American_Society_of_Church_History
American Society of Church History
Learned society
The American Society of Church History (ASCH) was founded in 1888[1] with the disciplines of Christian denominational and ecclesiastical history as its focus. Today the society's interests include the broad range of the critical scholarly perspectives, as applied to the history of Christianity and its relationship to surrounding cultures in all periods, locations, and contexts. The society was founded by Philip Schaff.
Abbreviation | ASCH |
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Formation | 1888; 136 years ago (1888) |
Founder | Philip Schaff |
Founded at | New York City, New York, US[1] |
Type | Learned society |
Region | United States |
Field | Ecclesiastical history |
Membership (2020) | 1,600[2] |
President | Daniel Ramírez |
Executive secretary | Caleb Maskell[2][3] |
Affiliations | |
Revenue (2018–19) | $260,753[5] |
Expenses (2018–19) | $188,354[6] |
Endowment (2019) | $483,408[7] |
Website | churchhistory |
The ASCH records are housed at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On behalf of the ASCH, Cambridge University Press publishes the quarterly academic journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, which was established in 1932.[8][9] The journal is regarded as highly authoritative in its field, and is compared to the British Journal of Ecclesiastical History.[10]
- 1888: Philip Schaff[1][11]
- 1932: William Warren Sweet[12]
- 1933: Conrad Henry Moehlman[13]
- 1934: Frederick William Loetscher[14]
- 1935: John T. McNeill
- 1936: Wilhelm Pauck[15]
- 1937: Herbert Schneider[16]
- 1938: Reuben E. E. Harkness[17]
- 1939: Charles Lyttle[18]
- 1940: Roland Bainton[19]
- 1941: F. W. Buckler[20]
- 1942: E. R. Hardy Jr.[21]
- 1943: Harold S. Bender[22]
- 1944: Percy V. Norwood[23]
- 1945: Kenneth Scott Latourette[24]
- 1946: Matthew Spinka[25]
- 1947: Ernest G. Schwiebert[26]
- 1949: Massey H. Shepherd[27]
- 1950: James Hastings Nichols[28]
- 1951: Ray C. Petry[29]
- 1953: Sidney Mead[30]
- 1954: Carl E. Schneider[31]
- 1955: L. J. Trinterud[32]
- 1956: Quirinus Breen[33]
- 1957: H. Shelton Smith[34]
- 1958: George Huntston Williams[35]
- 1959: Robert T. Handy[36][37]
- 1960: Jerald C. Brauer[38][39]
- 1961: Harold J. Grimm[40]
- 1962: Lefferts A. Loetscher[41][42]
- 1963: Raymond W. Albright[43]
- 1964: Albert C. Outler[44]
- 1965: Jaroslav Pelikan[45]
- 1967: Richard Cameron[46]
- 1969: John Tracy Ellis[47]
- 1970: Robert M. Grant[48]
- 1971: Martin E. Marty[49]
- 1972: Carl Bangs[50]
- 1973: William A. Clebsch[51][52]
- 1974: Clyde L. Manschreck[53]
- 1975: Sydney E. Ahlstrom[54]
- 1976: John F. Wilson[55][56]
- 1977: Lewis W. Spitz[57][58]
- 1978: Edwin S. Gaustad[59][60]
- 1979: Brian A. Gerrish[61]
- 1980: Robert M. Kingdon[62]
- 1981: William R. Hutchison[63]
- 1982: C. C. Goen[64][65]
- 1983: Jane Dempsey Douglass[66][67]
- 1984: Henry W. Bowden[68]
- 1985: David C. Steinmetz[69]
- 1986: Winton U. Solberg[70]
- 1987: Jay P. Dolan[71]
- 1988: William J. Courtenay[72]
- 1989: Elizabeth A. Clark[66][73]
- 1990: Timothy L. Smith[74]
- 1991: Richard L. Greaves[75]
- 1992: George Marsden[76]
- 1993–1994: Nathan O. Hatch[77][78]
- 1994–1995: Stephen J. Stein[79][80]
- 1995–1996: Bernard McGinn[81][82][83]
- 1996–1997: Barbara Brown Zikmund[66][84][85]
- 1997–1998: Richard Kieckhefer[86][87]
- 1998–1999: Peter W. Williams[88][89]
- 1999–2000: Ronald L. Numbers[90][91]
- 2000–2001: Hans J. Hillerbrand[92][93]
- 2001–2002: Amanda Porterfield[66][94][95]
- 2002–2003: E. Brooks Holifield[96][97][98]
- 2003–2004: Dale A. Johnson[99][100]
- 2004–2005: Dennis Dickerson[66][101][102]
- 2005–2006: Mark Noll[103][104]
- 2006–2007: Jan Shipps[66][105][106]
- 2007–2008: John Van Engen[11][107]
- 2008–2009: Grant Wacker[108][109]
- 2009–2010: Charles H. Lippy[110][111][112]
- 2010–2011: Richard P. Heitzenrater[113][114]
- 2011–2012: Barbara Newman[66][115][116]
- 2012–2013: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp[66][117][118]
- 2013–2014: Bruce Hindmarsh[119][120]
- 2014–2015: Thomas F. X. Noble[121][122]
- 2015–2016: Margaret Bendroth[66][123][124]
- 2016–2017: Ronald Rittgers[125][126]
- 2017–2018: Candy Gunther Brown[66][127][128]
- 2018–2019: Ralph Keen[129][130]
- 2019: Paul C. H. Lim[131]
- 2020–present: Daniel Ramírez[2][3][132]
- Zikmund, Barbara Brown (1997). "Faith and History: Reflections on the Work of the ASCH". Church History. 66 (2): 287. doi:10.2307/3170659. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3170659.
