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…
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…
Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps, trans. Fr. Julius D. Leloczky, O.Cist. (Paraclete Press, 2020). 144 Pp. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran…
Review of Michael Brenner, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Review of Michael Brenner, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. Translated by Jeremiah Riemer. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022). 378 pages, ISBN: 978-0-691-19103-4. By…
Review of Helge-Fabien Hertz, Evangelische Kirchen im Nationalsozialismus. Kollektivbiografische Untersuchung der schleswig-holsteinischen Pastorenschaft
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Review of Helge-Fabien Hertz, Evangelische Kirchen im Nationalsozialismus. Kollektivbiografische Untersuchung der schleswig-holsteinischen Pastorenschaft (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022). ISBN: 9783110760835; 1,778 pp. Reviewed for H-Soz-Kult by Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität…
Review of Doris L. Bergen, Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 3/4 (Fall 2023) Review of Doris L. Bergen, Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. By Martin Menke, Rivier University (mmenke@rivier.edu) Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose…
Review of Kevin Madigan, The Popes Against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy
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,…