Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022046923000325
Matthew C. Bingham
{"title":"Between scholarship and church politics. The lives of John Prideaux, 1578–1650. By John Maddicott. Pp. xxii + 430 incl. frontispiece and 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75. 978 0 19 289610 0","authors":"Matthew C. Bingham","doi":"10.1017/S0022046923000325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046923000325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000659
N. Vincent
{"title":"National, local, family. History from Somerset's bishops' registers, 1264–1559. Somerset Record Society: extra series 2. Edited by Robert Dunning. (Somerset Record Society.) Pp. ix + 153. Bristol: 4word Limited, 2022. £21 (paper). 978 0 901732 50 7","authors":"N. Vincent","doi":"10.1017/s0022046923000659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046923000659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47364651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022046923000623
H. van den Belt
{"title":"Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, freedom, and contingency. An early modern Reformed voice. By Andreas J. Beck. (Church History and Religious Culture, 84.) Pp. xvi + 616. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €189. 978 90 04 50438 7; 1572 4107","authors":"H. van den Belt","doi":"10.1017/S0022046923000623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046923000623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43936820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000714
Donald K. Mckim
Richard A. Muller). Pp. xx + . Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, . JEH () ; doi:./S Calvin’s doctrine of the Church is crucial to his theology. But, as Richard Muller notes, Calvin’s ecclesiology ‘has received comparatively less attention than other doctrinal topics’ (p. ix). This makes Maruyama’s work most welcomed. This veteran Reformation scholar treats Calvin’s views chronologically through the Reformer’s ‘Academic formation and Catholic ecclesiology’; to ‘The early Genevan reformation and practice of Catholic ecclesiology’; on to ‘The Strassbourg period and a transition to new rcclesiologies’ and finally, ‘Reformed ecclesiology and Reformation ecclesiology’. By ‘Reformed ecclesiology’, Maruyama means ‘Calvin’s Reformed ecclesiology’, which he had formulated in consultation with, as well as in distinction from, other Evangelical Reformers’ (p. ). Maruyama sees the third edition of Calvin’s Institutes () as ‘the most important edition for understanding Calvin’s concept of the church’s form’ (p. ). Also important was Calvin’s First Corinthians commentary (). Maruyama agrees with Doumergue’s assertion about the importance of the edition for Calvin’s ecclesiology: ‘after it is finished; adds nothing’ (p. ). materials are almost ‘completely carried over into the final edition [ – Latin; – French] in a more easily understood expression, it occupies ten chapters (chs iii-xii), just about one half of book IV of the Institutes’ (p. ). Maruyama characterises the addition as representing ‘what is generally described as church government or polity’. The ‘main thrust of all its arguments is the sharp contrast between church government based upon scriptural norm and that of the papal church’ (p. ). Maruyama insists that ‘Reformation ecclesiology’ is ‘not a theological but a historical concept’. It was an attempt to conceive ‘salvation history in the church of the Reformation era’ (p. ). It is true that ‘the theological framework of the so-called ‘Calvin’s ecclesiology’ in book IV of the Institutes defined his Reformation ecclesiology. Yet, Reformation ecclesiology as a historical concept indicates his understanding of the entire Church and its reform from Luther’s time to his own’. Calvin’s aim was ‘to place his own idea of the Evangelical church and its reform in that frame’ (p. ). In his Institutes with its book IV titled: ‘The external means or aids by which God invites us into the society of Christ and holds us therein’, Maruyama indicates ‘Calvin had recognised “an urgent need for formulating” the external “form” of the Evangelical Churches that would be able to counter the Roman Catholic hierarchy’ (p. ). Maruyama’s thorough historical study of the impact of the early Reformation context on Calvin and his shaping of a Reformed ecclesiology is an important contribution to our understandings of Calvin’s views on the Chu
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000611
Tom Schwanda
{"title":"Experiencing God in late medieval and early modern England. By David J. Davis. Pp. xiv + 223 incl. 18 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75. 978 0 19 883413 7","authors":"Tom Schwanda","doi":"10.1017/s0022046923000611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046923000611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42487240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000891
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s002204692300074x
T. Cooper
{"title":"The Reformed and celibate pastor. Richard Baxter's argument for clerical celibacy. By Seth D. Osborne, Pp. 417. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. €150. 978 3 525 56046 4","authors":"T. Cooper","doi":"10.1017/s002204692300074x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204692300074x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45514792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022046923000635
W. Gibson
amount of technical jargon to stop it being a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is the published form of a doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Hamburg in , and focuses intensively on the seventeenth-century Orthodox Cretan scholar who became Metropolitan bishop of Philadelphia (hierarch in charge of the Greek community in the Venice region), who lived at different times in Candia when Crete was under a siege from the Ottoman Phanar (a military campaign that ultimately lasted twenty-one years), as well as in Venice and Corfu. The work uses, at first-hand, and very professionally, archival material from the libraries of Heraklion and Athens as well as the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine studies in Venice, the Venetian State Archives and the Biblioteca Marciana. It is undoubtedly a deep analysis of Gerasimos Vlachos’s scholarly and political world (particularly of the hierarch’s extensive personal library), and points the reader to extensive bibliographic support material. The scholar-bishop emerges as a man of liberal and ecumenical spirit, though siding with Catholic theological trends (which he saw as in general harmony with the ancient traditions) and consistently hostile to Protestant ideas. He had admiration for the learning of the Jesuits and his library contained many of the major theological writers of the medieval West alongside a core of patristic texts. His leadership of the Greek Venetian community was one that was determined to emphasise (and support) Hellenism’s intellectual and cultural heritage, but also to advocate the necessity in this time and era of forming alliances with the Catholic West in the face of Ottoman domination to the East and Protestant expansion in the West. He held the Republic of La Serenissima in high esteem and both valued and learned from its open-minded culture. His overarching cultural aim was to rally the Greek community (much in the traditional Byzantine manner) by a double appeal to the Hellenic spirit of paideia and the patristic sense of ecclesial fidelity. This is a work that will be useful to both Ottoman andModern Hellenic studies.
{"title":"Friends, neighbours, sinners. Religious difference and English society, 1689–1750. By Carys Brown. (Studies in Modern British History). Pp. x + 284 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £75. 978 1 00 922138 2","authors":"W. Gibson","doi":"10.1017/S0022046923000635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046923000635","url":null,"abstract":"amount of technical jargon to stop it being a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is the published form of a doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Hamburg in , and focuses intensively on the seventeenth-century Orthodox Cretan scholar who became Metropolitan bishop of Philadelphia (hierarch in charge of the Greek community in the Venice region), who lived at different times in Candia when Crete was under a siege from the Ottoman Phanar (a military campaign that ultimately lasted twenty-one years), as well as in Venice and Corfu. The work uses, at first-hand, and very professionally, archival material from the libraries of Heraklion and Athens as well as the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine studies in Venice, the Venetian State Archives and the Biblioteca Marciana. It is undoubtedly a deep analysis of Gerasimos Vlachos’s scholarly and political world (particularly of the hierarch’s extensive personal library), and points the reader to extensive bibliographic support material. The scholar-bishop emerges as a man of liberal and ecumenical spirit, though siding with Catholic theological trends (which he saw as in general harmony with the ancient traditions) and consistently hostile to Protestant ideas. He had admiration for the learning of the Jesuits and his library contained many of the major theological writers of the medieval West alongside a core of patristic texts. His leadership of the Greek Venetian community was one that was determined to emphasise (and support) Hellenism’s intellectual and cultural heritage, but also to advocate the necessity in this time and era of forming alliances with the Catholic West in the face of Ottoman domination to the East and Protestant expansion in the West. He held the Republic of La Serenissima in high esteem and both valued and learned from its open-minded culture. His overarching cultural aim was to rally the Greek community (much in the traditional Byzantine manner) by a double appeal to the Hellenic spirit of paideia and the patristic sense of ecclesial fidelity. This is a work that will be useful to both Ottoman andModern Hellenic studies.","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48030986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000787
Philip R. Wood
{"title":"Byzantium and Islam. Collected studies on Byzantine–Muslim encounters. By Daniel J. Sahas. Pp. xviii + 531. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €149. 978 90 04 47044 6","authors":"Philip R. Wood","doi":"10.1017/s0022046923000787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046923000787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45146,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48167297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022046923000684
S. Bruce
(he remains ambivalent on this point) with a first edition of the Toledoth is surely an overly-ambitious conclusion on the basis of the evidence, even if the current reviewer is broadly sympathetic to that thesis (inter alia it is also notable in this respect that for whatever reason the claims of Celsus’ Jew, let alone his own work, finds very little imprint in later anti-pagan polemic – if it was a first edition of the Toledoth, it was a generative work and we might expect more reference to it). In arguing his case, not only does Tijsseling make some false assertions (for instance, the earliest manuscripts of the Toledoth are not fourth-century [p. ], but date from some six centuries later) but he also fails to take sufficient account of the objections some have raised to this kind of a thesis (there is no clear presentation of Schäfer’s arguments on this matter, though Schäfer and Meerson’s work is cited). His decision to focus on the Toledoth for parallels to what the Jew says about Jesus is valid (specific and exclusive parallels are not as great as he maintains, however) but he barely mentions other anti-Jesus traditions found in the rabbinic literature, which are similar to claims we find attributed to Celsus’ Jew but often distanced by scholars from the Toledoth stream. Finally, it was not entirely clear to me what was added by the chapter on Plato. The criticisms of Jesus Celsus derives from Plato are generally of a different order to those we find mentioned by the Jew (the Jew does appear Hellenised, even if his criticisms of Jesus by and large are not of a philosophical kind); and few would doubt now that Celsus is some kind of a Platonist. In spite of these criticisms, this volume remains a useful addition to the burgeoning literature on Celsus’ sources for his account of Jesus. Its achievement, however, lies more in the systematic presentation of the evidence than in the originality of the conclusions reached.
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