Church History articles from September 2006

Church History archives from September 2006

Miracles, early modern science, and rational religion.
September 1, 2006... Readers of the New Testament could be excused for thinking that there is little consistency in the manner in which miracles are represented in the Gospels. Those events typically identified as miracles are variously described as "signs"...

The covenantal quietism of Tobias Crisp (1).
September 1, 2006... As England's public upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century were turning ominous, the antinomian preacher Tobias Crisp set his own stamp upon tempestuous times. Christ Alone Exalted comprises a series of sermons that Crisp delivered, "in or...

Hesitant steps: acceptance of the Gregorian calendar in eighteenth-century Geneva.
September 1, 2006... History demonstrates that the calendar is a tool of far more significance than simply a means to organize units of time. For Roman high priests prior to the reign of Julius Caesar, the calendar was a tool of power, symbolizing political...

The quiet crusade: Moody Bible Institute's outreach to public schools and the mainstreaming of Appalachia, 1921-66.
September 1, 2006... In 1921, William Norton of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago pushed, pulled, and dragged his Model T along the back roads of the southern Appalachians. He visited churches, schools, and private homes, talking with anyone and everyone he...

Editor's introduction.(Forum on Sacred Spaces of Healing in Modern American Christianity)(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... The short essays gathered here advance our understanding of the importance of sacred space in modern American practices of Christian healing. The papers work together in remarkable ways, each augmenting insights expressed in the others....

Houses of healing: sacred space, spiritual practice, and the transformation of female suffering in the faith cure movement, 1870-90.(Forum on Sacred Spaces of Healing in Modern American Christianity)
September 1, 2006... In the autumn of 1876, while attending the nation's Centennial celebration, Miss Harriet M. Barker contracted a case of typhoid fever that left her crippled. While she managed to "get about" on crutches for several years, Barker's health "was...

From saint to seeker: Teresa Urrea's search for a place of her own.(Forum on Sacred Spaces of Healing in Modern American Christianity)
September 1, 2006... On Monday, December 15, 1902, the Los Angeles Times proclaimed the feted arrival of the famed "Mystic Santa Teresa." The paper regaled its readers with the circus like events that surrounded her arrival to the burgeoning West Coast metropolis:...

From tent meetings and store-front healing rooms to Walmarts and the Internet: healing spaces in the United States, the Americas, and the world, 1906-2006.(Forum on Sacred Spaces of Healing in Modern American Christianity)
September 1, 2006... The centennial of the Azusa Street revivals of 1906 provides us with convenient poles for charting shifts in the landscape of Christian spiritual healing practices during the past century. Alongside unprecedented achievements in medical...

Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. By Jennifer Wright Knust. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xviii + 279 pp. $45.00 cloth. Jennifer Wright Knust's Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient...

Christianity and Roman Society.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Christianity and Roman Society. By Gillian Clark. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 137 pp. $75.00 cloth; $24.99 paper. Undergraduates studying anything in antiquity, politics, history or...

Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church. By Michael Philip Penn. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 190 pp. $42.50 cloth. "Greet one...

Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza. By Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 211 pp. $39.95 cloth. Hevelone-Harper's revised Princeton...

John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain. By John Chryssavgis. London: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 258 pp. $79.95 cloth. John Climacus (ca. 579-649) is the author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, perhaps the most influential...

From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity. By Andrew T. Crislip. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. x + 236 pp. $65.00 cloth. The question of the origin of...

Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims. By Jason Glenn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 330 pp. $80.00 cloth. Richer was a...

Saints, Scholars, and Politicians: Gender as a Tool in Medieval Studies.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Saints, Scholars, and Politicians: Gender as a Tool in Medieval Studies. Edited by Mathilde van Dijk and Renee Nip. Medieval Church Studies 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. viii + 263 pp. 5 black-and-white illus. 60.00 [euro] cloth. Saints,...

Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. By Anne Winston-Allen. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xviii + 345 pp. $55.00 cloth. This remarkable study of convent...

The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. By Michael Lower. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xii + 259 pp. $49.95 cloth. Late in 1234 Pope Gregory IX, having no faith in the truce...

The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy. Edited by William R. Cook. The Medieval Franciscans. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xxii + 297 pp. $199.00 cloth. This new volume on Franciscan art is one of several recent publications in English on the art...

Facade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Facade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral. By Carolyn Marino Malone. Leiden: Brill, 2004. xiv + 314 pp. 2 color and 52 black-and-white illus. $201.00 cloth. Among English "screen facades," so-called because the towers and...