- "American Society of Church History". Washington: American Historical Association. 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- "ASCH Executive Committee and Council". American Society of Church History. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- "American Society of Church History". New York: American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- Bademan, Bryan (2020). "Finance Secretary's Report to the Membership". American Society of Church History. p. 3. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- Bademan, Bryan (2020). "Finance Secretary's Report to the Membership". American Society of Church History. p. 4. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
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- Hein, David; Shattuck, Gardiner H. (2004). The Episcopalians. Denominations in America. Vol. 11. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishing. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-313-22958-9. ISSN 0193-6883.
- "Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture". Homepage. American Society of Church History. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- Bradley, James E. (1995). Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. Wm. B. Eerdmans. p. 90. ISBN 9780802808264.
- Van Engen, John (2008). "Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth-Century Church". Church History. 77 (2): 257. doi:10.1017/S0009640708000541. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 20618487.
- Nichols, James Hastings (1951). "The Art of Church History". Church History. 20 (1): 3–9. doi:10.2307/3162044. JSTOR 3162044.
- Petry, Ray C. (1952). "Social Responsibility and the Late Medieval Mystics". Church History. 21 (1): 3–19. doi:10.2307/3162067. JSTOR 3162067.
- Mead, Sidney E. (1954). "Abraham Lincoln's "Last, Best Hope of Earth": The American Dream of Destiny and Democracy". Church History. 23 (1): 3–16. doi:10.2307/3161179. JSTOR 3161179.
- Schneider, Carl E. (1955). "Americanization of Karl August Rauschenbusch, 1816-1899". Church History. 24 (1): 3–14. doi:10.2307/3161506. JSTOR 3161506.
- Trinterud, L. J. (1956). "The Task of the American Church Historian". Church History. 25 (1): 3–15. doi:10.2307/3161763. JSTOR 3161763.
- Breen, Quirinus (1957). "John Calvin and the Rhetorical Tradition". Church History. 26 (1): 3–21. doi:10.2307/3161799. JSTOR 3161799.
- Williams, George Huntston (1959). "The Wilderness and Paradise in the History of the Church". Church History. 28 (1): 3–24. doi:10.2307/3161684. JSTOR 3161684.
- Handy, Robert T. (1960). "The American Religious Depression, 1925-1935". Church History. 29 (1): 3–16. doi:10.2307/3161613. JSTOR 3161613.
- Brauer, Jerald C. (1961). "Images of Religion in America". Church History. 30 (1): 3–18. doi:10.2307/3161261. JSTOR 3161261.
- Grimm, Harold J. (1962). "Social Forces in the German Reformation". Church History. 31 (1): 3–13. doi:10.2307/3163356. JSTOR 3163356.
- Loetscher, Lefferts A. (1963). "The Problem of Christian Unity in Early Nineteenth-Century America". Church History. 32 (1): 3–16. doi:10.2307/3162537. JSTOR 3162537.
- Pelikan, Jaroslav (1966). "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine". Church History. 35 (1): 3–12. doi:10.2307/3162668. JSTOR 3162668.
- Cameron, Richard (1969). "The Attack on the Biblical Work of Lefevre d'Etaples 1514-1521". Church History. 38 (1): 9–24. doi:10.2307/3163646. JSTOR 3163646.
- Clebsch, William A. (1974). "Toward a History of Christianity". Church History. 43 (1): 5–16. doi:10.2307/3164076. JSTOR 3164076.
- Wilson, John F. (1977). "Jonathan Edwards as Historian". Church History. 46 (1): 5–18. doi:10.2307/3165155. JSTOR 3165155.
- Spitz, Lewis W. (1978). "History: Sacred and Secular". Church History. 47 (1): 5–22. doi:10.2307/3164611. JSTOR 3164611.
- Gaustad, Edwin S. (1979). "George Berkeley and New World Community". Church History. 48 (1): 5–17. doi:10.2307/3163920. JSTOR 3163920.
