Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Klaus Vondung, Paths to Salvation: The National Socialist Religion, trans. William Petropulos (St Augustine’s Press: South Bend, Indiana, 2019). 168 Pp. ISBN: 978-1-58731-656-2. By Samuel Koehne, Trinity Grammar…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau (Coppell, TX: Dr. Danuta B. Fabisiak, 2018). 430 Pp. ISBN: 978-1732117006. By Beth…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of David Rice, I Will Not Serve: The Priest Who Said NO to Hitler (Dublin: Mentor Books, 2018). ISBN: 978-1-912514-04-5. By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University In the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Research Report: Ben Goossen on Mennonites, Nazism, and the Holocaust By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Since the publication of his widely acclaimed history of Mennonite identity, Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Webinar Announcement: The Opening of the Pius XII Archive and Holocaust Research By Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The American Catholic Historical Association is holding a webinar entitled…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Call for Editors The editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly would like to invite applications for up to five new positions on the editorial team. We would welcome scholars who…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 4 (December 2020) Letter from the Editors (December 2020) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, This is just a short note to explain that, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Letter from the Editors (September 2020) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, Once again it is a pleasure to offer you our newest series of articles, reviews, and notes…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Fierce Culture Wars Over Three Construction Projects in the German Capital Region By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dr. Manfred Gailus is an…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) The Nazis and Religion: Digital Visual Resources for Research and Teaching By Samuel Koehne, Trinity Grammar School Given the continuing interruption that COVID-19 poses around the world, this review considers…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of Lucia Scherzberg, Zwischen Partei und Kirche: Nationalsozialistische Priester in Österreich und Deutschland (1938-1944), Schriftreihe “Religion und Moderne” Band 20 (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2020). 645 pages, 49,00,-…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of Manfred Gailus, Friedrich Weißler. Ein Jurist und bekennender Christ im Widerstand gegen Hitler (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 2017). 316 pages, with illustrations and an appendix with documentation. ISBN…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight 2019) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi The Extraordinary Stance of an Ordinary Man Scholarship tells us that the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Article Note: Jörg L. Spenkuch and Philipp Tillmann, “Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis,” American Journal of Political Science 62:1 (January 2018): 19-36. By Heath A….