Church History articles from September 2001

Church History archives from September 2001

Women, Gender, and the Study of Christian History.
September 1, 2001... Anglo-Saxonist Allen Frantzen, addressing fellow medievalists in 1993, dismissed fears expressed by female colleagues that adopting the designation "gender studies" would signal a reinstatement of "familiar male canons while crowding hard-won...

Justin Martyr Invents Judaism.
September 1, 2001... The historiography of Judaism in the rabbinic period (together with its implications for the history of Christianity) had been, until quite recently, founded on the assumption that the kind of historical information that rabbinic legends could...

Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers: Assurance of Salvation and the Pastoral Origins of Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s.
September 1, 2001... The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in the early 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more...

From the "Land of Diverse Sects" to National Religion: Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland.
September 1, 2001... Religious conversion is undoubtedly one of the most-explored aspects of medieval and early modern social history. The fact that the literature concerning that problem is still significantly on the increase proves its scholarly importance. The...

The Regaining of Faith: Reconversions among Popular Radicals in Mid-Victorian England.
September 1, 2001... There is a wealth of literature on Victorian religious doubt, and much of it is structured by implicitly defining pure faith in the context of nineteenth-century England as an organized, traditional, orthodox, trinitarian, and supernatural...

PERSPECTIVES Two Centuries of Christianity in America: An Overview.
September 1, 2001... While the year 2000 did not prove to be the eschatological blockbuster that some of our bolder Bible prophecy popularizers anticipated, nor the year when all our computers melted down, as some Y2K alarmists predicted, it did provoke some...

Against the Christians: The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic.
September 1, 2001... Against the Christians: The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic. By Jeffrey W. Hargis. Patristic Studies 1. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. x + 173 pp. $44.95 paper. This book seeks to discover the rhetorical strategies by which pagan...

Contra Marcellum: Marcellus of Ancyra and Fourth-Century Theology.
September 1, 2001... Contra Marcellum: Marcellus of Ancyra and Fourth-Century Theology. By Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. Washington D.C.: CUA Press, 1999. xx + 280 pp. $59.95 cloth. Condemned and excommunicated by several fourth-century councils and synods,...

Euseb von Caesarea und die Juden: Studien zur Rolle der Juden in der Theologie des Eusebius von Caesarea.
September 1, 2001... Euseb von Caesarea und die Juden: Studien zur Rolle der Juden in der Theologie des Eusebius von Caesarea. By Jorg Ulrich. Patristische Texte und Studien 49. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. x + 324 pp. 198 DM cloth. In this revised version...

Histoire des liturgies chretiennes de la mort et des funerailles.
September 1, 2001... Histoire des liturgies chretiennes de la mort et des funerailles. By Philippe Rouillard. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1999. 216 pp. 140 francs. The first half of Rouillard's book consists of a historical essay of just over one hundred...

Encyclopedia of Monasticism.
September 1, 2001... Encyclopedia of Monasticism. 2 Vols. Edited by William M. Johnston. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. xxxiv + 1,556 pp. $295.00 cloth. The Encyclopedia of Monasticism is a massive achievement--literally and figuratively. The two heavy...

Young Medieval Women.
September 1, 2001... Young Medieval Women. Edited by Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xxi + 202 pp. $35.00 cloth. This beautifully produced volume attempts to carve out as a separate topic a section of...

Vision and Image in Early Christian England.
September 1, 2001... Vision and Image in Early Christian England. By George Henderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 292 pp. 8 color plates, 94 b.w. illus. $90.00 cloth. Henderson's introductory chapter provides a summation of the early...

The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography.
September 1, 2001... The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography. Edited by Margot E. Fassler and Rebecca A. Baltzer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxiv + 632 pp. $65.00 cloth. The...

The King Embodies the Word: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching.
September 1, 2001... The King Embodies the Word: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching. By Darleen Pryds. Studies in the History of Christian Thought 93. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xiv + 143 pp. n.p. In this attractively unpretentious study, Darleen Pryds...

Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500.
September 1, 2001... Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500. By Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner. Bibliotheca Historica 35. Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1999. 189 pp. FIM 150 paper. In central and northern Italy in...

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice.
September 1, 2001... Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice. By Jutta Gisela Sperling. Women in Culture and Society Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxii + 417 pp. $70.00 cloth; $24.00 paper. One seldom has the opportunity...

Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620.
September 1, 2001... Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620. By Robert Kolb. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999. 278 pp. $21.99 paper. In the past twenty...

