Church History

Papers
(The TQCC of Church History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The First Catholic Diocese in Asia and the Spread of Catholicism: Juan de Albuquerque, Bishop of Goa, 1538–15533
Writing the Jews out of History: Pseudo-Hegesippus, Classical Historiography, and the Codification of Christian Anti-Judaism in Late Antiquity3
An Evangelical is Anyone who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust2
Cyril of Alexandria's Renunciation of Religious Violence2
A “Syncretism of Piety”: Imagining Global Protestantism in Early Eighteenth-Century Boston, Tranquebar, and Halle1
A Malawi Church History 1860–2020. By Kenneth R. Ross and Klaus Fieldler. Mzuzu: Mzuni Press, 2020. 493 pp. $68.95 paper.1
Adoniram Judson's Burmese Bible: Dependency and Development1
Reformed Monasticism and the Narrative of Cistercian Beginnings1
Printing, Publics, and Pudding: Charles Chauncy's Universal Salvation and the Material Transformation of New England Orthodoxy1
Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon. By William L. Davis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. viii + 250 pp. $90.00 hardcover; $29.95 pape1
Hearing Faith: Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire. By Andrew A. Cashner. Studies in Reformation Studies 1. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xvi + 244 pp. $128.00 cloth; $128.00 e-book.1
Upper West Side Catholics: Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese. By Thomas J. Shelley. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. x + 150 pp. $29.95 hardcover.1
A Tale of Two Missions: Illinois Choices and Conversions at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century1
The Basel Compactata and the Limits of Religious Coexistence in the Age of Conciliarism and Beyond1
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel. By Elizabeth Fenton. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $35.00 hardcover.1
Anger, Prayer, and the Transformation of Desire: Augustine's Catechumenate as an Emotion-Shaping Institution1
Battle for the Soul of a City: John Roach Straton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in New York, 1922–19351
A Companion to the Hussites. Edited by Michael van Dussen and Pavel Soukup. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 453 pp. $239.00 cloth.0
Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia. By Matthew Bryan Gillis. Renovatio – Studies in the Carolingian World, 1. Budapest: Trivent, 2021. 158 pp. €79.00 hardcover; €37.00 paperbac0
Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637–1716) as Dissenting Conformer. By Daniel C. Norman. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022. xii + 292 pp. $58.00 hardcover; $38.00 paper.0
“The Lord does not wish the death of a sinner”: Investigating Selected Ordinary Glosses to Pope Gregory IX's Decretales (1234) on Heretics0
When the Canaanite Conquest Met the Enlightenment: How Christian Apologists of the English Enlightenment Harmonized the Biblical Canaanite Conquest with the Moral Values of the Eighteenth Century0
Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond. Edited by Antonio E. Felle and Bryan Ward-Perkins. Contextualizing the Sacred 11. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. xx + 190 pp. €95.00 pa0
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities. By Rose-Marie Peake. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 245 pp. €99.00 cloth.0
The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images. Edited by Thomas Arentzen and Mary B. Cunningham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xx + 360 pp. $120.00 har0
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. By Anna Grzymała-Busse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. xxi + 235 pp. $29.95 paperback.0
Lost in Translation? Constructing Ancient Roman Martyrs in Baroque Bavaria0
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature. By Lindsay V. Reckson. Performance and American Cultures 2. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 336 pp. $89.00 cloth; $29.00 paper.0
How the Reformation Was Named: The Politics of History, c.1400–1700. By Benjamin M. Guyer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii + 220 pp. $85.00 cloth.0
Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2020. xviii + 338 pp. $29.95 paper0
The Lands of Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan. By Ross Balzaretti. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 44. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. xvii + 640 pp. €130.00 hardcover.0
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle. By Shannen Dee Williams. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. xxiii + 394 pp. $114.95 cloth; $30.95 pap0
CHH volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark. Edited by Sarah Croix and Mads Vedel Heilskov. Acta Scandinavica 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 296 pp. $111.00 cloth.0
The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History. By Christopher Tyerman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. 520 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940. By Margaret Chowning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xiii + 362 pp. $45.00 cloth.0
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. By Aileen Friesen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xiii + 224 pp. $65.00 cloth.0
Dante and Violence. Domestic, Civic, Cosmic. By Brenda Deen Schildgen. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 344 pp. $60.00 hardcover.0
Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi. By Donna Trembinski. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xii + 255 pp. $68 hardcover; $68 epub.0
