Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit. Bozen (Bolzano): Athesia Verlag, 2019. 299 pp. By Martin Menke, Rivier University This volume is a revised…
Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022. By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University In over five hundred pages, this hefty…
Film Review of Zwischen uns Gott, Directed by Rebecca Hirneise
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Film Review of Zwischen uns Gott, Directed by Rebecca Hirneise (Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion, 2024) By Dirk Schuster, University of Vienna Zwischen uns Gott (Between Us God), the title of the…
Review of Andreas Pangritz, Die Schattenseite des Christentums. Theologie und Antisemitismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Review of Andreas Pangritz, Die Schattenseite des Christentums. Theologie und Antisemitismus. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023. Dirk Schuster, University of Vienna Theology and antisemitism: to be honest, the subtitle of the book…
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…
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…