Church History articles from September 2005

Church History archives from September 2005

Cultivating true sight at the center of the world: Cyril of Jerusalem and the Lenten Catechumenate (1).
September 1, 2005... In 351 C.E., Cyril of Jerusalem prepared catechumens for baptism at what he identified as the very center of the world. (2) From Golgotha Christ once stretched his hands to embrace the ends of the earth, and Cyril's catechumens would soon...

The Council of Sens reconsidered: masters, monks, or judges?
September 1, 2005... The Council of Sens (May 25, 1141), (1) during which the teaching of Peter Abelard ([dagger] 1143) was condemned by an ecclesiastical court, has long been one of the most disputed subjects in twelfth-century scholarship. (2) The outcome of the...

"Fashions of worldly dames": separatist discourses of dress in early modern London, Amsterdam, and Plymouth Colony (1).
September 1, 2005... In a separatist congregation in London in 1594 a storm was brewing. The church's pastor, Francis Johnson, imprisoned for his nonconformist activities, had recently married, and Francis's younger brother George, also incarcerated, was deeply...

Reading the fossils of faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the evolutionary subtext of the synoptic problem.
September 1, 2005... In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom saved one of the best for Darwin. "Darwin's Origin of Species," we are told, came "into the...

Making doctors and nurses for Jesus: medical missionary stories and American Children (1).
September 1, 2005... The December 1899 issue of Our Little Friend, a Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath school paper containing moral instruction, missionary stories, and the upcoming week's Bible study lessons, related the following story to its young readers: ...

Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain. By Stephen Haliczer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. vi + 349 pp. $27.50 paper. Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later...

Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity. By Naomi Janowitz. Magic in History Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xxviii + 161 pp. $45.00 cloth. The latest book by Naomi Janowitz surveys a range of...

Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. x + 256 pp. $45.00 cloth. Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa are important in church...

Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium: Studies Presented to Robin Cormack.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium: Studies Presented to Robin Cormack. Edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xxiv + 302 pp. $84.95 cloth. The honoree of this collection of essays is found at...

Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Edited by David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 2003. xx + 412 pp., 35 illustrations. $28.00 paper. The editors of this excellent...

Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages. By Kevin Madigan. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xvi + 224 pp. $47.50 cloth. It is difficult to do justice in a short review to Kevin Madigan's...

Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250. By David Foote. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xiv + 256 pp. $50.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. David Foote...

Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity. By Laura Weigert. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004....

Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807. By Jonathan Glixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 372 pp. $72.00 cloth. Studies of music and culture in Venice have tended to focus on the...

Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555. By Glenn Ehrstine. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 85. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xviii + 350 pp. 42 plates. $116.00 cloth. Focusing on plays written by Niklaus Manuel...

Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith. By David Hotchkiss Price. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. xiii + 337 pp. $67.50 cloth. Price's...

A Reformation Life: Katharina von Bora.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... A Reformation Life: Katharina von Bora. By Rudolf K. Markwald and Marilynn Morris Markwald. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, 2002. 253 pp. $20.99 paper. Any evaluation of this biography must begin by acknowledging what it is and what it is not....

Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century. By Beth Kreitzer. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 239 pp. $55.00 cloth. How do you...

Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. By Gary K. Waite. European Culture and Society. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii + 284 pp. $90.00 cloth; $30.95 paper. This book shows how the major religious changes of...

Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Souls in Dispute: Conversos Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Disapora, 1580-1700. By David L. Graizbord. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 272 pp. 2 maps. $45.00 cloth. This is an important, and for some readers at...

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe. By Philip S. Gorski. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xvii + 264 pp. $21.00 paper. To historians of early modern Europe, the influence of...

Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. By David Aers. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xiv + 281 pp. $55.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. In Sanctifying Signs, David Aers continues his...

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent. By Richard L. Greaves. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xxii + 693 pp. $75.00 cloth. Religious dissent in the Restoration period in England has received much attention...

Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. By Claire Walker. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. General Editors Rab Houston and Edward Muir. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xiii + 247...

Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts. By Jeffrey Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxii + 355 pp. $85.00 cloth. Pope Pius VI Braschi (1775-99) was a reformer, yet a great supporter of...

An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton M. Klein. New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, 2004. xv + 160 pp. $49.95 paper. Milton Klein's slim volume, An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect,...

The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. Edited by Jeremy Gregory and Jeffrey S. Chamberlain. Studies in Modern British Religious History 5. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell, 2003. xiv + 315...