Revisioning John Chrysostom: New Approaches, New Perspectives. Edited by Chris L. De Wet and Wendy Mayer. Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxviii + 840 pp. $299.00 e-b0
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 222 pp. $29.95 hardback.0
Ethnicity and Inclusion: Religion, Race, and Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities. By David G. Horrell. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2020. xxiii + 424 pp. $55.00 cloth.0
Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914. By Nathan G. Alexander. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ix + 290 pp. $39.00.0
From High Priest to Patriarch: History and Authority in the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo. By Marianna Mazzola. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum 688, Subsidia 141. Leuven: Pee0
The Song of Songs: A Biography. By Ilana Pardes. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. $24.95 hardcover.0
Jesuit Superior General Luis Martín García and His Memorias: “Showing Up.” By David G. Schultenover S.J. Jesuit Studies, Volume 30. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. xiv + 945 pp. $284.00 cloth; 0
Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism. Edited by Andreea Badea, Bruno Boute, Marco Cavarzere, and Steven Vanden Broecke. Scientiae Studies 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $10
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. By Darren Dochuk. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 688 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance. By Ita Mac Carthy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xvi + 272 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
The Book of Exodus: A Biography. By Joel S. Baden. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 237 pp. $26.95 hardcover.0
Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers. By Charles McCrary. New Studies in Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp. $95.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.0
Mormon Studies: A Critical History. By Ronald Helfrich Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. x + 229 pp. $39.95 paper.0
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Edited by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven . Baptists in Early North America 7, ed. William H. Brackney. Macon, GA: Mercer University Pres0
In Defence of Faith, Againt the Manichaeans. Critical Edition and Historical, Literary & Theological Study of the Treatise Adversus Manichaeos Attributed to Evodius of Uzalis. By Aäron Vans0
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State. By Kenneth C. Barnes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021. xiii + 234 pp. $34.95 hardcover.0
What Makes a Church Sacred? Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity. By Mary K. Farag. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 63. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xv + 323 pp0
Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell. By James M. Patterson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 236 pp. $49.95 cloth.0
Scottish Presbyterian Worship: Proposals for Organic Change, 1843 to the Present Day. By Bryan D. Spinks. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 2020. xx + 299 pp. £25.00 paperback.0
Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular. Edited by Suzan Folkerts. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. 20
The Economic Reform of Female Monasticism in the Papal States of Clement VIII: Ideas, Actions, and Impacts0
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes. New York: New York University Press, 2021. xviii + 245 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
A Material History of the Bible, England 1200–1553. By Eyal Poleg. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2020. xxxiv + 227 pp. $90.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.0
La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society. Edited by Wil G. Pansters. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. xiv + 230 pp. $65.00 cloth.0
The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic. Edited by David J. Collins. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. 292 pp. $74.95 hardcover.0
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History. By Alan Strathern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. pp. xvi + 391. $29.99 paper.0
The Social World of the Abbey of Cava c. 1020-1300 By Graham Loud. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion LI. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021. xxxiii + 417 pp. $115.00 hardcover; $29.95 e-boo0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 250 pp. $32.95 paperback, $990
Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $110.00 hardcover.0
The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition. Edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 30
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xxxvii + 537 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology. Edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, and Charles M. Stang. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xvi0
The Church of England and the Coronation Rite, 1761–18380
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Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing. By J. M. F. Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. viii + 40
Divine Programming: Negotiating Christianity in American Dramatic Television Production 1996–2016. By Charlotte E. Howell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv + 270 pp. $125.00 hardcover; $390
The Bible in the Early Church. By Justo L. González. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022. x + 194 pp. $19.99 paper.0
Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920. By John S. Haller Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. 320 pp. $54.95 cloth.0
