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In writing this review I am in no small danger of running short of superlatives. To put it simply, this is a sublime scholarly achievement. Knowing the intense labour and demanding exactitude of a project like this, I am very impressed. It is difficult to conceive how Chad van Dixhoorn could have done a better job of putting these minutes and papers at the service of the scholarly community. He had help along the way, to be sure, and the skilful guidance of David F. Wright and John Morrill, but one quickly gets the sense that this is the fruit of his singular vision. If we count his years as a Cambridge PhD student, van Dixhoorn has worked full-time on the Westminster Assembly for longer than it existed in the first place. I recall being told that he had calculated (I think with tape measure in hand) that, yes, all the members of the assembly could squeeze into the smallish Jerusalem Chamber in which they met; he had even taken a shrewd guess, based on the voting records, as to which groups of divines sat next to whom, and where. He once had a dream, he tells us, in which one of the Scottish commissioners to the assembly, Samuel Rutherford, offered to help interpret the nearly impenetrable handwriting of the assembly's main scribe, Adoniram Byfield. It is as good an indication as any of the all-consuming nature of van Dixhoorn's task. Perhaps we should add here a note of thanks not just to him (and his assistants) but to his wife and children as well. For this set represents a generous gift to scholars of the seventeenth century and to all those interested in the development of Reformed Protestantism in the English–speaking world and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Papers from two conferences held in 2019, the 350th anniversary of Susanna Wesley's birth Also, despite their growing "respectability", Victorian Methodists were sometimes reminded of their revivalist roots by American Methodist preachers, such as Phoebe Palmer, whose 1859-63 visit to Britain is discussed by Tim Woolley. As is shown by John Lenton, John Wesley's willingness to trust the "extraordinary" callings of lay preachers stemmed from Susanna's intervention. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Elite and Popular Religion. Papers Read at the 2004 Summer Meeting and the 2005 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

A review of the book "The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity: Selected Papers From the Seventh Biennial 'Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity' Conference," edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski is presented.

The article reviews the books "Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land," by Norman Housley; "The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions: Papers From the Sixth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 August 2004," edited by Thomas F. Madden; and "Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia c. 1095-c. 1187," by William J. Purkis.

The article reviews the books "Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers From the Thirty-Sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002," edited by Andrew Louth and Augustine Casiday, and "Byzantine Christianity," edited by Derek Krueger.

Reviews the book "The Work of Heiko A. Oberman. Papers From the Symposium on His Seventieth Birthday, edited by Thomas A. Brady, Jr, Katherine G. Brady, Susan Karant-Nunn and James D. Tracy.

Reviews the book "The Archeology of Reformation, 1480-1580. Papers Given at the Archeology of Reformation Conference, February 2001, Hosted Jointly by the Society for Medieval Archeology and the Society for Post-Medieval Archeology," edited by David Gaimster and Roberta Gilchrist.

Reviews the book 'The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France. Papers from the Exeter Conference, April 1999,' edited by Keith Cameron, Mark Greengrass and Penny Roberts.

A review of the book "Reconsidering Eusebius. Collected papers on literary, historical, and theological issues," edited by Sabrina Inowlocki and Claudio Zamagni, volume 107 in the book series entitled "Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language," is presented.

The article reviews the book "Intersections. The archaeology and history of Christianity in England, 400–1200. Papers in honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle," edited by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay.

The article reviews the book "The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul: Papers Read at the 2007 Summer Meeting & the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon.

The article reviews the book "Discipline and Diversity. Papers Read at the 2005 Summer Meeting and the 2006 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

The article reviews the books "Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. New Essays," edited by Lawrence Besserman, and "Scripture and Pluralism. Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Papers Presented at the First Annual Symposium of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 21-22, 2002," edited by Thomas J. Heffernan and Thomas E. Burman.

The article reviews the book "The Military Orders and the Reformation. Choices, State Building, and the Weight of Tradition. Papers of the Utrecht Conference, 30 September-2 October 2004," edited by Johannes A. Mol, Klaus Militzer and Helen J. Nicholson.

Review the book "The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art. On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contracts in the 16th-17th Centuries. Papers From the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999," edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boavida.

Reviews the book "Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation. Papers Read at the 2002 Summer Meeting and the 2003 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

Reviews the book "The Church and Mary. Papers Read at the 2001 Summer Meeting and the 2002 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by R. N. Swanson.

