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Journeys in Church History
Essays from the Catholic Historical Review
Edited by Nelson H. Minnich
Imprint: Catholic University of America Press
This collection of essays is taken from the pages of The Catholic Historical Review, the official organ of the American Catholic Historical Association and the only scholarly journal under Catholic auspices in the English-speaking world devoted to the history of the Universal Church. Journeys in Church History offers reflections from six leading contemporary church historians, who describe in their own words how they have come to practice their craft. They trace their family and educational backgrounds, the themes that attracted their attention, the challenges they encountered in researching them, the new methodologies they adopted to answer questions, and the reception given to their findings. They also tell of their experiences in the classroom, both as students and teachers, the difficulties they encountered in their careers due to prejudices based on gender or religion, and how the discipline of church history has changed over their lifetimes. Their often entertaining accounts will serve to inform and inspire fellow historians, both young and old.
The contributors to this volume are: Elizabeth Clark, who pioneered studies of the role of women in the early Church. Caroline Bynum showed how Christians viewed gender and the human body. Jean Delumeau studies the religious attitudes (mentalité) of the ordinary faithful and how these were shaped during the medieval and early modern periods. John W. O'Mally documents that Renaissance humanism was not pagan but profoundly Christian. The promotion of institutions of higher education under the auspices of the Catholic Church in America has been studied by J. Philip Gleason. Margaret Lavinia Anderson was among the first to use computers to analyze voting patterns in modern Germany and thus determine the influence of the Center Party.
Nelson Minnich holds a joint-position as full professor in the Church History program of the School of Theology and Religious Studies and in the History Department at The Catholic University of America. Since 2005 he has been editor of The Catholic Historical Review.
"this book concluded with the unexpected benefit of encouraging my own faith, something I was not expecting from a collection of memoir-like reflections on the intellectual life… these essays reveal the way, often subtle, in which God guides and directs our lives. I doubt that this was an explicit goal of the volume but it is a pleasant outcome of reading these essays, which I highly commend."
~Greg Peters, Biola University, Worship Magazine