Letter from the Editors (Winter 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Letter from the Editors (Winter 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, Very warm Christmas greetings to our readers! Once again I bring our issue to post…
Review Article: Tim Lorentzen, Bonhoeffers Widerstand im Gedächtnis der Nachwelt
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review Article: Tim Lorentzen, Bonhoeffers Widerstand im Gedächtnis der Nachwelt. (Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023). Illustrations. ISBN 978-3-506-70473-3. By Victoria J. Barnett, General Editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English edition, and former director,…
Film Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Film Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin, directed by Todd Komarnicki (Angel Studios, 2024) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, Continuing & Professional Studies Introduction On the morning of April…
Review of David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War. The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War. The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (New York: Random House, 2022). ISBN: 978-0812989946. By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Review of Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin, eds., The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin, eds., The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality (Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London: Lexington Books, 2022). ISBN: 978-1-7936-4216-5 By Gerald J. Steinacher, University…
Review of Keith W. Clements, J.H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of Keith W. Clements, J.H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers (Fortress Press, 2022), pp. xv + 235. ISBN: 9781506470009. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester The distinguished British…
Review of William Skiles, Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of William Skiles, Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church (Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023). 293 Pp. ISBN: 9781978700635. By Jonathan Huener, University of Vermont Historians…
Conference Report: Seminar, Religion and Secularism in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Conference Report: Seminar, Religion and Secularism in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, German Studies Association, September 2024 By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University This seminar, which…
Article Note: Harry Legg, “‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Article Note: Harry Legg, “‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria,” Contemporary European History (2024), 18 pages, doi:10.1017/S0960777324000262. By Kyle Jantzen,…
Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As we near the end of September, I am again tardy in posting our latest…
Review of Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019). ISBN 978-0-674-98342-7. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this useful volume,…
Review of Oliver Arnhold, “Entjudung” von Theologie und Kirche: Das Eisenacher “Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben” 1939–1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Oliver Arnhold, “Entjudung” von Theologie und Kirche: Das Eisenacher “Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben” 1939–1945 (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020). ISBN:…
Review of Stiftung Kloster Dalheim, LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, eds., Und vergib uns unsere Schuld? Kirchen und Klöster im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Stiftung Kloster Dalheim, LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, eds., Und vergib uns unsere Schuld? Kirchen und Klöster im Nationalsozialismus (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2024). By Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College…
Review of Johannes Sachslehner, Hitlers Mann im Vatikan: Bischof Alois Hudal: ein dunkles Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kirche
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Johannes Sachslehner, Hitlers Mann im Vatikan: Bischof Alois Hudal: ein dunkles Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kirche (Graz: Molden Verlag, 2019). ISBN 978-3-222-15040-1. By Martin Menke, Rivier University…