Religious Women in Golden Age Spain: The Permeable Cloister.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Religious Women in Golden Age Spain: The Permeable Cloister. By Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 244 pp. $89.95 cloth. This book is a thoughtful, extended essay on two...

Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism. By Laurence Lux-Sterritt. Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 239 pp. $99.95 cloth. Laurence...

Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow. Studies in Comparative Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 418 pp. $80.00 cloth....

Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751. By Neil Kamil. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxv + 1060 pp. $75.00...

The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. By G. W. Bernard. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 738 pp. $40.00 cloth. George Bernard states at the outset that "the claim of this book is...

Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths, Protestantism, and the Political Nation, 1553-1682.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths, Protestantism, and the Political Nation, 1553-1682. By Edward Vallance. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2005. viii + 264 pp. $95.00 cloth. Seventeenth-century England was a formative...

Early New England: A Covenanted Society.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Early New England: A Covenanted Society. By David A. Weir. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. xviii + 460 pp. $34.00 paper. In 1935 Perry Miller identified the covenant idea as "the marrow of Puritan divinity" in his now famous essay by...

Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England. By Lisa M. Gordis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 307 pp. $39.00, cloth. Opening Scripture is a wide-ranging and in places pathbreaking...

One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. By Mark Douglas McGarvie. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xii + 258 pp. $38.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. In this creative and...

Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. By Julius H. Bailey. The History of African-American Religions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii + 153 pp. $59.95 cloth. ...

Isaac Taylor Tichenor. The Creation of the Baptist New South.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Isaac Taylor Tichenor. The Creation of the Baptist New South. By Michael E. Williams. Religion and American Culture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xvi + 243 pp. $42.50 cloth. Isaac Taylor Tichenor was, in his long and...

For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905. By Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. The History of African-American Religions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xvi + 252 pp....

From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. By Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. x + 307 pp. color illus. $59.95 cloth. The most welcome contributions of Loveland and...

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. By Donald T. Critchlow. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 428 pp. $29.95 cloth. There have been...

Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x + 269 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. It is not just the paucity of research...

Baptists in America.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 317 pp. $40.00 cloth. Baptists in America is a comprehensive historical and sociological account of America's largest Protestant family. Rather than the...

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. By Yvonne P. Chireau. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ix + 226 pp. $34.95 cloth. Historians of African American religion have not given sustained attention...

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. By Gregory A. Prince and Win. Robert Wright. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2005. xx + 491 pp. $29.95 cloth. Prince and Wright, both LDS church members, one the CEO of a...

The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition. Edited by D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas, and Stephen J. Nichols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2003. 255 pp. $21.99 paper. Imagine, for argument's...

Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion. By Arthur E. Farnsley II, N. J. Demerath III, Etan Diamond, Mary L. Mapes, and Elfriede Wedam. The Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture. Bloomington: Indiana...

Themes in Religion and American Culture.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Themes in Religion and American Culture. Edited by Philip Goff and Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. v + 389 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. In the mid-1990s, scholarship on North American religions...

Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo. By Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x...

The Church and Mary.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Church and Mary. Edited by R. N. Swanson. Studies in Church History 39. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2004. xvi + 377 pp. $75.00 cloth. This collection consists of papers read at the 2001...

The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice. By David Morgan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xv + 318 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. In his influential Landscape and Power (Chicago: University of...

Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation. Edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory. Studies in Church History 40. Woodbridge, U.K: Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2004. xiv + 384 pp. $75.00 cloth. This volume,...

An Introduction to World Methodism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... An Introduction to World Methodism. By Kenneth Cracknell and Susan J. White. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 283 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.99 paper. In this contribution to CUP's series on the world's religious traditions,...

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. xiv + 283 pp. $30.00 cloth. This very nicely done volume by David Hempton is not so much a history of Methodism as it is an extended essay...

Saints and their Symbols: Recognizing Saints in Art and in Popular Images.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Saints and their Symbols: Recognizing Saints in Art and in Popular Images. By Fernando Lanzi and Gioia Lanzi. Drawings by Ermanno Leso. Translated by Matthew J. O'Connell. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 2004. 239 pp. $49.95 cloth. The...

The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition. By Gavin D. Flood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 289 pp. $75.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. Gavin Flood's stated goal in The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and...

Society notices.
September 1, 2006... SOCIETY NOTICES ASCH 02-03 03-04 04-05 BUDGET Actual Actual Projected REVENUE Member dues 59,790 52,640 60,986...