This Week's Acquisitions
- Mark Salber Phillips, On Historical Distance (Yale, 2015). Series of historiographical essays exploring the shifting meanings of "distance" across a variety of historical genres. (Amazon)
- Crawford Gribben, Evangelical Millennialism in the Transatlantic World, 1500-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). History of millennial expectations from the early modern period to the present. (Amazon)
- David G. Schultenover, S. J., A View from Rome: On the Eve of the Modernist Crisis (Fordham, 1999). Reconstructs the debates surrounding Catholic "modernism"--the attempt to bring in new "scientific" approaches to Biblical criticism, among other liberalizing projects, at the end of the nineteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand]).