Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) “The German Catholic Bishops and the Second World War: A Historic Reappraisal” By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University On May 8, 2020, the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition (Munich: DVA, 2019). 640 pages. ISBN: 978-3-421-04712-0. By Hansjörg Buss, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University At Christmas…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Martin Niemöller, Gedanken über den Weg der christlichen Kirche, eds. Alf Christophersen and Benjamin Ziemann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019). 268 pages. ISBN: 9783579085449. Reviewed by Robert P. Ericksen,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2019). 336 pages + 25 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-406-73137-2. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester Wolfgang Huber…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Rebecca Scherf, Evangelische Kirche und Konzentrationslager (1933 bis 1945) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). 296 pages. ISBN 978-3-525-57057-9. By Victoria J. Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Retired)…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1 (March 2020) Review of Gerhard Ringshausen and Andrew Chandler, eds., The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence: In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). 476 pages. ISBN 978-1-4742-5766-4….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Article Note: Andrea Hofmann, “Martin Luther in First World War Sermons,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 31, no. 1, Glaube und der Erste Weltkrieg/Faith in the First World War (2018): 118-130. By Christopher…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) News Note: “Campaign posters in ‘Luther country’ raise specter of anti-Semitism” By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College Last September, religion scholar and journalist Ken Chitwood asked…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Multi-Media Note: “The Danger of Indifference: ‘Then They Came for Me,’” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Facebook Live Presentation, June 10, 2020 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University During the coronavirus…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Letter from the Editors (April 2020) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, I’m writing to you at the end of April to announce what must be obvious by now–that our March issue of Contemporary Church History…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Letter from the Editors (December 2019) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, Although this issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly has been somewhat delayed, we believe the content will be worth…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Was There a Religious Revival in the “Third Reich”? By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article was originally published in Tagesspiegel, November…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Dietz Bering, Luther im Fronteinsatz. Propagandastrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018). Pp. 229. By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto Sometime in the late 1980s, when I…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945 (Berlin: Metropol, 2018). Pp. 294. ISBN: 9783863313821. By Christina Matzen, University of Toronto Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Michael P. DeJonge, Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 170 Pp. ISBN: 9780198824176. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Michael P. DeJonge’s…