Church History articles from September 2007

Church History archives from September 2007

Hilary and the Homoiousians: using new categories to map the Trinitarian controversy.
September 1, 2007... Hilary of Poitiers and Basil of Ancyra were unlikely companions. The former was a Latin bishop from a backwater part of Gaul who had only recently become immersed in the Trinitarian controversy. The latter was a leading figure in the East,...

Mission delayed: the Russian Orthodox Church after the conquest of Kazan' (1).
September 1, 2007... Muscovy's active period of eastward expansion began with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' in 1552. By the seventeenth century, one observer claimed that the conquest of Kazan' was the event that made Ivan IV a tsar and Muscovy an empire....

Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780.
September 1, 2007... Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England....

"The flame of life was kindled in all animal and sensitive creatures": one quaker colonist's view of animal life (1).
September 1, 2007... In the winter of 1771, the colonial assembly of Pennsylvania received a petition from voters in Lancaster County asking for the construction of a turnpike from the Susquehanna River to Philadelphia. Supporters of the project believed that the...

The middle belt movement and the formation of Christian consciousness in colonial Northern Nigeria.
September 1, 2007... This article looks at the connection between a political movement and the evolution of Christian consciousness. It seeks to answer a series of questions not often asked, in hopes of demonstrating that these questions deserve more attention than...

East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence. By Henry Chadwick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 309 pp. $99.00 cloth. Christianity was born into the Mediterranean world...

Women of Byzantium.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Women of Byzantium. By Carolyn L. Connor. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xvii + 398 pp. $45.00 cloth. Despite considerable scholarly interest in the past two decades, Byzantine women's history remains an elusive and...

A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes. Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x + 274 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. One of the benefits of studying...

The New Cambridge Medieval History I: ca. 500-700.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The New Cambridge Medieval History h ca. 500-700. Edited by Paul Fouracre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 981 pp. $180.00 cloth. This volume completes the New Cambridge Medieval History, successor and replacement of...

Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. By Nicole Chareyron. Translated by W. Donald Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xi + 291 pp. $45.00 cloth. This book is an attempt to help modern readers experience what it was like...

Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages. By Don C. Skemer. Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii + 328 pp. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. In its rich array of medieval amulets,...

The Art of Healing. Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Art of Healing. Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town. By Marcia Kupfer. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xviii + 286 pp. 217 illustrations. $45.00 cloth. "To see works of medieval art...

The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870. By Francis Oakley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 298 pp. $125.00 cloth. For decades two scholars have stood out, and not just in the...

Sex, Marriage, and Fin John Calvin's Geneva. Volume 1. Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva. Volume 1. Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. By John Witte, Jr., and Robert M. Kingdon. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. xxxii + 512 pp. $32.00 paper. Canon law claimed marriage for...

The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615).(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). By Eric Nelson. Catholic Christendom. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. xiv + 279 pp. $94.95 cloth. Nelson's study, a revision of his Oxford...

The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750. Edited by Anne DunanPage. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 222 pp. $99.95 cloth. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the religious culture of...

Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Madness, Religion, and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. By David Lederer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 365 pp. $90.00 cloth. The distinctively Bavarian "beacon" of the book's subtitle illuminates a...

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xx + 341 pp. $129.00 cloth. Upon receipt of this book for review, I must admit being...

Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. By Marcus Hellyer. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xii + 338 pp. $50.00 cloth. In Catholic Physics, Hellyer charts an institutionally and...

Expulsion: England's Jewish Solution.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Expulsion: England's Jewish Solution. By Richard Huscroft. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2006. 192 pp. $29.95 paper. Richard Huscroft's slim volume, unburdened by extensive notes, will be a useful classroom text. Huscroft proposes to overlay the...

John Wyclif: Myth and Reality.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... John Wyclif: Myth and Reality. By G.R. Evans. Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2005. 320 pp. $25.00 cloth. One would not expect that a scholarly book, likely to become the standard biography of a notable medieval academic theologian,...

Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625. By Charles W.A. Prior. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 300 pp. $85.00 cloth. The core of...

John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and "Early Enlightenment" Europe.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and "Early Enlightenment" Europe. By John Marshall. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History....

Miracles in Enlightenment England.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Miracles in Enlightenment England. By Jane Shaw. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. x + 255 pp. $45.00 cloth. The only exaggerated claim in this modest but informative book is in the title. Even those who reject the term...

Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. By Aileen Fyfe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 326 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Once upon a time the relationship between religion and...

Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902. By Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x + 327 pp. $50.00 cloth. In 1870, the conservative Anglican...

