Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Letter from the Editors (Summer 2023) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, I must begin this Letter from the Editors with an apology for the long delay between issues…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Article: The Rome Lectures: Father Marie-Benoît and the Path to Jewish-Christian Rapprochement Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University This essay was originally published in Holocaust Education Today: Confronting…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Kevin Madigan, The Popes Against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021). 368 Pp. ISBN: 9780300215861. By Rebecca Carter-Chand,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Andrew Chandler, British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. x + 422. ISBN: 9781107129047. By Kyle…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Hans-Otto Mühleisen and Dominik Burkard, Erzbischof Conrad Groeber reloaded: Warum es sich lohnt, genauer hinzusehen (Lindenberg: Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2020). ISBN 978-3-95976-305-9. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Josef Meyer zu Schlochten and Johannes W. Vutz, eds., Lorenz Jaeger: Ein Erzbischof in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Münster: Aschendorff, 2020). ISBN 978-3-402-24674-0. By Martin Menke, Rivier University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Tilman Tarach, Teuflische Allmacht. Über die verleugneten christlichen Wurzeln des modernen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus (Freiburg–Berlin: Edition Telok 2022). 224 pages. ISBN 9783981348644. By Dirk Schuster, University for Continuing…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Article Note: Harry Legg, “Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: The Everyday Life of a Forgotten Group Within Nazi Germany,” Journal of Holocaust Research 36 no. 4 (2022): 299-326. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Conference Report: Otto Dibelius. New Research on a Protestant Figure of the Century By Michael Heymel, Independent Scholar and Central Archives of the Protestant Church in Hessen and Nassau (retired)…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Research Report: KU Leuven Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies Research Group on the History of Contemporary Religious Identities and Ideas By Dries Bosschaert, KU Leuven In the transition to…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Letter from the Editors (Spring/Summer 2022) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, After a long hiatus, once more the editors are pleased to present a new issue of Contemporary Church…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) The Old Picture Is No Longer Valid: Why the Time Is Ripe for a Reassessment of the Ecclesiastical Figure of the Century, Otto Dibelius By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Manfred Gailus, Gläubige Zeiten. Religiosität im Dritten Reich (Freiburg: Herder 2021). 223 pages. ISBN 9783451033391. By Sarah Thieme, University of Münster With his monograph “Gläubige Zeiten”, Manfred Gailus,…
Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan (Stuttgart: Langenmüller, 2020). 448 pages. ISBN 978-3-7844-3449-0. By Martin Menke, Rivier University Michael…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Jeremy Best, Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture in the Age of Empire (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Pp. 322. ISBN: 9781487505639. By Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University Questions…