The Rise of Historical Consciousness Among the Christian Churches

This well written and scholarly book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the intra-denominational antagonisms of the past five centuries and of the major role which the development of historical consciousness within those denominations has played. That after so many centuries some major Christian denominations still lack historical perspective on their sacred documents and institutional structures astounds. -- Lawrence Barmann, professor emeritus, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri [This book] contains a rich medley of essays, tracing the evolution of this modern term from its rise in Erasmus in the sixteenth through the early twentieth century. . . . [The] collection attends to the range of historical consciousness in Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist traditions, noting those controversies that shaped the peculiar dimensions of the twentieth and twenty-first eras. -- Peter Erb, professor emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This collection of eight essays, along with an excellent introduction by Kenneth Parker, stemmed from papers presented at the American Academy of Religions Working Group on the Rise of Historical Consciousness....These essays offer a new and compelling narrative in understanding where historical consciousness stands as a challenge to Christian belief and practice, casting the battle as a family feud more than an attack from hostile outsiders. Parkers very fine introduction to the collection; his essay on the First Vatican Council; and the essays by Theodore Letis, Darrell Jodock, and Harvey Hill stand out as important contributions in this collection. The essays offer exciting new insights on a topic that scholars could think had been exhaustively studied. * The Catholic Historical Review *

Kenneth L. Parker is associate professor of theological studies at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. His research interests include John Henry Newman, the nature of historical theology, and the papal infallibility debates of the nineteenth century. Parker has published Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William Shea (UPA, 2009), also part of the Studies in Religion and the Social Order series. Erick H. Moser is a Ph.D. candidate in historical theology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. Moser is presently pursuing dissertation research on the life and contributions of Jean Danilou, specifically focusing on his engagement with French intellectual and cultural currents during the first half of the twentieth century.

Acknowledgements 1. The Rise of Historical Consciousness Among the Christian Churches: An Introduction Kenneth L. Parker 2. Erasmus and the Birth of Historical Consciousness Theodore P. Letis 3. Rehabilitating Richard Simon, Legitimating Alfred Loisy C.J.T. Talar 4. D.F. Strauss Life of Jesus, F.C. Baur, and Modern Historical Consciousness Darrell Jodock 5. Historical Consciousness and the First Vatican Council: Manning, Dllinger, Newman, and Actons Uses of History in the Papal Infallibility Debates Kenneth L. Parker 6. Historical Consciousness and the Controversy over Essays and Review Harvey Hill 7. The Dutch Radicals Espoused Historical Research as the Basic Principle of Their Study Eduard Verhoef 8. History and Heresy: Religious Authority and the Trial of Charles Augustus Briggs Harvey Hill 9. Historical Consciousness among Baptists in the South: Owning and Disowning a Tradition Bill J. Leonard Select Bibliography Index