendall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xvi + 401 pp. $75.00 cloth. Calvin Kendall "examines Romanesque portals through the lens of the...

Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society.
September 1, 1999... Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society. Edited by Michael Goodich. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. viii + 272 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.50 paper. Michael Goodich is professor of history at the...

Masaccio's "Trinity".
September 1, 1999... Masaccio's "Trinity." Edited by Rona Goffen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x + 166 pp. $49.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. This small book is the most recent volume in the series Masterpieces of Western Painting, which Cambridge...

Peter Aureol on Predestination: A Challenge to Late Medieval Thought.
September 1, 1999... Peter Aureol on Predestination: A Challenge to Late Medieval Thought. By James L. Halverson, Studies in the History of Christian Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1998. viii + 188 pp. $90.50 cloth. Predestination proved to be one of the most...

The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna.
September 1, 1999... The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna. By , Howard Louthan. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 185 pp. $59.95 cloth. Howard Louthan's intriguing study...

Martin Luther: Learning for Life.
September 1, 1999... Martin Luther: Learning for Life. By Marilyn J. Harran. St. Louis: Concordia, 1997. 284 pp. $16.99 paper. This work approaches the interchange between past and present so intentionally that it amounts to intellectual autobiography. The...

From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man.
September 1, 1999... From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man. By Peter Blickle. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 65. Leiden: Brill, 1998. x + 225 pp. n.p. Peter Blickle first captured widespread scholarly attention in 1975...

The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany.
September 1, 1999... The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany. By Susan Karant-Nunn. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 1997. x + 282 pp. $85.00 cloth. A fitting eulogy to the pathbreaking historian of...

Deutsche Spataufklarung und Pietismus: Ihr Verhaltnis im Rahmen Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822).
September 1, 1999... Deutsche Spataufklarung und Pietismus: Ihr Verhaltnis im Rahmen Kirchlich-Burgerlicher Reform bei Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822). By Hans-Martin Kirn. Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus 34. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1998. 616 pp....

Otto Dibelius: Ein Kirchenmann in der Zeit zwischen Monarchie und Diktatur.
September 1, 1999... Otto Dibelius: Ein Kirchenmann in der Zeit zwischen Monarchie und Diktatur. By Hartmut Fritz. Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte 27. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1998. 641 pp. cloth This study of Otto Dibelius focuses on his...

Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth: A Study in Biography and the History of Theology.
September 1, 1999... Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth: A Study in Biography and the History of Theology. By Suzanne Selinger. Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. x + 206 pp. $45.00...

Ioannis Calvini Opera Exegetica. Vol. 19: Commentarius in Epistolam ad Hebraeos.
September 1, 1999... Ioannis Calvini Opera Exegetica. Vol. 19: Commentarius in Epistolam ad Hebraeos. By John Calvin. Edited by T. H. L. Parker. Geneva: Droz, 1996. xlvi + 268. n.p. The new series of critical editions of Calvin's exegetical works continues to...

Justice et religion en Languedoc au temps de l'Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679).
September 1, 1999... Justice et religion en Languedoc au temps de l'Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679). By Stephane Capot. Memoires et Documents de l'Ecole des Chartes 52. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 1998. 427 pp. Fr 200 paper. Recent...

Louis Veuillot.
September 1, 1999... Louis Veuillot. By Pierre Pierrard. With an account by Emile Poulat. Paris: Beauchesne, 1998. x +273 pp. Fr 180 paper. Louis Veuillot is one of the neglected figures of nineteenth-century French Catholicism. During his lifetime, Veuillot...

Religion and Society in Early Stuart England.
September 1, 1999... Religion and Society in Early Stuart England. By Darren Oldridge. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. viii + 172 pp. $59.95 cloth. Darren Oldridge leaves the reader in no doubt about his position on the contentious religious issues dividing early...

The English Reformation and the Laity, Gloucestershire, 1540-1580.
September 1, 1999... The English Reformation and the Laity, Gloucestershire, 1540-1580. By Caroline Litzenberger. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii + 218 pp. $54.95 cloth. It is an instructive...

Robert Parsons and English Catholicism, 1580-1610.
September 1, 1999... Robert Parsons and English Catholicism, 1580-1610. By Michael Carrafiello. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1998. 186 pp. $34.50 cloth. This book describes the efforts of an important character on the international stage to...

The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science.
September 1, 1999... The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science. By Peter Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 313 pp. $64.95 cloth. The Book of Nature, as contrasted with the Book of God's Words, is a familiar metaphor to...

The Idea of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: Tithes and the Individual.
September 1, 1999... The Idea of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: Tithes and the Individual. By Laura Brace. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. vii + 184 pp. $79.95 cloth. Laura Brace...

The Matter and Manner of Praise: The Controversial Evolution of Hymnody in the Church of England, 1760-1820.
September 1, 1999... The Matter and Manner of Praise: The Controversial Evolution of Hymnody in the Church of England, 1760-1820. By Thomas K. McCart. Drew Studies in Liturgy 5. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. xvii + 153 pp. $49.50 cloth. Thomas McCart...

Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885.
September 1, 1999... Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885. By Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. Madison, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. 197 pp. $36.00 cloth. In a monograph notable for concise summaries and...

Acton and History.
September 1, 1999... Acton and History. By Owen Chadwick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 270 pp. $49.95 cloth. Owen Chadwick, the most outstanding living modern church historian, is still going strong, publishing original works while...

Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers.
September 1, 1999... Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers. Edited by Julie Melnyk. Literature and Society in Victorian Britain 3. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2055. New York: Garland, 1998. xviii +...

Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England.
September 1, 1999... Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. By Joss Marsh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii + 436 pages. $55.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. One staple of postmodern cultural studies involves the...

