HILL, Harvey 1965-

PERSONAL:

Born September 7, 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia; son of Harvey (an attorney) and Sarah (an independent scholar; maiden name, Hitch) Hill; married Carrie Baker (a professor), August 1, 1992; children: Benjamin, Nicholas. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Yale University, B.A.; Candler School of Theology, Master of Theological Studies; Emory University, Ph.D., 1996. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Episcopalian.

ADDRESSES:

Home—P.O. Box 490053, Mount Berry, GA 30149. Office—P.O. Box 550, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator. Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, assistant professor, 1996-2002, associate professor of religion, 2002—, chair of department, 2002—.

MEMBER:

American Academy of Religion.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Faculty Member of the Year, Berry College, 2002.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Lawrence Barmann, and contributor) Personal Faith and Institutional Commitment: Roman Catholic Modernist and Anti-Modernist Autobiography, University of Scranton Press (Scranton, PA), 2002.

The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion, Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC), 2002.

Contributor to Catholicism Contending with Modernity: Roman Catholic Modernism and Anti-Modernism, edited by Darrell Jodock, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 2000. Also contributor to journals of theology, including Theological Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Anglican Theological Review, Catholic Historical Review, and Review of Religious Research.

SIDELIGHTS:

Harvey Hill is a professor and writer of theological history, with a focus on Christian modernism. He has also written extensively on the theology of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Anglican and Episcopal clerics. Hill's research focuses on the struggle against modernism in the Roman Catholic Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion has "succeeded in breaking new ground" observed C. J. T. Talar in Theological Studies. By using unpublished sources, including Loisy's autobiography, Hill traces the development of the French modernist theologian's thought in the context of both scholarly criticism of the Bible and the political crisis of church-state relations in France. David G. Schultenover, writing in the Catholic Historical Review, stated that "one is unlikely to find in any language a clearer, better written introduction" to Loisy's career. Schultenover also noted Hill's "authoritative, virtually first-person reading of the complex contours of Loisy's life."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Catholic Historical Review, January, 2003, David G. Schultenover, review of The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion, p. 114.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History, October, 2003, Mark D. Chapman, review of The Politics of Modernism, p. 786.

Review of Politics, spring, 2003, Paul Misner, review of The Politics of Modernism, p. 294.

Theological Studies, June, 2003, C. J. T. Talar, review of The Politics of Modernism, p. 443; December 2003, David W. Dockrill, review of Personal Faith and Institutional Commitments: Roman Catholic Modernist and Anti-Modernist Autobiography, p. 880.