During the eleventh century canon law collections, generated for different purposes but including the same texts, were used in the reform of the Church. The author presents a comparative study of important texts in collections such as the Collectio Lanfranci, an abridged version of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals used in the reform of the English Church. A close study of the manuscripts provides insight into Lanfranc of Bec’s legal thinking and his position as ruler.
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Early Modern European The Reformation: A Brief History. By Kenneth G. Appold. [Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series.] (Maiden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. Pp. xi, 203. $84.95 clothbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-1749-4; $29.95 paperback, 9781-40511750-0.)Not long ago, a prominent German historian of the Reformation lamented that "we have lost the Reformation." In fact, a search for new books on the subject reveals that it is more than holding its own. At least nineteen general studies have appeared in English since the mid-1990s, plus another thirteen in German. Most eschew both the nineteenth-century elevation of Martin Luther as the godfather of Western civilization and the twentieth-century defense of Luther's theology as a metahistorical vision. In 1995 Bernd Moeller reminded theologians that "history makes no somersaults, and Luther was no miracle-worker who fell to earth."1Many of the new works share a view of Luther and his Reformation as not the dawn of modernity but the fruition of medieval Christendom. Just as prominent is the tendency to replace the classic (Protestant) singular- "The Reformation"- with a concept of plural reformations- Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic. These changes reveal a shift of focus from theological ideas to religious practice and a setting of the Reformation less in European history and more in the general history of Christianity.Each of these shifts is visible in The Reformation: A Brief History by Kenneth G. Appold of Princeton Theological Seminary. The Reformation occurred, he writes, "within a larger dynamic driven by the Christianization of Europe" (p. ix). Its agent was a church that was neither static nor backward, driven by the dialectical movements of its two heritages: the Roman legacy of hierarchical institutionalization and the Celtic "ethical" drive toward "the moral and spiritual transformation of individual lives and communities" (p. ix). Medieval Christendom experienced an immense evolutionary dialectic between an aim to manage the world and a desire to overcome it.The downshift from such great landscapes to the person and thought of Luther is a stock device of general works on the subject. Here Appold does not disappoint, as his second chapter bores into Luther as a "phenomenon" (p. 43) composed of heritages, actions, personality, and theological and other ideas. Although its rhetorical color and strong narrative make chapter 2 the book's liveliest chapter, there is no appeal to Luther's "genius" as the moving force. Rather, Luther's reformation comes as an acceleration, not a negation, of the medieval dialectic and brings both successes and failures. Appold explains the most fateful of the latter, the German Peasants' War, by Luther's formation in an urban world that was climbing for economic hegemony over the vast landscapes of traditional, rural Europe. …
{"title":"The Reformation: A Brief History (review)","authors":"T. Brady","doi":"10.1353/CAT.2012.0261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CAT.2012.0261","url":null,"abstract":"Early Modern European The Reformation: A Brief History. By Kenneth G. Appold. [Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series.] (Maiden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. Pp. xi, 203. $84.95 clothbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-1749-4; $29.95 paperback, 9781-40511750-0.)Not long ago, a prominent German historian of the Reformation lamented that \"we have lost the Reformation.\" In fact, a search for new books on the subject reveals that it is more than holding its own. At least nineteen general studies have appeared in English since the mid-1990s, plus another thirteen in German. Most eschew both the nineteenth-century elevation of Martin Luther as the godfather of Western civilization and the twentieth-century defense of Luther's theology as a metahistorical vision. In 1995 Bernd Moeller reminded theologians that \"history makes no somersaults, and Luther was no miracle-worker who fell to earth.\"1Many of the new works share a view of Luther and his Reformation as not the dawn of modernity but the fruition of medieval Christendom. Just as prominent is the tendency to replace the classic (Protestant) singular- \"The Reformation\"- with a concept of plural reformations- Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic. These changes reveal a shift of focus from theological ideas to religious practice and a setting of the Reformation less in European history and more in the general history of Christianity.Each of these shifts is visible in The Reformation: A Brief History by Kenneth G. Appold of Princeton Theological Seminary. The Reformation occurred, he writes, \"within a larger dynamic driven by the Christianization of Europe\" (p. ix). Its agent was a church that was neither static nor backward, driven by the dialectical movements of its two heritages: the Roman legacy of hierarchical institutionalization and the Celtic \"ethical\" drive toward \"the moral and spiritual transformation of individual lives and communities\" (p. ix). Medieval Christendom experienced an immense evolutionary dialectic between an aim to manage the world and a desire to overcome it.The downshift from such great landscapes to the person and thought of Luther is a stock device of general works on the subject. Here Appold does not disappoint, as his second chapter bores into Luther as a \"phenomenon\" (p. 43) composed of heritages, actions, personality, and theological and other ideas. Although its rhetorical color and strong narrative make chapter 2 the book's liveliest chapter, there is no appeal to Luther's \"genius\" as the moving force. Rather, Luther's reformation comes as an acceleration, not a negation, of the medieval dialectic and brings both successes and failures. Appold explains the most fateful of the latter, the German Peasants' War, by Luther's formation in an urban world that was climbing for economic hegemony over the vast landscapes of traditional, rural Europe. …","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"98 1","pages":"806 - 808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CAT.2012.0261","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. H. Minnich, Joshua C. Benson, H. Hillerbrand, S. Ditchfield, P. Grendler, Brad S. Gregory
In an effort to understand how contemporary American society came to be with its hyperpluralism of religious beliefs, emphasis on individual human rights, and dedication to consumerism, Brad S. Gregory looks for answers not to the Enlightenment, but to earlier eras, especially that of the Protestant Reformation. He approaches his topic from six intertwined perspectives: excluding God, relativizing doctrines, controlling the churches, subjectivizing morality, manufacturing the goods life, and secularizing knowledge. His investigation crosses national boundaries; sweeps across the centuries; and engages the disciplines of theology, philosophy, political science, sociology, economics, and even popular culture. An introduction explains his genealogical method and his conception of change over time, a conclusion summarizes his findings, and 145 pages of notes provide references to primary and up-to-date secondary literature in multiple languages.His writing style is lucid and even witty at times:“Whatever!”