The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945.
September 1, 1999... The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945. By Jonathan C. Friedman. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. x + 292 pp. $34.95 cloth. Jonathan Friedman's The Lion and the Star uses a detailed...

The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters.
September 1, 1999... The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters. By Pavel Florensky. Translated by Boris Jakim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xxiv + 595 pp. $49.50 cloth. Pavel Florensky's work The Pillar...

The Battle Over Hermeneutics in the Stone-Campbell Movement, 1800-1870.
September 1, 1999... The Battle Over Hermeneutics in the Stone-Campbell Movement, 1800-1870. By Michael W. Casey. Studies in American Religion 67. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1998. xii + 302 pp. $99.95 cloth. This account of attitudes toward Scripture in the...

In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot.
September 1, 1999... In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot. Edited by Harvard S. Heath. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1997. xxxiv + 794 pp. n.p. The diary entries made by Reed Smoot between 1909 and 1932 reveal a public servant, a Mormon leader, and a hectored...

The Interior Sense of Scripture: The Sacred Hermeneutics of John W. Nevin.
September 1, 1999... The Interior Sense of Scripture: The Sacred Hermeneutics of John W. Nevin. By William DiPuccio. Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 14. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. xii + 228 pp. $19.00 cloth. This volume is another...

Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present.
September 1, 1999... Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. By Ann Wagner. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 442 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. In this ambitious study, Ann Wagner attempts to "lay out the scope and substance...

The Revival of 1857-58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening.
September 1, 1999... The Revival of 1857-58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening. By Kathryn Teresa Long. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. iix + 258 pp. $45.00 cloth. "I Love to Tell the Story" has been a favorite hymn of American evangelicals...

Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelist.
September 1, 1999... Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelist. By Adrienne M. Israel. Studies in Evangelicalism 16. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998. xvi + 192 pp. n.p. Adrienne Israel's Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelist is welcome as...

Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom.
September 1, 1999... Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom. Edited by Leonard L. Bethel and Frederick A. Johnson. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998. xxvi + 146 pp. $32.50 cloth. This book examines black churches in...

Darwinism Comes to America.
September 1, 1999... Darwinism Comes to America. By Ronald L. Numbers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 216 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. The relationship of science and religion in American history has come under renewed scrutiny in...

Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962.
September 1, 1999... Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962. By Albert N. Keim. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald, 1998. 592 pp. $34.25 cloth; $23.99 paper. This impressive volume is in a real sense a biographical complement to the four-volume series Mennonite Experience in America,...

On Common Ground: World Religions in America.
September 1, 1999... On Common Ground: World Religions in America. By Diana Eck. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. CD-ROM. $195.00. Church history isn't what it used to be any more. Scholarship on religion in the United States was once confined largely...

Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination.
September 1, 1999... Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination. By Robert Bruce Mullin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. x + 322 pp. $35.00 cloth. In this thoughtful, wide-ranging study, Robert Bruce Mullin examines the changing fate of...

"As a Thief in the Night": The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliverance.
September 1, 1999... "As a Thief in the Night": The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliverance. By Dan Erickson. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1998. 278 pp. $34.95 cloth. While the story of the Mormons' tumultuous trek through American space is well known, Erickson...

New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library.
September 1, 1999... New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library. By Smith Research Associates. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1998. n.p. The appearance of this CD-ROM testifies that Mormon studies is "alive and well" on the eve of the twenty-first...

The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past.
September 1, 1999... The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past. By Russell M. Lawson. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. x + 173 pp. $55.00 cloth. The subject of this rather dogged biography is usually remembered as author...

Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore.
September 1, 1999... Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. By William R. Sutton. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xvi + 352 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. As the title suggests,...

The Theology of Inexpedience: Two Case Studies in "Moderate" Congregational Dissent in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
September 1, 1999... The Theology of Inexpedience: Two Case Studies in "Moderate" Congregational Dissent in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. By Jeffrey S. Nelson. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998. xviii + 160 pp. $39.00 cloth. This "tale of...

Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television.
September 1, 1999... Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television. By Christopher Owen Lynch. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xii + 204 pp. $24.95 cloth. The piercing gaze of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen met viewers through the...

The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity.
September 1, 1999... The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity. By Manuel A Vasquez. Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 300. $64.95 cloth. This book presents itself on several levels;...

The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America.
September 1, 1999... The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America. Edited by Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. x + 246 pp. $40.00 paper. This important anthology collects...

Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.
September 1, 1999... Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. By Gauri Viswanathan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xx + 332 pp. $55.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. Postcolonial theory has little amity for the modern state and still less for...

The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism.
September 1, 1999... The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism. By Adrian Hastings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 236 pp. $59.95 cloth. Recent events have placed the interplay of ethnicity, religion and...

The Craft of Religious Studies.
September 1, 1999... The Craft of Religious Studies. Edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xvi + 335 pp. $45.00 cloth. The editor of this book, Jon R. Stone, opens with conventional wisdom about the academic study of religion. Religion, he...

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions.
September 1, 1999... Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Edited by Gerald H. Anderson. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998. xxviii + 845 pp. $100.00 cloth. "The chief end of biography is to embalm virtue and perpetuate usefulness," wrote the Rev....

Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements.
September 1, 1999... Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. Edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 1997. x + 334 pp. $75.00 cloth; $19.99 paper. The approach of the year 2000 and a new millennium has...

SOCIETY NOTES.
September 1, 1999... MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY The Council of the American Society of Church History convened at 3:00 p.m., on April 22, 1999, in the History/Political Science Forum Building at Point Loma Nazarene...