Fortress Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions.
September 1, 2001... Fortress Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions. By Gunther Gassmann and Scott Hendrix. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999. xiv + 226 pp. $16.00 paper. Gassman and Hendrix present the historical context for the Reformation as background to the...

Martin Luther and John Wesley on the Sermon on the Mount.
September 1, 2001... Martin Luther and John Wesley on the Sermon on the Mount. By Tore Meistad. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 10. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999. ix + 356 pp. $55.00 cloth. This book compares interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount by Luther...

The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition.
September 1, 2001... The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition. By Richard A. Muller. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 308 pp. $65.00 cloth. This book contains a set of...

The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773.
September 1, 2001... The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773. Edited by John W. O'Malley, S.J., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx + 772 pp. $80.00 cloth. The...

Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835.
September 1, 2001... Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. By D. Dennis Hudson. Studies in the History of Christian Missions 2. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2000. xii + 220. $45.00 cloth. It was not long after...

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times.
September 1, 2001... France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times. By Raymond Jonas. Studies on the History of Society and Culture 39. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xvi + 308 pp. $40.00 cloth. "For the nineteenth...

The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887.
September 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. In the early 1870s, as part of his...

Religion, Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean.
September 1, 2001... Religion, Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean. Edited by Hemchand Gossai and Nathaniel Samuel Murrell. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. x + 320 pp. $49.95 cloth. Comprising the editors' short introduction and thirteen essays, this volume...

Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths.
September 1, 2001... Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. By Gerald R. McDermott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 245 pp. $45.00 cloth. In this important book, Gerald McDermott...

Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795.
September 1, 2001... Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795. By Peter M. Doll. Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 336 pp. $49.50 cloth. Doll has put the story of colonial...

Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions.
September 1, 2001... Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions. By Paul William Harris. Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 204 pp. $39.95 cloth. This is the first published full-length...

Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals.
September 1, 2001... Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals. By Firth Haring Fabend. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xviii + 284 pp. $50.00 cloth. Firth Haring Fabend's Zion on the Hudson is full of nicely...

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
September 1, 2001... Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. xii + 516 pp. $29.00 cloth. Of the making of many books about Abraham Lincoln, there is no end. Why then do we need yet another? It is not...

"Logical" Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery.
September 1, 2001... "Logical" Luther Lee and the Methodist War Against Slavery. By Paul Leslie Kaufman. Studies in Evangelicalism 17. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2000. xviii + 275 pp. $59.50 cloth. This revision of Paul Kaufman's Ph.D. dissertation on the...

Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting.
September 1, 2001... Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting. By Gail E. Husch. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000. xiv + 305 pp. 74 illus. (11 color). $60.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. This rich study of...

Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.
September 1, 2001... Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. By Diane Winston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 290 pp. $27.95 cloth. Red-Hot and Righteous is a compelling presentation of the influence of commercial...

The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914.
September 1, 2001... The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914. By Kathryn Oberdeck. New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins, 1999. xvi + 429 pp. $34.95...

The Sacred and the Secular University.
September 1, 2001... The Sacred and the Secular University. By Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiv + 184 pp. $24.95 cloth. Roberts and Turner have written a sparkling intellectual history of how the...

Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930.
September 1, 2001... Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930. By Paul Eli Ivey. Champagne, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xxiii + 227 pp. $49.95 cloth. Christian Science edifices have, perhaps, struck many...

A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh.
September 1, 2001... A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh. By Kenneth J. Heineman. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xvi + 287 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. The devastating collapse of American...

God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.
September 1, 2001... God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics. By Stephen L. Carter. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xii + 248 pp. $26.00 cloth. In this lively and provocative book, Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter takes up where he...

The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order.
September 1, 2001... The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order. By Eric Michael Mazur. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxviii + 196 pp. $38.00 cloth. The Americanization of Religious Minorities is...

Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women.
September 1, 2001... Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. By Michelle Mary Lelwica. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 210 pp. $25.00 cloth. Mary Michelle Lelwica makes explicit in the...

The Religious Imagination of American Women.
September 1, 2001... The Religious Imagination of American Women. By Mary Farrell Bednarowski. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xiv + 240 pp. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. This provocative and fascinating study surveys...

Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste.
September 1, 2001... Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste. By Frank Burch Brown. London: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx + 312 pp. $35.00 cloth. The place of the arts in Christian worship is, and always has been, rich and vexed. Even as seminaries are...

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY.
September 1, 2001... 6 January 2001 A meeting of the Council of the American Society of Church History was called to order at 4:15 p.m. on 4 January 2001 by President Hans J. Hillerbrand in Liberty Room A of the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Mass. ...