Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) The Old Picture Is No Longer Valid: Why the Time Is Ripe for a Reassessment of the Ecclesiastical Figure of the Century, Otto Dibelius By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Manfred Gailus, Gläubige Zeiten. Religiosität im Dritten Reich (Freiburg: Herder 2021). 223 pages. ISBN 9783451033391. By Sarah Thieme, University of Münster With his monograph “Gläubige Zeiten”, Manfred Gailus,…
Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan (Stuttgart: Langenmüller, 2020). 448 pages. ISBN 978-3-7844-3449-0. By Martin Menke, Rivier University Michael…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Jeremy Best, Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture in the Age of Empire (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Pp. 322. ISBN: 9781487505639. By Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University Questions…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of James D. Strasburg, God’s Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp . 313 + ix. ISBN:…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Manfred Gailus, Gegen den Mainstream der Hitlerzeit – Der Wuppertaler Theologe Helmut Hesse (1916-1943) (Bremen, Wuppertal: De Noantri, 2019). 80 pp. ISBN: 978-3-943643-11-4. By Christopher Probst, Washington University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Journal Note: MCC and National Socialism, Intersections: MCC Theory & Practice Quarterly 9, no. 4 (Fall 2021) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Over the past five years, much have been…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Article Note: Benjamin W. Goossen, “The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945-2000,” Antisemitism Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 233-265. By Kyle…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Conference Report: 35th Annual Conference of the Schwerter Arbeitskreis für Katholizismusforschung By Sarah Thieme, WWU University of Münster, and Martin Belz, Institute for Mainz Church History Conference organizers: Sarah Thieme,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Letter from the Editors (December 2021) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, As Christmas approaches and the 2021 year draws to a close, the editors of Contemporary Church History…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Review of Robert M. Zoske, Sophie Scholl: “Es reut mich nichts.” Porträt einer Widerständigen (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2020), 448 pages. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Review of Ulrich Peter, Lutherrose und Hakenkreuz. Die Deutschen Christen und der Bund der nationalsozialistischen Pastoren in der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche Mecklenburgs (Kiel: Lutherische Verlagsanstalt, 2020). 607 pages. ISBN 978-3-87503-266-6. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Review of Jonas Hagedorn, Oswald von Nell-Breuning: Aufbrüche der katholischen Soziallehre in der Weimarer Republik (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019). 532 pages. ISBN 978-3-657-78795-1. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Architectural and Website Note: “Lernort Garnisonkirche” (“Potsdam Garrison Church Site of Learning”) By Philipp Oswalt, Universität Kassel; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The tower of the Potsdam Garrison Church,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Chapter Note: Karl Schwarz on Gerhard Kittel By Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University (Emeritus) “Sie haben [. . .] geholfen, den nationalistischen Einbruch in unsere Kirche abzuwehren.” Anmerkungen zu…