"Because He was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... "Because He Was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement. By Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. xxviii + 333 pp. $35.00 cloth. Professor Vereb's monograph...

God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars. By Michael Shape. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 319 pp. $100.00 cloth. Many are the claims made...

The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia. By Wallace L. Daniel. Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xvi + 255 pp. $29.95 cloth. Wallace Daniel's The Orthodox...

Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 292 pp. $99.95 cloth. This volume of...

Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. By Chris Beneke. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 308 pp. $35.00 cloth. In this engaging, thoroughly researched and documented book, Chris Beneke explains why...

Populist Saints: B.T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodist.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists. By Howard A. Snyder. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. xx + 979 pp. $39.00 cloth. Since the publication of Timothy Smith's Revivalism and Social Reform (New York:...

The Beecher Sisters.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Beecher Sisters. By Barbara A. White. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. xiii + 400 pp. $35.00 cloth. The Beecher family was a nineteenth-century American institution. Pater familias Lyman Beecher, an evangelical reformer in...

J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist. By R. G. Robins. Religion in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 322 pp. $49.95 cloth. By any reckoning A. J. Tomlinson (1865-1943) is a fascinating character. An author,...

A Place Somewhat Apart: the private worlds of a late nineteenth-century public university.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A Place Somewhat Apart: The Private Worlds of a Late Nineteenth-Century Public University. By Philip Harrold. Princeton Theological Monograph Series 63. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2006. xii + 243 pp. $26.00 paper. This study of the University...

Sea La Luz: the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829--1900.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829--1900. By Juan Francisco Martinez. A1 Filo: Mexican American Studies Series 4. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006. xii + 197 pp. $24.95 cloth. At...

Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science. By Miriam R. Levin. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2005. xiv + 210 pp. $26.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In writing about the...

Missionaries of the State: the Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985. By Todd Hartch. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xxiv + 248 pp. $39.95 cloth. Missionaries of the State is an...

Vows: the story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son. By Peter Manseau. New York: Free Press, 2005. xii + 388 pp. $25.00 cloth; $15.00 paper. Growing up in pre-Vatican II Catholic Boston suburbs, Mary Doherty and William Manseau did not know...

Church, Identity, and Change: Theology and Denominational Structures in Unsettled Times.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Church, Identity, and Change: Theology and Denominational Structures in Unsettled Times. Edited by David A. Roozen and James R. Nieman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. viii + 656 pp. $36.00 paper. The aspirations of this big,...

The Other Quebec: Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-Century Religion and Society. By J.I. Little.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Other Quebec: Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-Century Religion and Society. By J.I. Little. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 281 pp. $70.00 cloth; $35.00 paper. The immediate reaction of historians writing within...

The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada. Edited by Michael Gauvreau and Ollivier Hubert. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 2.45. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. xii + 316 pp....

Elite and Popular Religion.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Elite and Popular Religion. Edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory. Studies in Church History 42. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2006. xiv + 442 pp. $80.00 cloth. Eamon Duffy chose the theme...

Missionaries for the Record: Letters from Overseas to the Presbyterian Church in Canada: 1846-60.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Missionaries for the Record: Letters from Overseas to the Presbyterian Church in Canada: 1846-60. By Geoffrey Johnston. Belleville, Ont.: Guardian, 2005. $25.00 paper. This book is a selection of letters from Canadian Presbyterian...

The Christian Minorities in Turkey.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Christian Minorities in Turkey. By Wilhelm Baum. Translated by Ludwig Roman Fleisher. Baker Hill, Kerela, South India: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI), 2006. vii + 253 pp. Rs. 150 (India); 15.00 [euro]. The historical...

Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2006. viii + 286 pp. $29.95 paper. Freedom's Distant Shores presents a collection of...

A History of Preaching.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A History of Preaching. By O. C. Edwards, Jr. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2004. xviii + 882 pp. CD-ROM with second volume of primary sources. 665 pp. $65.00 cloth. This book is one of several general surveys to be published on the history...

A Sociological History of Christian Worship.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A Sociological History of Christian Worship. By Martin D. Stringer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 270 pp. $75.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. What purpose history? More specifically, and in the author's own words, "what value...

Modern Christian Thought: The Twentieth Century.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Modern Christian Thought: The Twentieth Century. By James C. Livingston and Francis Schussler Fiorenza, with Sarah Coakley and James H. Evans, Jr. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2006. xvi + 544 pp. $29.00 paper. This is the second volume of...

Books received.
September 1, 2007... Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8....