Books received

Church History, Sept, 2008

Halverson, James L., Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and Culture. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

Harrison, Peter, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Heal, Bridget, The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Hedda, Jennifer, His Kingdom Come: Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008.

Hindmarsh, Bruce D., The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hobgood-Oster, Laura, Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Holtrop, Pieter, and Henk Slechte, eds., Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and their Archives, 1703-1917. Brill's Series in Church History 29. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Irons, Charles F., The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Israel, Charles A., Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Jackson, Nicholas D., Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Jaenike, William F., Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits. Minneapolis, Minn.: Kirk House, 2008.

Kaiser, Wolfram, Christian Democracy and the Origins of the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Kyle HI, I. Francis, An Uncommon Christian: James Brainerd Taylor; Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008.

Kolb, Robert, and Charles P. Arand, The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenburg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Komonchak, Joseph A., Who Are the Church? The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology 2008. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2008.

Lambert, Frank, Religion in American Politics: A Short History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Leuchter, Mark, The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Levenson, Jon D., Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006.

Lindberg, Carter, Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity. Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008.

Livingstone, David N., Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, & the Politics of Human Origins. Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.