CHH volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
A Dangerous Parting: The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory. By Nathan L. Shedd. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2021. x + 218 pp. $49.99 cloth.0
Oral Roberts and the Rise of the Prosperity Gospel. By Jonathan Root. Foreword by Daniel Vaca. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2023. xiv + 254 pp. $26.00 paper.0
Liturgical Poetry in Christian Nubia: The Evidence of Wall Inscriptions in the Lower Church at Banganarti. By Agata Deptuła. Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplements 38. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. xii +0
Christ and the Law: Antinomianism at the Westminster Assembly. By Whitney R. Gamble. Studies on the Westminster Assembly. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Reformation Heritage Books, 2018. x + 187 pp. $40.00 hard0
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. By Eugene McCarraher. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 819 pp. $39.95 cloth.0
Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe. By Adriano Prosperi. Translated by Jeremy Carden. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. xvi + 621 pp. $0
The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past. By Paul J. Gutacker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. x + 247 pp. $29.95 paper.0
Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland. By Elizabeth Walgenbach. The Northern World 92. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xii+178 pp. €90 cloth.0
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. By David I. Kertzer. New York: Random House, 2022. xxxvii + 621 pp. $37.50 hardcover.0
The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative. By Beth C. Spacey. Crusading in Context. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2020. xvi + 198 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
Preaching the Gospel to the Hellenes: The Life and Works of Gregory the Wonderworker. By Francesco Celia. Late Antique History and Religion 20. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. ix + 378 pp. $132.00 hardcover.0
The Course of God's Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America. By Philippa Koch. North American Religions. New York: New York University Press, 2021. xiv + 265 pp. $39.00 hardcover.0
American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation. By Kirsten Fischer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 307 pp. $39.95 cloth.0
Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World. By Michael F. Bird. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022. xi + 480 pp. $59.99 cloth.0
Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World. By Gordon L. Heath. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. x + 261 pp. $110 cloth; $35 eBook.0
Good Government and Church Order: Essays on the Role of Secular Authority in the German Reformation. By James M. Estes. Essays and Studies 53. Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2022. 326 pp. $49.95 CAD pape0
Oliver Hart & the Rise of Baptist America. By Eric C. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 337 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
Defining Christ: The Church of the East and Nascent Islam. By Marijke Metselaar. Late Antique History and Religion 19. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. xii + 464 pp. $132.00 hardcover.0
Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Edited by Michele Cutino. Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 86. Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. xii + 568 pp. $149.99 hardcove0
Unexplained Revolutions: The Origins and Ends of Latin American Catholic Upheaval0
Dennis L. Durst, The Perils of Human Exceptionalism: Elements of a Nineteenth-Century Theological Anthropology (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022). 253pp. $105.0
History and Spiritual Formation: Baron Friedrich von Hügel's Spiritual Nurture0
Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of C. H. Spurgeon. By Thomas Breimaier. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2020. ix + 271 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Privilege and Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church. By Robert Tobin. London: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv + 372 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
Figures of Presence and Absence: An Introduction to the French Dispute about Sacred Images and the Role of Art in the Life of the Church in the Early Modern Period. By Piotr Krasny. Translated by Joan0
The King's Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London. By Lauren Fogle. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2019. xvi + 233 pp. $95.00 hardcover.0
Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium. By Gordon Leidner. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. 245 pp. $27.95 paper.0
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet. By Bruce Gordon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xviii + 349 pp. $32.50 hardcover.0
Reforms of Christian Life in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By Querciolo Mazzonis. Translated by Laurence Steinman. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. viii + 272 pp. $44.95 paper; $160 hardback; $44.95 e0
St. Stephen's College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1548. By Elizabeth Biggs. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 50. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. xi + 248 pp0
The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe. By Lucia Travaini. Religion and Money in the Middle Ages. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022. xxi + 286 pp, 76 b/w ills. $170.00 clot0
