00220469_69-2_00220469_69-2 26/03/18 3:36 PM Page 1 The Journal ofThe Journal Ecclesiastical History 69 The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Vol. No. 2 April 2018 Volume 69 Number 2 April 2018 CONTENTS i ARTICLES Who was Arnobius the Younger? Dissimulation, Deception and Disguise by a Fifth-Century Opponent of Augustine N. W. JAMES 243 The The Close Proximity of Christ to Sixth-Century Mesopotamian Monks in John of Ephesus’ Lives of Eastern Saints MATTHEW HOSKIN 262 Of Meat, Men and Property: The Troubled Career of a Convert Nun in Eighteenth-Century Kiev Journal LIUDMYLA SHARIPOVA 278 Anglicanism and Interventionism: Bishop Brent, The United States, and the British Empire in the First World War MICHAEL SNAPE 300 Vol. of Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement, Katanga, Belgian Congo, c.1915–50 69 DAVID MAXWELL 326 No. 2 April 2018 NOTE AND DOCUMENT Richard Baxter, Thomas Barlow and the Advice to a Young Student in Theology, Ecclesiastical St John’s College, Cambridge, MS K.38: A Preliminary Assessment ROBERT DULGARIAN 345 REVIEW ARTICLE American Evangelical Politics before the Christian Right DANIEL K. 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JAMES THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF CHRIST TO SIXTH-CENTURY MESOPOTAMIAN MONKS IN JOHN OF EPHESUS’ LIVES OF EASTERN SAINTS: BY MATTHEW HOSKIN OF MEAT,MEN AND PROPERTY:THE TROUBLED CAREER OF A CONVERT NUN IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY KIEV: BY LIUDMYLA SHARIPOVA ANGLICANISM AND INTERVENTIONISM:BISHOP BRENT,THE UNITED STATES, AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR: BY MICHAEL SNAPE CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE LUBA CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT,KATANGA,BELGIAN CONGO, C.–: BY DAVID MAXWELL NOTE AND DOCUMENT RICHARD BAXTER,THOMAS BARLOW AND THE ADVICE TO A YOUNG STUDENT IN THEOLOGY, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE,CAMBRIDGE, MS K.:APRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT: BY ROBERT DULGARIAN REVIEW ARTICLE AMERICAN EVANGELICAL POLITICS BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: BY DANIEL K.WILLIAMS THE EUSEBIUS ESSAY PRIZE and THE WORLD CHRISTIANITIES ESSAY PRIZE REVIEWS LAQUEUR, The work of the dead. A cultural history of mortal remains: by Scott G. Bruce NGONG, A new history of African Christian thought. From Cape to Cairo: by Jesse Zink HUTTON (ed.), Physical evidence for ritual acts, sorcery and witchcraft in Christian Britain. A feeling for magic: by Anna French BRANDS, Antiochia in der Spätantike. Prolegomena zu einer archäologischen Stadtegeschichte: by Wendy Mayer JOHANNESSEN, The demonic in the political thought of Eusebius of Caesarea: by Carolyn Hammond BERZON, Classifying Christians. Ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in late antiquity: by William Adler BOODTS (ed.), Sancti Avrelii Avgvstini. Sermones in epistolas apostolicas II. Id est sermones CLVII – CLXXXIII. Secvndvm ordinem Vvlgatvm. Insertis etiam aliqvot sermonibvs, post Mavrinos repertis: by H. A. G. Houghton Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 02 Oct 2021 at 01:37:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. ii CONTENTS SISSON and LARSON (eds), A companion