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,…
Review of Ian M. Randall, A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Ian M. Randall, A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942 (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018), 241 pp., ISBN: 9781532639982. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester…
Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis (New York: Basic Books, 2018). 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-465-09786-9. Reviewed by Robert…
Review of Roger J. Newell, Keine Gewalt! No Violence! How the Church Gave Birth to Germany’s Only Peaceful Revolution
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Roger J. Newell, Keine Gewalt! No Violence! How the Church Gave Birth to Germany’s Only Peaceful Revolution (Wipf & Stock, 2017), 212 pp. ISBN 978-1-5326-1282-4. By Andrew Chandler,…
Review of Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and the German Historical Institute, 2019). By Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College In 1984,…
Review of Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017). 284 pp. ISBN: 9781472586919. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Beth…