Letter from the Editors (September 2016)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Letter from the Editors (September 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As fall begins and students return to universities across Europe and North America, we are delighted to…
Review of Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Pp. 352, ISBN: 9780674598485. By Robert Ventresca, King’s University College at Western University Lauren Faulkner…
Review of Christoph Picker, Gabriele Stueber, Klaus Buemlein, and Frank-Matthias Hofmann, eds., Protestanten ohne Protest: Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Christoph Picker, Gabriele Stueber, Klaus Buemlein, and Frank-Matthias Hofmann, eds., Protestanten ohne Protest: Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus, 2 Vols. (Speyer and Leipzig: Verlagshaus Speyer and Evangelische…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 760-790. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St….
Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933,” Past and Present 229 (Nov. 2015): 201-238. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University Though…
Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War,” German History 33, no. 1 (March 2015): 80-99. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Thomas Brodie of Jesus College,…
Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (London: Penguin Books, 2015), Pp. 593, ISBN: 9780713990898. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Despite its theologically-sounding title, this…
Conference Report: “Not Without the Old Testament”: The Importance of the Hebrew Bible for Christianity and Judaism, French Church of Friedrichstadt, Berlin, 8-10 December 2015
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: “Not Without the Old Testament”: The Importance of the Hebrew Bible for Christianity and Judaism, French Church of Friedrichstadt, Berlin, 8-10 December 2015 By Gerhard Naber, Nordhorn, and…
Conference Report: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-23 July 2016
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-23 July 2016 By Geoff Jackson, Ambrose University In late July, I had the opportunity to participate in the…
Film Note: Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Film Note: Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College In post-WWI Germany, law had been a most respected entity, with the country thriving thanks…