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“We Slay Demons”: Moral Progress and Origen's Pacifism 《我们杀死恶魔》:道德进步与奥利金的和平主义

2区哲学

CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001385

Jennifer Otto

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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. 六世纪高卢的圣徒、史学和身份:对图尔的格列高利的再思考。塔玛·罗特曼著。古代晚期和中世纪的社会世界。阿姆斯特丹:阿姆斯特丹大学出版社，2022。196页。$114.00布或电子书PDF。

2区哲学

CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001907

Erica Buchberger

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Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts. By Aidan Nichols. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2022. 218 pp. $17.95 paper. 西格丽德·温塞特:心之读者。艾丹·尼科尔斯著。旧金山，加州:伊格内修斯出版社，2022。218页，17.95美元。

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CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001920

Una M. Cadegan

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Rethinking the Decline of a Bible Civilization 重新思考圣经文明的衰落

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CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001324

Leigh E. Schmidt

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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. 拯救英国教会:约翰·爱德华兹(1637-1716)作为持不同政见者。丹尼尔·c·诺曼著。Eugene, OR: Wipf &股票,2022年。12 + 292页，精装本58.00美元;38.00美元。

2区哲学

CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001555

Scott McGinnis

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The Fellowship Church: Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left. By Amanda Brown. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. xix + 236 pp. $99.00 cloth. 团契教会：霍华德-瑟曼与二十世纪宗教左派。阿曼达-布朗著。英国牛津：牛津大学出版社，2021 年。xix + 236 pp.99.00 美元布版。

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CHURCH HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723001828

Kipton Jensen

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Introduction: ASCH Panel on Mark A. Noll, America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 864 pp., $39.95 hardcover 简介:ASCH小组对马克·a·诺尔，美国的书:《圣经文明的兴衰，1794-1911》(纽约:牛津大学出版社，2022)，864页，39.95美元精装