The American Society of Church History (ASCH) was founded in 1888 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.
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. The journal is regarded as highly authoritative in its field, and is compared to the British Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Presidents
1888: Philip Schaff 1932: William Warren Sweet 1933: Conrad Henry Moehlman 1934: Frederick William Loetscher 1935: John T. McNeill 1936: Wilhelm Pauck 1937: Herbert Schneider 1938: Reuben E. E. Harkness 1939: Charles Lyttle 1940: Roland Bainton 1941: F. W. Buckler 1942: E. R. Hardy Jr. 1943: Harold S. Bender 1944: Percy V. Norwood 1945: Kenneth Scott Latourette 1946: Matthew Spinka 1947: Ernest G. Schwiebert 1949: Massey H. Shepherd 1950: James Hastings Nichols 1951: Ray C. Petry 1953: Sidney Mead 1954: Carl E. Schneider 1955: L. J. Trinterud 1956: Quirinus Breen 1957: H. Shelton Smith 1958: George Huntston Williams 1959: Robert T. Handy 1960: Jerald C. Brauer 1961: Harold J. Grimm 1962: Lefferts A. Loetscher 1963: Raymond W. Albright 1964: Albert C. Outler 1965: Jaroslav Pelikan 1966: John Van Rohr 1967: Richard Cameron 1968: Elwyn Smith 1969: John Tracy Ellis 1970: Robert M. Grant 1971: Martin E. Marty 1972: Carl Bangs 1973: William A. Clebsch 1974: Clyde L. Manschreck 1975: Sydney E. Ahlstrom 1976: John F. Wilson 1977: Lewis W. Spitz 1978: Edwin S. Gaustad 1979: Brian A. Gerrish 1980: Robert M. Kingdon 1981: William R. Hutchison 1982: C. C. Goen 1983: Jane Dempsey Douglass 1984: Henry W. Bowden 1985: David C. Steinmetz 1986: Winton U. Solberg 1987: Jay P. Dolan 1988: William J. Courtenay 1989: Elizabeth A. Clark 1990: Timothy L. Smith 1991: Richard L. Greaves 1992: George Marsden 1993–1994: Nathan O. Hatch 1994–1995: Stephen J. Stein 1995–1996: Bernard McGinn 1996–1997: Barbara Brown Zikmund 1997–1998: Richard Kieckhefer. 1998–1999: Peter W. Williams 1999–2000: Ronald L. Numbers 2000–2001: Hans J. Hillerbrand 2001–2002: Amanda Porterfield 2002–2003: E. Brooks Holifield 2003–2004: Dale A. Johnson 2004–2005: Dennis Dickerson 2005–2006: Mark Noll 2006–2007: Jan Shipps 2007–2008: John Van Engen 2008–2009: Grant Wacker 2009–2010: Charles H. Lippy 2010–2011: Richard P. Heitzenrater 2011–2012: Barbara Newman 2012–2013: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp 2013–2014: Bruce Hindmarsh 2014–2015: Thomas F.X. Noble 2015–2016: Margaret Bendroth 2016–2017: Ronald Rittgers 2017–2018: Candy Gunther Brown 2018–2019: Ralph Keen 2019: Paul C.H. Lim 2020: Daniel Ramírez 2021–2022: Anthea Butler 2023: Jonathan Ebel 2024: Esther Chung-Kim 2025: Timothy Larsen 2026: Elesha Coffman
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