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….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Article Note: Ionuṭ Biliuṭă, “Fascism, Race, and Religion in Interwar Transylvania: The Case of Father Liviu Stan (1910–1973),” Church History 89:1 (March 2020): 101-124. By Heath A. Spencer, Seattle University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Article Note: Thomas J. Kehoe, “The Reich Military Court and Its Values: Wehrmacht Treatment of Jehovah’s Witness Conscientious Objectors,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 33, no 3 (2019): 351-371. By Doris…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) The German Bishops in the World War: The English Text In the March 2020 issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly, we featured two analyses of the German Bishops Conference statement, “Deutsche…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Letter from the Editors (June 2020) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear friends, We are delighted, after several months of upheaval, to finally be able to publish a new issue…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Ordinary Men and Ordinary Bishops: The Catholic Church during the Second World War By Olaf Blaschke, University of Münster The following commentary examines the April 29, 2020, publication of “Deutsche Bischöfe…
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…