Letter from the Editors (December 2017)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Letter from the Editors (December 2017) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, As the Advent season is once again upon us, the editors are pleased to publish a new…
Review of Mark Edward Ruff, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Mark Edward Ruff, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Pp. 408. ISBN 9781107190665. Reviewed by Robert P. Ericksen Mark Edward…
Review of Joachim Negel and Karl Pinggéra, eds., Urkatastrophe. Die Erfahrung des Krieges 1914-1918 im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Theologie
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Joachim Negel and Karl Pinggéra, eds., Urkatastrophe. Die Erfahrung des Krieges 1914-1918 im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Theologie (Freiburg: Herder, 2016). Pp. 540. ISBN 9783451328510. Heath A. Spencer, Seattle University…
Review of Lee B. Spitzer, Baptists, Jews, and the Holocaust: The Hand of Sincere Friendship
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Lee B. Spitzer, Baptists, Jews, and the Holocaust: The Hand of Sincere Friendship (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2017). Pg. xiv + 482. ISBN: 9780817017828. By Kyle Jantzen,…
Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017). Pp. 161….
Article Note: Andrew H. Beattie, “‘Lobby for the Nazi Elite’? The Protestant Churches and Civilian Internment in the British Zone of Occupied Germany, 1945–1948”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Article Note: Andrew H. Beattie, “‘Lobby for the Nazi Elite’? The Protestant Churches and Civilian Internment in the British Zone of Occupied Germany, 1945–1948,” German History 35, no. 1 (2017):…
Article Note: Ion Popa, “Sanctuary from the Holocaust? Roman Catholic Conversion of Jews in Bucharest, Romania, 1942”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Article Note: Ion Popa, “Sanctuary from the Holocaust? Roman Catholic Conversion of Jews in Bucharest, Romania, 1942,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, no 1 (Spring 2015): 39-56. By Doris L….
Conference Report: “Protestant Institutions in Central Germany under National Socialist Rule”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Conference Report: “Protestant Institutions in Central Germany under National Socialist Rule,” Cecilienstift Halberstadt, September 28, 2017. By Dirk Schuster, Universität Potsdam This public workshop was jointly organized by the Chair…
Conference Report: “Religious Revivals in 19th and 20th century Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Conference Report: “Religious Revivals in 19th and 20th century Germany,” German Studies Association, 2017 By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University Thirteen historians, religious studies scholars and literary specialists gathered…