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{"title":"Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of St. Peter's in the Renaissance","authors":"T. Izbicki","doi":"10.5860/choice.49-0670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-0670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"98 1","pages":"624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71135005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Regarding the translation, Dyson claims to improve on the translation of E. G. Doyle (Sedulius Scottus: On Christian Rulers and the Poems [Binghamton, NY, 1983]), which he considers “often unduly free” (p. 21). A literal translation of an obscure passage, however, is no help, as seen in the Preface, lines 4–5, when Sedulius writes, “Artibus egregiis sapientia Celsitonantis/Praeposuit hominem cunctis animalibus orbis.”The translation “By excellent arts the wisdom of the Heavenly Thunderer/Has set man over all the creatures of the world”(p.45) misses the point that God has given arts to humans:“The wisdom of the heavenly-thunderer set man by means of excellent arts before all the animals of the world.”
{"title":"Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish (review)","authors":"D. Luscombe","doi":"10.1353/CAT.2012.0212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CAT.2012.0212","url":null,"abstract":"Regarding the translation, Dyson claims to improve on the translation of E. G. Doyle (Sedulius Scottus: On Christian Rulers and the Poems [Binghamton, NY, 1983]), which he considers “often unduly free” (p. 21). A literal translation of an obscure passage, however, is no help, as seen in the Preface, lines 4–5, when Sedulius writes, “Artibus egregiis sapientia Celsitonantis/Praeposuit hominem cunctis animalibus orbis.”The translation “By excellent arts the wisdom of the Heavenly Thunderer/Has set man over all the creatures of the world”(p.45) misses the point that God has given arts to humans:“The wisdom of the heavenly-thunderer set man by means of excellent arts before all the animals of the world.”","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"98 1","pages":"531 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CAT.2012.0212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ninety-second annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association was held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and affiliated societies at the Marriott Miracle Mile Downtown Chicago, Illinois, from Thursday to Sunday, January 5–8,2012. A special thanks goes to Ellen Skerrett (Jane Addams Papers Project) and Malachy R. McCarthy (Claretian Missionaries Archives USA) for their efforts in developing the Chicago program. Without their leadership, the conference would not have been a success.
{"title":"The Ninety-Second Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association","authors":"American Catholic Historical Association","doi":"10.1353/cat.2012.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2012.0098","url":null,"abstract":"The ninety-second annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association was held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and affiliated societies at the Marriott Miracle Mile Downtown Chicago, Illinois, from Thursday to Sunday, January 5–8,2012. A special thanks goes to Ellen Skerrett (Jane Addams Papers Project) and Malachy R. McCarthy (Claretian Missionaries Archives USA) for their efforts in developing the Chicago program. Without their leadership, the conference would not have been a success.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"98 1","pages":"301 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2012-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2012.0098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66398556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dr. Nunis, born in Cedartown, Georgia, on May 30, 1924, established the Oral History Program at UCLA and later spent the majority of his professional career as professor at the University of Southern California.After his conversion to the faith in the 1950s, he became active in promoting the history of the Catholic Church in California. He served as president for the Friends of the Santa Barbara Mission Archives since 1972, was founding president for the Friends of the Archival Center for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and was a member of the American Catholic Historical Association since April 1973. A spokesman for the Serra Bicentennial Commission, he was known in the local community for his support of efforts to promote the telling of local church history.
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During the mid-1960s a few Catholic journals and individuals advised that a more active role should be taken in defeating abortion reform. In 1967 the National Conference of Catholic Bishops selected James Thomas McHugh, administrator of the United States Catholic Conference’s Family Life Bureau, to guide its National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). Several pro-life organizations, including Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, emerged and affiliated with the NRLC national office. To appeal to a more broad-based, nonsectarian movement, key Minnesota leaders proposed an organizational model that would separate the NRLC from its founder. In early 1973 McHugh and his executive assistant, Michael Taylor, proposed a different plan, facilitating the NRLC’s move to independence.
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reporting to the religious as well as civilian authorities on anything that might have threatened the Pax Gallica on the colonial frontier, constituted an unmatched source of dependable intelligence on the ground.Their efficiency was, however, hampered by competition between religious orders both in metropolitan France and in each of these colonies, while the relationship between overzealous bishops and a fiercely secular colonial administration was anything but easy, as show in the case of Bishop Paul-François Puginier, the vicar apostolic in Hanoi. Devotion to the Mère-Patrie could indeed take many forms, some happening to be plainly contradictory.
{"title":"Clemens von Alexandrien: Sein Leben, Werk und philosophisch-theologisches Denken (review)","authors":"Annewies van den Hoek","doi":"10.1353/cat.0.0876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.0.0876","url":null,"abstract":"reporting to the religious as well as civilian authorities on anything that might have threatened the Pax Gallica on the colonial frontier, constituted an unmatched source of dependable intelligence on the ground.Their efficiency was, however, hampered by competition between religious orders both in metropolitan France and in each of these colonies, while the relationship between overzealous bishops and a fiercely secular colonial administration was anything but easy, as show in the case of Bishop Paul-François Puginier, the vicar apostolic in Hanoi. Devotion to the Mère-Patrie could indeed take many forms, some happening to be plainly contradictory.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"96 1","pages":"506 - 508"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2010-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.0.0876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66395939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}