Letter from the Editors (March 2019)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Letter from the Editors (March 2019) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, I am pleased to introduce you to our latest collection of reviews and informative notes relating to…
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…
Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “Between ‘National Community’ and ‘Milieu’: German Catholics at War, 1939-1945”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “Between ‘National Community’ and ‘Milieu’: German Catholics at War, 1939-1945,” Contemporary European History 26 no. 3 (August 2017): 421-440. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran University…
Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943) By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The…
Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches…