Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, October 20-22, 2016 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Under the title of “Marching…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Letter from the Editors (September 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As fall begins and students return to universities across Europe and North America, we are delighted to…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Pp. 352, ISBN: 9780674598485. By Robert Ventresca, King’s University College at Western University Lauren Faulkner…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Christoph Picker, Gabriele Stueber, Klaus Buemlein, and Frank-Matthias Hofmann, eds., Protestanten ohne Protest: Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus, 2 Vols. (Speyer and Leipzig: Verlagshaus Speyer and Evangelische…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 760-790. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933,” Past and Present 229 (Nov. 2015): 201-238. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University Though…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War,” German History 33, no. 1 (March 2015): 80-99. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Thomas Brodie of Jesus College,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (London: Penguin Books, 2015), Pp. 593, ISBN: 9780713990898. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Despite its theologically-sounding title, this…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: “Not Without the Old Testament”: The Importance of the Hebrew Bible for Christianity and Judaism, French Church of Friedrichstadt, Berlin, 8-10 December 2015 By Gerhard Naber, Nordhorn, and…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-23 July 2016 By Geoff Jackson, Ambrose University In late July, I had the opportunity to participate in the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Film Note: Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College In post-WWI Germany, law had been a most respected entity, with the country thriving thanks…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Letter from the Editors (June 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As summer unfolds, we are pleased to issue our newest edition of the Contemporary Church History Quarterly. It…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) On the Confessing Church’s June 1936 Memorandum to Hitler By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Confessing Church’s most courageous act of opposition…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Tetyana Pavlush, Kirche nach Auschwitz zwischen Theologie und Vergangenheitspolitik: Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen beider deutscher Staaten mit der Judenvernichtung im “Dritten Reich” im politsch-gesellschaftlichen Kontext (Frankfurt: Peter Lang…