Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Thomas Martin Schneider, Wem gehört Barmen? Das Gründungsdokument der Bekennenden Kirche und seine Wirkungen (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017). Pp.241. ISBN: 9783374050345. By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin; translated by…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Elisabeth Lorenz, Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus. Studien zum Neuen Testament des “Instituts zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben” (Tübingen: Mohr…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne, Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017)….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Book Note: “Religion” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). Pp. xv + 307. ISBN: 9781474217927 (Paperback). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Lisa…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Heath A. Spencer, “From Liberal Theology to Völkisch Christianity?: Heinrich Weinel, the Volkskirchenbund, and the Church Struggle in Thuringia,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall 2016):…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Giuliana Chamedes, “The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Communism in the 1930s,” Journal of Contemporary History 51, no. 2 (April 2016): 261-290. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Todd H. Weir, “A European Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Bolshevism between Moscow, Berlin, and the Vatican 1922-1933,” Journal of Religious History 39, no. 2…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.” The 10th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Pacific Lutheran University, November 1-3, 2017. By…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
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):…