Church History articles from September 2008

Church History archives from September 2008

Mendicants, the communes, and the law.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... THE present essay briefly examines evidence for the development of the mendicant orders, focusing on their relationship to important members of the middle and upper classes in the communes as one of the chief ways in which they gained...

"Sinne unfoulded": time, election, and disbelief among the godly in late sixteenth--and early seventeenth-century England.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2008... RICHARD Greenham, rector from 1570 to 1591 at Dry Dayton Church outside of Cambridge, England, once preached a sermon based on Thessalonians 5:19 ("Quench not the spirit"). Not one to let the brevity of a biblical text limit his own exegesis,...

Irreverent empire: Anglican inattention in an Atlantic world.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... ON a Sunday morning, early in the eighteenth century, Anglican minister James Blair accused male members of his Virginia congregation of attending church "on the purpose that they may feed their lustful Eyes." Criticizing his hearers for...

The secular beyond: free religious dissent and debates over the afterlife in nineteenth-century Germany.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... TOWARD the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, German writers began to favor a new metaphor for the afterlife: "das Jenseits" ("the Beyond"). (2) At first glance, the emergence of such a term may appear to have little bearing on...

"God is the author of both": science, religion, and the intellectualization of American Methodism.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... IN the spring of 1831, Methodist minister John Price Durbin delivered an evangelical sermon that assumed his listeners were familiar with the basic rules of science. Are planetary worlds seen revolving in their orbits harmoniously and...

Burning Zeal: The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570.('Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570', 'Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion: The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95')(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Burning Zeal: The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570. By Nikki Shepardson. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2007. 208 pp. $44.50 cloth. Catholic Activism in South-West France,...

Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001145 Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Edited by Matt Jackson-McCabe. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2007. x + 391 pp. $35.00 cloth. This collection embodies paradox. While...

Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: the Jovinianist Controversy.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001157 Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy. By David G. Hunter. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xx + 317 pp. $99.00 cloth. ...

The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context; Essays in Honor of David W. Johnson.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001169 The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context; Essays in Honor of David W. Johnson. Edited by James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie. CUA Studies in Early Christianity....

Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001170 Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch. By Isabella Sandwell. Greek Culture and the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 314 pp. $99.00 cloth....

Voting about God in Early Church Councils.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001182 Voting about God in Early Church Councils. By Ramsay MacMullen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 175 pp. $30 cloth. What happened in early church councils? From the second century into...

There is no Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001194 There is no Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. By Michael Gaddis. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 39. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005....

Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001200 Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Frances Giandrea. Anglo-Saxon Studies 7. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2007. xvi + 249 pp. $85.00 cloth. What do we know about the life and work of a...

Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001212 Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400. Edited by Emilia Jamroziak and Janet Burton. Europa Sacra 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. xiv + 401 pp. [euro] 75.00 cloth. The idea for this volume came from...

Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001224 Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 267 pp. $99.95 cloth. This is a collection of both newly written and...

Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001236 Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. Edited by David M. Whitford. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 79. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2008. xii + 459 pp. $52.00 cloth....

Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001248 Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany. By Cornelia Niekus Moore. Wolfenbutteler Forschungen 111. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. 405 pp. 79 [euro] cloth. This...

Couriers of the Gospel: England and Zurich, 1531-1558.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800125X Couriers of the Gospel: England and Zurich, 1531-1558. By Carrie Euler. Zurcher Beitrage zur Reformationsgeschichte, Band 25. Zurich: TVZ, 2006. xvi + 350 pp. 34 [euro] paper. In 1553, in a formal address...

Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001261 Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany. By Jonathan B. Durrant. Brill Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxx + 289 pp....

Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001273 Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture. Edited by David Loewenstein and John Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 322 pp. $96.00 cloth. Reading the essays in...

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001285 Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. By Allan Greer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi + 254 pp. $35.00 cloth. Allan Greer has described this book as a "dual biography" of the...

Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001297 Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. By Lori Branch. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. xiv + 351 pp. $39.95 cloth. Students of religion and of...

Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and Their Archives, 1703-1917.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001303 Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and Their Archives, 1703-1917. Edited by Pieter Holtrop and Henk Sleehte. Brill's Series in Church History 29. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiv + 224 pp. $99.00. One of the more...

Between Faith and Unbelief: American Transcendentalists and the Challenge of Atheism.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001315 Between Faith and Unbelief: American Transcendentalists and the Challenge of Atheism. By Elisabeth Hurth. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 136. Leiden: Brill, 2007. ix + 225 pp. $99.00 cloth....

Conscience and Compromise: Forgotten Evangelicals of Nineteenth-Century Scotland.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001327 Conscience and Compromise: Forgotten Evangelicals of Nineteenth-Century Scotland. By Patrieia Meldrum. Studies in Evangelical History and Thought. Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster, 2006. xxiv + 424 pp. 29.99...

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001339 Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. By James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 361 pp....

Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001340 Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920. By Thelda Ellen Joiner. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv + 273 pp. $39.95 cloth. While revivals and awakenings have long been fertile...

Aimee Semple McPherson and the resurrection of Christian America.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001352 Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. By Matthew Avery Sutton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 358 pp. $26.95 cloth. Matthew Sutton makes a compelling...

Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: l0.1017/S0009640708001364 Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment. By James M. Smith. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame University Press, 2007. xx + 276 pp. $28.00 paper. Recently in...

Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001376 Rendering to God and Caesar: the Irish Churches and the two States in Ireland, 1949-73. By Daithi O Corrain. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2007. xii + 277 pp. $74.50 cloth. Daithi O...

Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Ssacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001388 Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction. Edited by Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2007. ix + 233 pp....

The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, & Quebec.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800139X The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, & Quebec. Edited by Leslie Woodcock Tentler. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. vii + 302 pp....

Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001406 Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration. By Gerald E. Poyo. Latino Perspectives Series. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xiv + 370 pp. $65.00 cloth;...

Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001418 Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. By Diane B. Stinton. Faith and Cultures Series. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2004. xiv + 304 pp. $25.00 paper. Diane B. Stinton, a Canadian and...

Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S000964070800142X Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices. Edited by Charles E. Farhadian. Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies Series. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. xxii...

A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001431 A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church. By Matthew Engelke. The Anthropology of Christianity 2. Berkeley: University of California Press 2007. xvi + 306 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper....

Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies are Reshaping Anglicanism.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001443 Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies are Reshaping Anglicanism. By Miranda K. Hassett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xv + 297 pp. $39.50 cloth....

Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001455 Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives. Edited by Jackie Leach Scully and Pink Dandelion. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. x + 254 pp. $99.95 cloth. Trying to understand good and evil, particularly evil and...

Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001467 Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks. By Annabel Jane Wharton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 274 pp. $32.50 paper. "No country will more quickly dissipate romantic...

Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001479 Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. Edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel. Cambridge, Mass.: Dumbarton Oaks Research...

A Secular Age.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001480 A Secular Age. By Charles Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 878 pp. $39.95 cloth. Any scholar who is content to be seen as nur ein gewrhnlicher Historiker,...

The American Jesuits: A history.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001492 The American Jesuits: A History. By Raymond A. Schroth. New York: New York University Press, 2007. xii + 308 pp. $29.95 cloth. In the mid-nineteenth century, when European Catholic clergy sought refuge in...

Baptists in America.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001509 Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 316 pp. $26.00 paper. In this insightful book, Bill Leonard...

Race, Nation, and Empire in American History.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001510 Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Edited by James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, and Robert G. Lee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 384 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.50...

Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001522 Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America-Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln. By Matthew S. Holland. Religion and Politics Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. xii +...

Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001534 Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama. By Wilson Fallin, Jr. Religion and American Culture Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xv + 334 pp. $39.95 cloth. ...

Christianity and American Democracy.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001546 Christianity and American Democracy. By Hugh Heclo. The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 300 pp. $25.95 cloth. Hugh Heclo's book...

Books received.
September 1, 2008... Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. d'Abrera, Anna Ysabel, The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Ando,...