A History of Church History: Studies in Some Historians of the Christian Church By Frederick John Foakes Jackson. Cambridge (England): W. Heffer and Sons, 1939. vii, 184 pages. 7s. 6d.

1940 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-86
Author(s):  
John T. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of

The Libelli of the Decian Persecution

1923 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Knipfing
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

Despite the admirable “Licht vom Osten” of Adolf Deissmann and the more recent studies of Cumont, Bousset, Norden, and Reitzenstein, the student of the history of religions can still set his plough to much fruitful soil in the field of the papyri. Even the intensively cultivated domain of church history could be broadened and enriched by studies derived from such data in their application to problems of Christian institutional and constitutional development, of monasticism, and of the sociological aspects of the church's expansion. In another quarter, that of the persecutions, the papyri have helped to an understanding of the genre littéraire of the Acts of the Martyrs, and to a more accurate conception of the relations of Roman state and Christian church. This last we owe particularly to the finds of Libelli from the period of the Decian persecution.

Methodism and Providence: a Study in Secularization

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 51-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell E. Richey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Indelible Mark ◽  
Research Seminar ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Society

In 1884, the American Historical Association was founded. Four years later, in 1888, the American Society of Church History came into being. The two events, the founding of the ASCH as well as of the AHA, belong to the larger saga of late nineteenth century professional formation. In field after field, amateur and patrician endeavours fell before what seemed a common strategy to consolidate, standardize, resource, institutionalize, and professionalize. The relation of the ASCH to the AHA is instructive. The two organizations shared much. Both drew significantly upon the idiom and structures of German historical scholarship. The guiding spirit of the AHA, Herbert Baxter Adams, plied his German training in a research seminar at Johns Hopkins whose methods and graduates swept historical efforts across the nation into the AHA orbit. His counterpart, Philip Schaff, conceived the ASCH in comparable instrumental and imperialistic terms. German-born, trained by Ferdinand Christian Baur and Johann A. W. Neander, Schaff put an indelible mark on the field of church history. The scholarship attests the leadership and legacy: a 13-volume American Church History Series (1893-7), his own 6-volume History of the Christian Church (1882-92), a 3-volumc Religious Encyclopaedia (1882-4), adapted from that of J.J. Hcrzog, the 3-volumc Creeds of Christendom (1877), and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, the two series of which ran to 28 and 14 volumes (1886-9, 1890–1900).

Some Recent Studies of American Church History

1978 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
W. R. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
History Of

In a little over 400 pages Robert T. Handy's volume of the Oxford History of the Christian Church surveys more than four hundred years, two countries of vast geographical extent, almost 300 million people, fifteen churches claiming over two million members each, innumerable smaller churches, denominations and sects. One cannot but admire the tenacity with which he has carried out this daunting task, and be grateful for a critical bibliography of over 30 pages which will be invaluable for anyone who requires a quick guide to the literature on almost any aspect of American or Canadian Church history. The presentation is clear, and the stream—or torrent—of information is handled with skill.

scholarly journals Report on a Proposed Series of Denominational Histories to be Published under the Auspices of the American Society of Church History

1891 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
Albert Henry Newman
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Intention To Continue ◽  
Church Historians

It seems unfortunate that a matter of so great importance as the enterprise before us should run the risk of receiving less attention than it deserves from wanting a worthier advocate. It may not be out of place if I relate some of the circumstances that have led to my occupying the present position.Early in 1887, in a conversation with Dr. Schaff, I learned with regret that it was not his intention to continue his admirable “History of the Christian Church” beyond the middle of the seventeenth century. His determination to close his work at this date was due, as I remember, to two considerations—advancing age and fulness of occupation, and the complexity of more recent Church history that makes it more suitable for monographic treatment than for treatment in general works. This conversation suggested to me the desirability of a uniform series of denominational histories, written, as far as possible, in the spirit of Dr. Schaff's general history, and, in a sense, forming a continuation of that work. My thought was that each monograph should be prepared by one of the best qualified Church historians of the denomination of which it should treat, and that the series should be prepared under a general editorship.

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