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…
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,…
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,…
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Digital Humanities Highlight: American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust in the USHMM’s Experiencing History: Holocaust Sources in Context By Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Experiencing History is…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Book Note: Manfred Gailus, “Religion,” in A Companion to Nazi Germany, eds. Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). ISBN: 9781118936887. Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: Heath Spencer, “The Thuringian Volkskirchenbund, the Nazi Revolution, and Völkisch Conceptions of Christianity,” Church History 87, no. 4 (December 2018): 1091-1118. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Recently, Heath…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Psalm 74:8 and November 1938: Rereading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Kristallnacht Annotation in its Interpretive Context,” Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 3 (2018): 253–266. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Antisemitism, Violence, and Invective against the Old Testament: Reinhold Krause’s Sportpalast Speech, 1933,” Canadian-American Theological Review 7 (2018): 124-137. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University David…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…