Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001385
Jennifer Otto
This article evaluates Origen's criticism of Christian participation in the Roman army in relation to two prominent themes in his writings: the moral progress of the Christian and the role of demons in God's providence. I argue that, for Origen, to be a Christian is to be a soldier, albeit one whose adversaries are not human combatants, but the Devil and his angels. The battle is won when Christians refrain from sinning, attaining moral perfection through their study of the scriptures, and adoption of ascetic practices. By avoiding the physical battlefield, Christians remain unsullied by the passions that inflame the soldier, enabling them to fight demons more effectively. But this spiritual combat is not without risks to the physical body. As Origen's Exhortation to Martyrdom attests, execution could be the providentially ordered outcome of a Christian's combat against demons. Origen presents the violent persecution of Christians as consistent with divine providence and martyrdom as a gift of God to the church. His opposition to Christian military participation is rooted neither in a wholesale rejection of warfare nor a deep respect for embodied life, but in his concern for human moral progress—progress that could be advanced by providentially sanctioned violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001907
Erica Buchberger
Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours. By Tamar Rotman. Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 196 pp. $114.00 cloth or ebook PDF. - Volume 92 Issue 2
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001920
Una M. Cadegan
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001324
Leigh E. Schmidt
At 846 pages, Mark Noll's history of what he labels America's Protestant Bible civilization certainly has the feel of encyclopedic comprehensiveness. That this hefty volume is but the second portion of Noll's larger history of the Bible in America only adds to the sense of grand summation: the synoptic account of how the scriptures have shaped the nation—its public life, moral order, political divisions, and otherworldly hopes. It is a story filled not only with Protestant successes—the massive publishing program of the American Bible Society or the scriptural suffusion of popular hymnody and everyday devotion—but also with Protestant failures, most obviously in the way nothing-but-the-Bible moral reasoning compounded the abiding divisions over slavery. Indeed, at the end of the day, Noll presents this as a story of loss more than triumph: the decline and fragmentation of a Protestant Bible civilization that had been built amid all the contingencies of a new republic. That narrative arc carries an obvious element of regret that could certainly feed a white evangelical nostalgia for a Christian America, but that is clearly not Noll's intent. Especially on matters of slavery and race, his account is one far more of reproof than reclamation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001555
Scott McGinnis
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{"title":"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.","authors":"Scott McGinnis","doi":"10.1017/s0009640723001555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640723001555","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":45669,"journal":{"name":"CHURCH HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001828
Kipton Jensen
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001336
Grant Wacker
If a random member of the American Society of Church History (ASCH) were asked to select four individuals to go on a new Mount Rushmore of “Most Influential American Religious Historians,” I would wager that Mark Noll would make the cut pretty easily. After many years of laboring in the deep trenches of undergraduate education at Wheaton College, and then the even deeper trenches of graduate education at the University of Notre Dame, he now brings us America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 , the second in a brace of massively researched studies of the Bible's role in American life.
如果让美国教会历史学会(ASCH)的一个随机成员选出四个人，登上新的拉什莫尔山“最具影响力的美国宗教历史学家”，我敢打赌马克·诺尔会很容易入选。在惠顿学院(Wheaton College)深耕本科教育多年之后，他又在圣母大学(University of Notre Dame)深耕研究生教育多年。现在，他为我们带来了《美国之书:圣经文明的兴衰，1794-1911》，这是一系列关于圣经在美国生活中的作用的大规模研究中的第二本。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001580
Giovanni R. Ruffini
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{"title":"The Monasteries and Monks of Nubia. By Artur Obłuski. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. xxii + 414 pp. € 90.00, hardback.","authors":"Giovanni R. Ruffini","doi":"10.1017/s0009640723001580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640723001580","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":45669,"journal":{"name":"CHURCH HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001610
James Hudnut-Beumler
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. - Volume 92 Issue 2
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001622
Rebecca A. Devlin
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{"title":"The Slaves of the Churches: A History. By Mary E. Sommar. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 2020. xi + 268 pp. $38.95 hardcover.","authors":"Rebecca A. Devlin","doi":"10.1017/s0009640723001622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640723001622","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":45669,"journal":{"name":"CHURCH HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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