Review of Hans von Dohnanyi, “Mir hat Gott keinen Panzer ums Herz gegeben”: Briefe aus Militärgefängnis und Gestapohaft 1943-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of Hans von Dohnanyi, “Mir hat Gott keinen Panzer ums Herz gegeben”: Briefe aus Militärgefängnis und Gestapohaft 1943-1945 (Munich: Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, 2015), 351 pages, ISBN 9783421047113. By John…
Review of Gerhard Besier, ed., “Intimately Associated for Many Years”: George K. A. Bell’s and Willem A. Visser’t Hooft’s Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored in Their Correspondence
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Gerhard Besier, ed., “Intimately Associated for Many Years”: George K. A. Bell’s and Willem A. Visser’t Hooft’s Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored…
Review of Gerald Hacke, Die Zeugen Jehovahs im Dritten Reich und in der DDR: Feindbild und Verfolgungspraxis
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Gerald Hacke, Die Zeugen Jehovahs im Dritten Reich und in der DDR: Feindbild und Verfolgungspraxis. Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts fur Totalitarismusforschung, 41 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 457 Pp.,…
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…
Review of Mary M. Solberg, ed. and trans., A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Mary M. Solberg, ed. and trans., A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015). Pp. 486. ISBN 9781451464726. By John S….
Review of Peter Itzen, Streitbare Kirche: Die Church of England vor den Herausforderungen des Wandels 1945-1990
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Peter Itzen, Streitbare Kirche: Die Church of England vor den Herausforderungen des Wandels 1945-1990 (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2013). Pp. 437. ISBN 9783832966089. By John S. Conway, University…
Review of Lucian N. Leustean, The Ecumenical Movement & the Making of the European Community
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Lucian N. Leustean, The Ecumenical Movement & the Making of the European Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Pp. 286. ISBN 9780198714569. By John S. Conway, University of…
Review of Robert Beaken, The Church of England and the Home Front 1914-1918
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Review of Robert Beaken, The Church of England and the Home Front 1914-1918 (Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2015). Pp. 272. ISBN: 9781783270514. By John S. Conway, University of British…
Book Note: Hartmut Ludwig, Suddenly Jews
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Book Note: Hartmut Ludwig, Suddenly Jews: The Story of Christians whom the Nazi racial laws classified as Jews, and of the Good Samaritans who came to their aid (the Bureau…
Review of Keith Clements, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Quest
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of Keith Clements, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Quest (Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 2015), 326 Pp. ISBN 978-2-8254-1656-3. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Keith Clements is…
Review of Andrew Atherstone and John Maiden, eds., Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Andrew Atherstone and John Maiden, eds., Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal, Studies in Modern British Religious History, Vol. 31…
Review of Timothy Jones, Sexual Politics in the Church of England 1857-1957
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Timothy Jones, Sexual Politics in the Church of England 1857-1957 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Pp 218. ISBN 978-0-19-965510-6. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia In the 1960s…
Review of Rainer Stuhlmann, Zwischen den Stühlen: Alltagsnotizen eines Christen in Israel und Palästina
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Rainer Stuhlmann, Zwischen den Stühlen: Alltagsnotizen eines Christen in Israel und Palästina (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag 2015), 155 Pp. ISBN 978-3-7615-6179-9. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia After…
Review Article: The Vatican’s response to the Nazi persecution of the Jews
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2015) Review Article: The Vatican’s response to the Nazi persecution of the Jews Susan Zuccotti, Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during…
Review of James Mace Ward, Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2015) Review of James Mace Ward, Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014). Xii + 362 Pp., ISBN 9780801419888. By John S….