Burn Holy Fire: Religion in Lewes Since the Reformation.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Burn Holy Fire: Religion in Lewes Since the Reformation. By Jeremy Goring. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2003. 192 pp. 17.50 [pounds sterling] paper. This amiable book is a microhistory of Lewes, a Sussex market town that numbered some nine...

Covenanted Solidarity: The Theological Basis of Karl Barth's Opposition to Nazi Antisemitism and the Holocaust.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Covenanted Solidarity: The Theological Basis of Karl Barth's Opposition to Nazi Antisemitism and the Holocaust. By Mark R. Lindsay. Issues in Systematic Theology 9. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. xxii + 342 pp. $66.95 cloth. The Swiss...

The Quest for Russia's Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in PostCommunist Russia.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Quest for Russia's Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in PostCommunist Russia. By Perry L. Glanzer. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2002. x + 234 pp. $40.00 cloth. Perry Glanzer devoted this innovative and original study to...

Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic. By Steven M. Nolt. Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series 2. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. $29.95 cloth. ...

Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800. Edited by Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff. New York: Routledge, 2003. xxii + 317 pp. $24.95 paper. Christians have long contemplated humanity's sinfulness: its alienation...

The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi + 336 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Drawing on an...

An Introduction to Mormonism.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... An Introduction To Mormonism. By Douglas J. Davies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi + 277 pp. $65.00 cloth; $23.00 paper. British theologian Davies intends his book "for those who are not Latter-day Saints but who want some...

Missionary Women: Gender, Professionalism and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Missionary Women: Gender, Professionalism, and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission. By Rhonda Anne Semple. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2003. xvii + 285 pp. $110.00 cloth. The purpose of this book is to examine "the role gender played in...

Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire. Edited by Brian Stanley. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. x + 313 pp. $45.00 paper. Scholars interested in the connections between...

Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860. By Diane Batts Morrow. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 336 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Students of U.S....

The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Waiter Rauschenbusch. By Christopher H. Evans. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. xxx + 348 pp. $25.00 paper. From the vantage point of our...

Thinking in the Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Thinking in the Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement. By Douglas Jacobsen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xviii + 418 pp. $24.95 paper. Douglas Jacobsen, Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology...

Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society. By Arlene Sanchez-Walsh. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xxii + 243 pp. $59.50 cloth; $22.50 paper. The Protestant Pentecostal and Catholic Charismatic movements...

Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in American Catholicism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in American Catholicism. Edited by Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, SDV. Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. xxi +...

Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth Century America. Edited by James M. O'Toole. Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. v + 290 pp. $39.95 cloth....

The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council. By Andrew Greeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 226 pp. $24.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. In this "extended essay" Greeley hopes to...

Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction. By Farrell O'Gorman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xi + 259 pp. $44.95 cloth. Farrell O'Gorman's first...

The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story. By Thomas Burton. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. xv + 262 pp. $19.95 paper. Thomas Burton's narration of Glenn Summerford's story is neither a history of serpent...

Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation. By Quentin J. Schultze. Rhetoric and Public Affairs. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. viii + 440 pp. $84.95 cloth. Quentin Schultze argues...

Nation Dance: Religions, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Nation Dance: Religions, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Edited by Patrick Taylor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii + 220 pp. $39.95 cloth. Nation Dance is a collection of essays exploring the...

Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas. Edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii + 338 pp. $24.95 paper. The editors of this ambitious collection have put together a volume that...

Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. By Richard Kieckhefer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 372 pp. $39.95 cloth. Richard Kieckhefer has in this work made a monumental contribution to the role...

Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. By Frances S. Adeney. Women in Religion. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xii + 226 pp. $24.95 paper. "Are you trying to dismantle our whole way of...

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xvii + 371 pp. $29.95 cloth. This intellectual history proposes that during the last four hundred years a...

Minutes of the American Society OF Church History business meeting.(SOCIETY NOTICES)
September 1, 2005... January 8, 2005, 4:45-5:45 P.M. Seattle Westin Hotel 1. President's Remarks. Pres. Dickerson noted that the past year had been a time of transition in both the Executive Secretary's office and in the location and editorship of Church...

Minutes of the American Society of Church History council meeting.(SOCIETY NOTICES)
September 1, 2005... March 31, 2005 Present: Dale Johnson, Robin Jensen *, Everett Ferguson, Jan Shipps, Mark Noll, Amanda Porterfield, John Corrigan, Cecilia Murray *, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Charles Lippy, Keith Francis *, Ken Minkema. Thomas Kselman *...