JRH–A memoir at twenty years

The Journal of Religious History began in a conversation between Edwin Judge and Bruce Mansfield in the winter of 1958. At the University of Sydney in those days there was a number of youngish men with interests in religious history - Judge, whose Social Pattern of Christian Groups in the First Century was soon to appear, Ken Cable, already an authority on the history of Anglicanism in Australia, and Mansfield, who had been encouraged some years before to take up early modern and Reformation history and restore it to the Sydney curriculum.