This prize is given by the American Society of Church History (from their website) :
" This prize annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year."
The book is "American Zion" by Benjamin Park, who is an Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University. I've not read it, but it has good reviews. I believe Parks is LDS. His wikipedia says he attended BYU for undergrad and also went on a mission.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631498657
Mormon history scholars have come a long way to be recognized like this in the Christian history community. Dr. Park himself pointed out that Philip Schaff would probably be quite shocked that a book about Mormon history would someday win a prize named after him, given his own history and beliefs. This is the first book about Mormon history to win this prize.
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Some prior winners of the Philip Schaff Prize:
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O'Malley
2015
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages by John Van Engen
2010
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout
2008
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden
2004
Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism by Philip Benedict
2003
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
1999
Calvinists and Libertines by Benjamin J. Kaplan
1997
The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
1995
The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers by Stephen J. Stein
1993
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England by David D. Hall
1991
Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum
1989
Saint Jerome in the Renaissance by Eugene F. Rice
1986
Society and Religion in Mnster, 1535-1618 by R. Po-chia Hsia
1985
Constantine and Eusebius by Timothy D. Barnes
1982
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment
1980
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (Princeton Legacy Library, 1568) by Thomas N Tentler
1979
" This prize annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year."
The book is "American Zion" by Benjamin Park, who is an Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University. I've not read it, but it has good reviews. I believe Parks is LDS. His wikipedia says he attended BYU for undergrad and also went on a mission.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631498657
Mormon history scholars have come a long way to be recognized like this in the Christian history community. Dr. Park himself pointed out that Philip Schaff would probably be quite shocked that a book about Mormon history would someday win a prize named after him, given his own history and beliefs. This is the first book about Mormon history to win this prize.
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Some prior winners of the Philip Schaff Prize:
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O'Malley
2015
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages by John Van Engen
2010
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout
2008
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden
2004
Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism by Philip Benedict
2003
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
1999
Calvinists and Libertines by Benjamin J. Kaplan
1997
The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
1995
The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers by Stephen J. Stein
1993
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England by David D. Hall
1991
Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum
1989
Saint Jerome in the Renaissance by Eugene F. Rice
1986
Society and Religion in Mnster, 1535-1618 by R. Po-chia Hsia
1985
Constantine and Eusebius by Timothy D. Barnes
1982
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment
1980
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (Princeton Legacy Library, 1568) by Thomas N Tentler
1979