A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity. By Vince F. Bantu. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2020. 256 pp. $35.00 paper.0
The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire. By Katherine D. Moran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xiv + 311 pp. $48.95 cloth; $31.99 ebook.0
The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity. By Yuliya Minets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 418 pp. $120.00 cloth; $36.99 paper.0
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America. By Theresa Keeley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ix + 334 pp. $49.95 cloth, $32.99 eBook.0
Angels and Anchoritic Culture in Late Medieval England. By Joshua S. Easterling. Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiii + 228 pp. $84.00 har0
Christ as Yogi: The Jesus of Vivekananda and Modern Hinduism0
Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. By Karen A. Winstead. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. x + 197 pp. $100.00 cloth; $45.00 paper; $35.99 e-book.0
Lutheran Theology and the Shaping of Society: The Danish Monarchy as Example. Edited by Bo Kristian Holm and Nina J. Koefoed. Refor500 Academic Studies 33. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018.0
In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II. By Leah Mickens. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 205 pp. $89.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.0
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe By Caroline Walker Bynum. New York: Zone Books, 2020. 344 pp. $32.95 hardcover.0
Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843–63, By Ryan Mallon. Scottish Religious Cultures. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ix + 306 pp. £85 (paperback, 2023, £24.99).0
The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium. By Daniel Caner. Transformation of the Classical Heritage LXII. Oakland, CA: University of California Press,0
The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together: The Life of Father Fabian Flynn, CP. By Sean Brennan. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. xxii + 290 pp. $34.95 paper.0
The Catholic Church and the Dutch Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy (1564–1733). By Els Agten. Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture 80. Leiden: Brill, 2020
Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso. By Christopher Grasso. Oxford University Press, 2021. viii+ 529 pp. Hardcover $34.95.0
CHH volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith. By Daniel Silliman. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. ix + 276 pp. $27.99 cloth.0
Copts in Modernity: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium of Coptic Studies, Melbourne, 13–16 July 2018. Edited by Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly van Doorn-Harder. Texts a0
“Written for Our Discipline and Use”: The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation. Edited by Agnethe Siquans. Studien zur antiken Schriftauslegung / Studie0
A Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality. Edited by Timothy H. Robinson. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiii + 419. $239.00 hardcover.0
New York City and the Production of Sacred Space0
Negotiating Liturgical Obligations in Late Medieval Dominican Convents0
Sixteenth-Century Mission: Explorations in Protestant and Roman Catholic Theology and Practice. Edited by Robert L. Gallagher and Edward L. Smither. Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology. Bell0
Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History. By Leanne M. Dzubinski and Anneke H. Stasson. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. xii + 239 pp. $25.0
The Covenant of Works: The Origins, Development and Reception of the Doctrine. By J. V. Fesko. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. xv + 306 pp. New York: Oxford University Press 2020. $99.00 hardco0
Beyond the Wall: Franciscan Friary in Early Modern Olomouc. By Martin Elbel. Translated from the Czech by Eva Černínová with revisions by Eli Woock. Rome: Viella, 2019. 188 pp. 35 fig. $49.00 hardcove0
After the Revival: Pentecostals and the Making of a Canadian Church. By Michael Wilkinson and Linda M. Ambrose. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. x + 248 pp. Can$120.00 cloth; Can$37.950
Christianity and the Orthodox Church in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe: Historical Insights for Current Religious Realities0
Liturgy and Devotion in the Crusader States. Edited by Iris Shagrir and Cecilia Gaposchkin. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 149 pp. $48.95 paper; $160.00 hardcover.0
The Beginning of the Cult of Relics. By Robert Wiśniewski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. $93.00 cloth.0
Das theologische Profil des Julian von Toledo: Das Leben und Wirken eines westgotischen Bischofs des siebten Jahrhunderts. By Stefan Pabst. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 165. Leiden-Boston: Bril0
The Gloss & the Text: William Perkins on Interpreting Scripture with Scripture. By Andrew S. Ballitch. Studies in Historical & Systematic Theology. Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham Press, 2020. xix +0
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism. Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin. Edited by Andrei Orlov. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 160. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xx + 387 pp. €142,00 / $171.00
The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: “The Wonders of the Lord.” By George Southcombe. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 197 pp. $90.00 cloth.0
Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. By Jeremy Best. German and European Studies 38. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xiv + 322 pp. $CDN 750
Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in Medieval Ireland. By Francis Young. Dublin: Four Courts, 2020. 192 pp. $60.00 hardcover.0
Nicolaus Mameranus: Poetry and Politics at the Court of Mary Tudor. By Matthew Tibble. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 220. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000. Xii + 389pp. €157 cloth.0
Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant. By D. G. Hart. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. vii + 261 pp. $41.99 cloth.0
Nicholas Wiseman, The Dublin Review, and the Oxford Movement: A Study with Reference to John Henry Newman, 1836 to 18450
Origen's Philosophy of Freedom in Early Modern Times: Debates about Free Will and Apokatastasis in 17th-Century England and Europe. Edited by Alfons Fürst. Adamantiana 13. Münster: Aschendorff, 2019. 0
Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614. By Lu Ann Homza. Iberian Encounter and Exchange 475–1755 5. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 20220
Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or. By Annette Chapman-Adisho. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 2, no. 86. Montreal: McGill-Queen0
A Rebel Saint: Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798–1873. By Philip D. Hill. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2022. 252 pp. $38.00 paperback.0
June 2023 Books Received0
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible. Ed. H. A. G. Houghton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xxxvii + 522 pp. $165.00 cloth.0
Benedict XV A Pope in the World of the ‘Useless Slaughter’ (1914–1918). Edited by A. Melloni, G. Cavagnini, and G. Grossi. Translated by Susan Dawson Vásquez and David Dawson Vásquez. 2 vols. Turnhout0
To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations. By Lauren Frances Turek. The United States in the World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press0
An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2018. xiii + 76 pp. $19.95 paper.0
Philologia Sacra und Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift: Studien zum Werk des lutherischen Barocktheologen Salomon Glassius (1593–1656). By Armin Wenz. Historia Hermeneutica Series Studia 20. Berlin: Walt0
Charles Hodge: American Reformed Orthodox Theologian. Ed. Ryan M. McGraw. Reformed Historical Theology. Ed. Herman J. Selderhuis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2023. Hardcover. 339 pp. $161.00
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought. Edited by Lydia Schumacher. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021 [Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der Mittelalterlichen Theologie un0
Introduction for John T. McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (2022)0
Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment. By Madeleine Pennington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxx + 242 pp. $100.00 cloth; e-book available.0
The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c. 1300–1540. By Michael Carter. Medieval Monastic Studies 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. xlvii + 328 pp. €100.00 cloth.0
Heaven's Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World. By D. L. Noorlander. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. vii + 289 pp. $45.00 hardcover.0
Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. By Richard W. Vaudry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. viii + 390 pp. $80.00 cloth.0
Muslim-Christian Relations in Damascus amid the 1860 Riot. By Rana Abu-Mounes. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xii + 256 pp., incl. 5 color and black-and-white figures. $125.00 hardcover.0
Protestant Liberty: Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878. By James M. Forbes. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 94. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 20220
Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France. By Michèle Miller Sigg. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022. ix + 258 pp. $54.99 cloth.0
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North. By Richard J. Boles. New York: New York University Press, 2020. xii + 326 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture. By Beth Williamson. Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020. xvi + 239 pp. $990
Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman. By Peter Eisenstadt. University of Virginia Press, 2021. xv + 544 pp. $34.95 cloth; $34.95 e-book.0
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Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography. By Eugen J. Pentiuc. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xx + 450 pp. $37.99 paperback.0
CHH volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
The Oxford Handbook of Origen. Edited by Ronald E. Heine and Karen Jo Torjesen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. v + 596 pp. $145.00 hardcover.0
The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus. By Sean Griffin. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, vol. 112. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ix + 275 pp. $99.99 0
Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. By Meg Leja. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. viii + 378 pp. $89.95 cloth.0
Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America. By Monica D. Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 177 pp. $49.99 cloth.0
For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790–1861. By Pamela Voekel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xv + 422 pp. $29.99 paper.0
Auditing Revival: George Whitefield and Public Accounting in Colonial America0
Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920–2020. Edited by Jane Platt and Martin Wellings. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. xii + 264 pp. £96.00 hardcover (e-book also available).0
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A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. Edited by Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 192 pp. $99.95 ha0
Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889–1970. Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner, and Ian Tyrrell. Perspectives on the Global Past.0
Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c. 700–1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham. By Charles C. Rozier. Writing History in the Middle Ages 7. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer for the York Med0
Africa in the Global Church?0
Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. By Thomas H. Reilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 242 pp. $99 cloth.0
Religion and Memory: The Importance of Monuments in Preserving Historical Identity. By Jutta Kirsch. Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 32. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 272 pp. $69.00 paper.0
Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America. By Carl R. Weinberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 356 pp. $26.95 paper.0
God and Progress: Religion & History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845-1914. By Joshua Bennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 311 pp. $100 hardcover.0
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism. By Erin Kathleen Rowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxii + 316 pp. $49.99 hardcover.0
Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam. By Bradly Bowman. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. pp. 248, ill B/N. $105.00 hardcover.0
Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire. By Nadieszda Kizenko. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiv + 327 pp. $100 cloth.0
Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Edited by Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis. Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture. Boston: Brill, 20
Roundtable on Michael J. Hollerich, Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021)0
Superior Women: Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers’ Abbey of Sainte-Croix. By Jennifer C. Edwards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv + 313 pp. $93.00 hardcover.0
Early Reformation Covenant Theology: English Reception of Swiss Reformed Thought, 1520–1555. By Robert J. D. Wainwright. Reformed Academic Dissertations. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian & Reforme0
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular. Edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther, and Max Weiss. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2019. vii + 328 pp. $45.00 c0
Edwards the Mentor. By Rhys S. Bezzant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. vii + 208 pp. $74.00 hardcover.0
The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto. By Bruce Douville. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 300 pp. Can$37.95 paper.0
Church and People in Interregnum Britain. Edited by Fiona McCall. RHS New Historical Perspectives. London: University of London Press, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $55.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.0
Monks and the Hierarchical Church in Egypt and the Levant during Late Antiquity. By Ewa Wipszycka, with a chapter on Persian Christians in Late Antiquity by Adam Izdebski. Translated by Damian Jasińsk0
Herbert Grundmann (1902–1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy. Translated by Steven Rowan. Edited by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 9. Suffolk: York M0
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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome. By Nicola Denzey Lewis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii + 426 pp. $44.99 hardcover.0
Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination. By Sarah G. Schaefer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pp. $125.00 hardcover.0
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging. By Lindsay J. Starkey. Environmental Humanities in P0
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism. Edited by Bernice M. Kaczynski and Thomas Sullivan OSB. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xix + 722 pp. $125 cloth.0
Found Christianities: Rethinking the World of the Second Century CE. By M. David Litwa. London: T&T Clark, 2022. xvi + 319 pp. $31.45 paper; $90.00 hardback.0
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power. By Jennifer Awes Freeman. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. xvii + 187 pp. $44.99 hardcover.0
Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital. By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos. Christianity in Late Antiquity Series 9. Oakland: University of California 0
A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War. By James P. Byrd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix + 392 pp. $34.95 cloth.0
Schützende Heilige des lateinischen Westens (370–600 n. Chr.). By Jan Seehusen. Beiträge zur Hagiographie 24. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 351 pp. 62.00 € paper.0
The Identities of Catherine de’ Medic. By Susan Broomhall. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 228. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021. xiv + 394 pp. €157.00/$189.00 hardback.0
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy. By James Morton. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. pp. I–XXIV + 312.0
Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome. By Irene Fosi. Translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. vi + 260 pp. €125.00/$151.00 hardcover.0
Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution. By David Neal Greenwood. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. xii + 177 pp. $55.00 cloth.0
The Theology and Ecclesiology of the Prayer Book Crisis, 1906–1928. By Dan D. Cruickshank. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. viii + 127 pp. $74.99 hardcover.0
City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. By Abram C. Van Engen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. ix + 379 pp. $30.00 hardcover.0
Roots of Reform: Contextual Interpretation of Church Fittings in Norfolk during the English Reformation. By Jason Robert Ladick. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. iv + 173 pp. £35.00 paper; £0
Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, a Life on the Catholic Left. By William Marling. New York: New York University Press, 2022. x + 319 pp. $45 cloth.0
Christian Persecution in Antiquity. By Wolfram Kinzig. Translated by Markus Bockmuehl. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. viii + 173 pp. $34.99 hardcover.0
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Levi's Vindication: The 1007 Anonymous “as It Really Is.” By Kenneth Stow. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2017. xvii + 250 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA. By Michael Graziano. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 251 pp. $45.00 cloth.0
Suffering, Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages. By Benjamin Wheaton. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. 264 pp. $26.99 paper.0
American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War Through the Council. By Joseph P. Chinnici. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 461 pp. $45.00 hardcover.0
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond. By L. Benjamin Rolsky. Columbia Series on Religion and Politics. New York: Columbia Universi0
To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing. By Tracy E. K'Meyer. Historical Studies of Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 240
An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Isu'yahb III and the Muslim Arabs. By Iskandar Beheiry. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 57. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2019. xiii + 191 pp. $80.67 cloth.0
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier. By Benjamin E. Park. New York: Liveright, 2020. 324 pp. $28.95 cloth.0
Surviving the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Cai Yongchun in the Cultural Revolution0
The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond: A New History of the English Province of the Friars Preachers. By Richard Finn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xix + 387pp. £90 hardba0
Piers Plowman: The A Version. Translated by Michael Calabrese. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. xlvii + 160 pp. $34.95 paperback.0
Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia. By Andrew Sargent. Studies in Regional and Local History 19. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire, 2020. xii + 290 pp.0
The Life and Theology of Alexander Knox: Anglicanism in the Age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. By David McCready. Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History 6. Leiden: Brill, 2020. vi + 324 pp. $69.000
Defending and Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature. By D. H. Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvii + 465 pp. $74.00 hardcover.0
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Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200–1700. Edited by Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 10. York, UK: York Medieval Press, 2022. xi + 346 pp. $105.00 cloth.0
Middletown Baptist Church, New Jersey. Edited by John D. Inscore Essick. Baptists in Early North America 8, series editor William H. Brackney. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2022. 290 pp. $60 clo0
American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War. By D. G. Hart. Religion and American Public Life. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. ix + 261 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe. By Per Pippin Aspass and László Kontler. Jesuit Studies 27. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x + 477 pp. $186.00 hardcover; open a0
Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity. By Sebastian P. Brock. Sebastianyotho 1. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2020. x + 380 pp. $179.00 cloth.0
Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, and Salvador Ryan. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. xvii + 420 pp. £99.99 hardcover; £94.99 e-boo0
The Evangelical Quadrilateral. By David Bebbington. 2 volumes. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. x + 382 pp.; x + 358 pp. $54.99 hardcover, $44.99 paperback.0
The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism. Edited by Jason E. Vickers and Jennifer Woodruff Tait. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xii + 523 pp. $39.99 paper.0
Fulfilling Prophecies on China's Ethnic Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Peripheral Peoples’ Encounter with Christianity in the Twentieth Century0
Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, vol. 180. Edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. xii0
The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity. Edited by Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. xi + 30
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