Review of Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 and 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 and 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2020). 540 pages. ISBN…
Review of Klaus Vondung, Paths to Salvation: The National Socialist Religion
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Klaus Vondung, Paths to Salvation: The National Socialist Religion, trans. William Petropulos (St Augustine’s Press: South Bend, Indiana, 2019). 168 Pp. ISBN: 978-1-58731-656-2. By Samuel Koehne, Trinity Grammar…
Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau (Coppell, TX: Dr. Danuta B. Fabisiak, 2018). 430 Pp. ISBN: 978-1732117006. By Beth…
Review of David Rice, I Will Not Serve: The Priest Who Said NO to Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of David Rice, I Will Not Serve: The Priest Who Said NO to Hitler (Dublin: Mentor Books, 2018). ISBN: 978-1-912514-04-5. By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University In the…
Review of Lucia Scherzberg, Zwischen Partei und Kirche: Nationalsozialistische Priester in Österreich und Deutschland (1938-1944)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of Lucia Scherzberg, Zwischen Partei und Kirche: Nationalsozialistische Priester in Österreich und Deutschland (1938-1944), Schriftreihe “Religion und Moderne” Band 20 (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2020). 645 pages, 49,00,-…
Review of Manfred Gailus, Friedrich Weißler. Ein Jurist und bekennender Christ im Widerstand gegen Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of Manfred Gailus, Friedrich Weißler. Ein Jurist und bekennender Christ im Widerstand gegen Hitler (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 2017). 316 pages, with illustrations and an appendix with documentation. ISBN…
Review of A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight 2019) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi The Extraordinary Stance of an Ordinary Man Scholarship tells us that the…
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…