Reviews the book "The Medieval English Cathedral. Papers in Honour of Pamela Tudor-Craig," edited by Janet Backhouse.

Reviews the book "Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Number Fifty-Six," edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.

The article reviews the book "Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers From Prison. A Biography," by Martin E. Marty, part of the book series Lives of Great Religious Books.

A review of the book "Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East: Select Papers From the SBL Meeting in San Diego 2007," edited by Vahan S. Hovhanessian is presented.

Review the book "Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch. Papers From a Colloquium London, 15th December 2001," edited by Isabella Sandwell and Janet Huskinson.

Further, while the book pledges to show Campbell's global influence, not much space is devoted to this facet beyond a short statement that a majority of the eight million in Campbell's movement today are outside the United States. Although Campbell's statements could appear contradictory, Foster claims that the Lunenburg letter articles of 1837 provide the best window into Campbell's central convictions. Due to many of Campbell's papers being lost, Foster relies on Richardson (who did have access to Campbell's archive), but he carefully interrogates Richardson's account, routinely employing a source critical approach. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England. Exeter Symposium VII. Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2004," edited by E. A. Jones.

Reviews the book "The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History. Papers Read at the 1999 Summer Meeting and the 2000 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical Society," edited by R. N. Swanson.

Reviews the book "Eastern Approaches to Byzantium. Papers From the Third-Party Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999," edited by Antony Eastmond.

Reviews the book "Shaping Community. The Art and Archeology of Monasticism. Papers From a Symposium Held at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, March 10-12, 2000," edited by Sheila McNally.

The final chapter of this section is devoted to the relationship between Inquisition and painting, and to the identity of some Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jews and Muslims made visible in Christian Iberia and beyond, 14th to 18th centuries. The papers written by Amadeo Serra and Maria Portmann focus on the link between the mass conversions of the end of the fourteenth century and the pictorial representations of Jews. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book `Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483,' edited by Christine Carpenter.

978 0 8132 3283 6 The introduction to this multi-author volume sets Aquinas's I Expositio i on Job in the extensive existing tradition of commentary on Job to which his contemporaries were also adding. This is a workmanlike and insightful collection of essays, in which breathes something of the spirit of the schoolroom for which Aquinas wrote his practical aid for the I fratres communes i in their study of the book of Job, and in which he can be seen developing his own thinking. The three papers collected in the first section of the book, entitled "Job and I sacra doctrina i ", are accordingly concerned with what Aquinas understood about teaching. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the books `The Reverend William Proudfoot and the United Secession Mission in Canada,' by Stewart Gill, `Secularizing the Faith. Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940,' by David B. Marshall and `The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada. Papers Presented at a Conference Held at Mount Allison University, October 6-8,1989,' edited by Charles H.H. Scobie and John Webster Grant.

The article reviews the books "The lantern tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010. Reconstructing its history and architecture," by Warwick Rodwell, part of the "Westminster Abbey Occasional Papers" series, and "Westminster Abbey chapter house. The history, art and architecture of a chapter house beyond compare," edited by Warwick Rodwell and Richard Mortimer.

Reviews the book `Anglicans in the Antipodes: An Indexed Calendar of the Papers and Correspondence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 1788-1961, Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific,' compiled and edited by Ruth Frappell, Robert Withycombe, Leighton Frappell and Raymond Nobbs.

Reviews the book `Continuity and Change in Christian Worship. Papers Read at the 1997 Summer Meeting and the 1998 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society,' edited by R.N. Swanson.

Reviews the book `The Education of a Christian Society. Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands. Papers Delivered to the Thirteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 1997,' edited by N. Scott Amos, Andrew Pettegree and Henk Van Nierop.

Reviews the book `Work and Worship at the Theotokos Evergetis, 1050-1200. Papers of the Fourth Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, Portaferry, Co. Down, 14-17 September 1995,' edited by Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby.

Reviews the book `The Gallery Tradition. Aspects of Georgian Psalmody. Papers From the International Conference Organised by the Colchester Institute, August 1995,' edited by Christopher Turner.

Reviews the book `The Church Retrospective. Papers at the 1995 Summer Meeting and the 1996 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society,' edited by R.N. Swanson.