- Goen, C. C. (1983). "Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Regional Religion and North-South Alienation in Antebellum America". Church History. 52 (1): 21–35. doi:10.2307/3167066. JSTOR 3167066.
- Lim, Paul C. H. (2019). "2019 ASCH President's Report". American Society of Church History. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- Hatch, Nathan O. (1994). "The Puzzle of American Methodism". Church History. 63 (2): 175–189. doi:10.2307/3168586. JSTOR 3168586.
- Stein, Stephen J. (1995). "America's Bibles: Canon, Commentary, and Community". Church History. 64 (2): 169–184. doi:10.2307/3167903. JSTOR 3167903.
- McGinn, Bernard (1996). "The Changing Shape of Late Medieval Mysticism". Church History. 65 (2): 197–219. doi:10.2307/3170288. JSTOR 3170288.
- Zikmund, Barbara Brown (1997). "Faith and History: Reflections on the Work of the ASCH". Church History. 66 (2): 284–302. doi:10.2307/3170659. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3170659.
- Kieckhefer, Richard (1998). "Convention and Conversion: Patterns in Late Medieval Piety". Church History. 67 (1): 32–51. doi:10.2307/3170770. JSTOR 3170770..
- Williams, Peter W. (1999). "The Iconography of the American City: Or, a Gothic Tale of Modern Times". Church History. 68 (2): 373–397. doi:10.2307/3170862. JSTOR 3170862.
- Numbers, Ronald L. (2000). ""The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time": William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher's Chronology". Church History. 69 (2): 257–276. doi:10.2307/3169579. JSTOR 3169579.
- Porterfield, Amanda (2002). "Healing in the History of Christianity Presidential Address, January 2002 American Society of Church History". Church History. 71 (2): 227–242. doi:10.1017/S0009640700095676. JSTOR 4146466.
- Holifield, E. Brooks (2003). "On Teaching the History of Christianity: Traditions and Presuppositions". Church History. 72 (2): 237–250. doi:10.1017/S0009640700099832. JSTOR 4146641.
- Johnson, Dale A. (2004). "Gender and the Construction of Models of Christian Activity: A Case Study". Church History. 73 (2): 247–271. doi:10.1017/S0009640700109278. JSTOR 4146525.
- Dickerson, Dennis C. (2005). "African American Religious Intellectuals and the Theological Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, 1930-55". Church History. 74 (2): 217–235. doi:10.1017/S0009640700110212. JSTOR 27644548.
- Noll, Mark A. (2006). "What Happened to Christian Canada?". Church History. 75 (2): 245–273. doi:10.1017/S000964070011131X. JSTOR 27644765.
- Shipps, Jan (2007). "From Peoplehood to Church Membership: Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II". Church History. 76 (2): 241–261. doi:10.1017/S000964070010191X. JSTOR 27644975.
- Wacker, Grant (2009). "Billy Graham's America". Church History. 78 (3): 489–511. doi:10.1017/S0009640709990400. JSTOR 20618750.
- Lippy, Charles H. (2010). "Chastized by Scorpions: Christianity and Culture in Colonial South Carolina, 1669–1740". Church History. 79 (2): 253–270. doi:10.1017/S000964071000003X. JSTOR 27806394.
- Heitzenrater, Richard P. (2011). "Inventing Church History". Church History. 80 (4): 737–748. doi:10.1017/S0009640711001193. JSTOR 41410750.
- Newman, Barbara (2012). ""The Passion of the Jews of Prague": The Pogrom of 1389 and the Lessons of a Medieval Parody". Church History. 81 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1017/S0009640711001752. JSTOR 41410804.
- Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. (2013). "The Burdens of Church History". Church History. 82 (2): 353–367. doi:10.1017/S0009640713000115. JSTOR 24532955.
- Hindmarsh, Bruce (2014). "The Inner Life of Doctrine: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Calvinist-Arminian Debate Among Methodists". Church History. 83 (2): 367–397. doi:10.1017/S0009640714000067. JSTOR 24534325.
- Noble, Thomas F. X. (2015). "Carolingian Religion". Church History. 84 (2): 287–307. doi:10.1017/S0009640715000104.
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- Bendroth, Margaret (2016). "Time, History, and Tradition in the Fundamentalist Imagination". Church History. 85 (2): 328–342. doi:10.1017/S0009640716000020.
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- Brown, Candy Gunther (2018). "Christian Yoga: Something New Under the Sun/Son?". Church History. 87 (3): 659–683. doi:10.1017/S0009640718001555.
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- Keen, Ralph (2019). "Intra-Confessional Polemics in the Reformation". Church History. 88 (3): 629–644. doi:10.1017/S0009640719001926.
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- "CHH volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter". Church History. 89: f1–f8. 2020. doi:10.1017/S0009640720000633.
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