Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Review of Traude Litzka, The Church’s Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna, trans. Gerda Joseph (Wien: LIT Verlag, 2018). 159 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-643-91036-3. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Review of Ian Harker, Pearls before Swine: The Extraordinary Story of The Reverend Ernst Biberstein, Lutheran Pastor and Murder Squad Commander (Canterbury, UK: Holocaust Studies Center, 2017), 72 pp., ISBN:…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Review of Alexander Reynolds, To War Without Arms: The Journal of Reverend Alexander Reynolds, May – November 1944: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain, ed. Simon Trew (Devizes, UK:…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Webinar Note: The Opening of the Pius XII Archives and Holocaust Research By Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum On March 2, 2020, the multiple archives relating to the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Webinar Note: Christian Nationalism – A Conversation By Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University At the time of this writing, the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville is battling for its…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Conference Report: Martin Niemöller und seine internationale Rezeption – Martin Niemöller and his international reception, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, April 27-28, 2021 By Michael Heymel, Independent Scholar and Central Archives of the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Letter from the Editors (March 2021) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, After a hiatus in December 2020, the editorial team of Contemporary Church History Quarterly is pleased to offer…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Public Lecture: “‘The Church is not Afraid of History’: The Opening of the Vatican Archives, 1939-1958” By: Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This lecture, the Hal Israel Endowed…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Article: “Simultaneously Devout Christian and Antisemite: The Tübingen Theologian and ‘Jewish Researcher’ Gerhard Kittel” By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article was…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 and 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2020). 540 pages. ISBN…
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…