Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition (Munich: DVA, 2019). 640 pages. ISBN: 978-3-421-04712-0. By Hansjörg Buss, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University At Christmas…
Review of Martin Niemöller, Gedanken über den Weg der christlichen Kirche
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Martin Niemöller, Gedanken über den Weg der christlichen Kirche, eds. Alf Christophersen and Benjamin Ziemann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019). 268 pages. ISBN: 9783579085449. Reviewed by Robert P. Ericksen,…
Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2019). 336 pages + 25 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-406-73137-2. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester Wolfgang Huber…
Review of Rebecca Scherf, Evangelische Kirche und Konzentrationslager
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Rebecca Scherf, Evangelische Kirche und Konzentrationslager (1933 bis 1945) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). 296 pages. ISBN 978-3-525-57057-9. By Victoria J. Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Retired)…
Review of Gerhard Ringshausen and Andrew Chandler, eds., The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence: In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1 (March 2020) Review of Gerhard Ringshausen and Andrew Chandler, eds., The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence: In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). 476 pages. ISBN 978-1-4742-5766-4….
Review of Dietz Bering, Luther im Fronteinsatz. Propagandastrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Dietz Bering, Luther im Fronteinsatz. Propagandastrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018). Pp. 229. By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto Sometime in the late 1980s, when I…
Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945 (Berlin: Metropol, 2018). Pp. 294. ISBN: 9783863313821. By Christina Matzen, University of Toronto Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen…
Review of Michael P. DeJonge, Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Michael P. DeJonge, Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 170 Pp. ISBN: 9780198824176. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Michael P. DeJonge’s…
Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018). 284 Pp. ISBN: 9780674047686. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…
Review of Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kißener, eds., Catholics and Third Reich: Controversies and Debates
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kißener, eds., Catholics and Third Reich: Controversies and Debates, translated by Christof Morrisey (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018), 315 Pp., ISBN: 9783506787866. By Kevin P….
Review of Anita Rasi May, Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Anita Rasi May, Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), X + 162 Pp., ISBN: 9780806159089….
Review of James Enns. Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945-1974
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of James Enns. Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). 328 Pp. ISBN: 9780773549135. By Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States…
Review of Maria Anna Zumholz and Michael Hirschfeld, eds., Zwischen Seelsorge und Politik: Katholische Bischöfe in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Maria Anna Zumholz and Michael Hirschfeld, eds., Zwischen Seelsorge und Politik: Katholische Bischöfe in der NS-Zeit (Münster: Aschendorf Verlag, 2017), XII + 817 Pp., ISBN: 9783402132289. By Lauren…
Review of Thomas Brodie, German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Thomas Brodie, German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945 (Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, 2018), 288 Pp., ISBN: 9780198827023. By Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., Stonehill College In German Catholicism at War,…
Review of Michael E. O’Sullivan, Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Michael E. O’Sullivan, Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), 344 Pp., ISBN: 9781487503437. By Kevin P. Spicer,…