Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Peter Gbiorczyk, Probst Wilhelm Wibbeling (1891-1966): Jugendbewegter, reformierte Theologe im “Zeitalter der Extreme” (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2016). Pp. 769. ISBN 978-3-8440-4772-1. By Victoria J. Barnett, United States Holocaust…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Katrin Rudolph, Hilfe beim Sprung ins Nichts: Franz Kaufmann und die Rettung von Juden und “nichtarischen” Christen. Publikationen der Gedenkstätte Helden. Band 7 (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2017). Pp….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Volume 2 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). Pp. xvi + 253. ISBN: 978-1-5064-3336-3. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Victoria…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Article Note: Johannes Due Enstad, “Prayers and Patriotism in Nazi-Occupied Russia: The Pskov Orthodox Mission and Religious Revival, 1941-1944,” Slavonic and East European Review 94, no 3 (2016): 468-96. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Letter from the Editors (June 2018) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, As summer begins, the editors are pleased to publish a new issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly. This…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Shrill Bell Ringing With “Hitler Bells,” Protestant churches backed the “Führer.” Many still ring today. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Manfred Gailus and Clemens Vollnhals, eds., Für ein artgemässes Christentum der Tat: Völkische Theologen im “Dritten Reich”, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2016, 329 pp. By Robert P. Ericksen,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Matthias Grünzig, Für Deutschtum und Vaterland. Die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche im 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Metropol, 2017). Pp. 383. ISBN: 978-3-86331-296-1. By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto Für Deutschtum und…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). Pp. 48. ISBN: 9781506433387. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University In this slim…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Joachim Krause, Im Glauben an Gott und Hitler. Die “Deutschen Christen“ aus dem Wieratal und ihr Siegeszug ins Reich von 1928 bis 1945 (an annotated documentation / eine…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Come Before Winter: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Companions in the Dying Gasps of the Third Reich, directed by Kevin Ekvall (Woodbury, MN: Stories That Glow Collectors, 2016). By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Article Note: Janice A. Thompson, “Renewing the Church as a Community of Hope: The German Catholic Church Confronts the Shoah,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 51, no. 3 (2016): 337-365. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Letter from the Editors (March 2018) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, With spring drawing slowly nearer, the editors are pleased to publish a new issue of Contemporary Church History…
Review of Martin Röw, Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz: die katholische Feldpastoral, 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Martin Röw, Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz: die katholische Feldpastoral, 1939-1945 (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2014). By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Martin Röw’s Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz…