Review of Keith W. Clements, J.H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of Keith W. Clements, J.H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers (Fortress Press, 2022), pp. xv + 235. ISBN: 9781506470009. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester The distinguished British…
Review of Andrew Chandler, British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Andrew Chandler, British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. x + 422. ISBN: 9781107129047. By Kyle…
Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit
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…
Review of Gerhard Ringshausen and Andrew Chandler, eds., The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence: In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958
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….
Review of Ian M. Randall, A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Ian M. Randall, A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942 (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018), 241 pp., ISBN: 9781532639982. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester…
Review of Roger J. Newell, Keine Gewalt! No Violence! How the Church Gave Birth to Germany’s Only Peaceful Revolution
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Roger J. Newell, Keine Gewalt! No Violence! How the Church Gave Birth to Germany’s Only Peaceful Revolution (Wipf & Stock, 2017), 212 pp. ISBN 978-1-5326-1282-4. By Andrew Chandler,…
Review of Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne, Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne, Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017)….
Review Article: The Quest for the Historical Schweitzers
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review Article: The Quest for the Historical Schweitzers By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester James Carleton Paget and Michael J. Thate (eds.), Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life…
Review of Andrew Chandler, George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Andrew Chandler, George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016), Pp. xii + 212, ISBN: 9780802872272. By…
These Church Historians of Our Time: Markus Huttner, Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier, Huamin Toshiko Mackman
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) These Church Historians of Our Time: Markus Huttner, Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier, Huamin Toshiko Mackman * By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester In these days of professionalism and of stolid institutions of…
Review of David Nash, Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of David Nash, Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) ISBN 978-0-230-57265-2. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester The cover…
Catholicism, Dictatorship and the World at War: The Significance of Cardinal Hinsley, 1935-1943
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Catholicism, Dictatorship and the World at War: The Significance of Cardinal Hinsley, 1935-1943 By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester This month brings the seventieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal…
Review of Andrew Chandler, ed., The Church and Humanity: The Life and Work of George Bell, 1883-1958
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Andrew Chandler, ed., The Church and Humanity: The Life and Work of George Bell, 1883-1958. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012), Pp. xvi + 227, ISBN 978-14094-25564. By…
Review of S. J. D. Green, The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920-1960
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2012 Review of S. J. D. Green, The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 333 Pp., ISBN 978-0-521-83977-8. By Andrew Chandler, George Bell Institute, University…
Letter from the Editors: December 2011
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2011 Letter from the Editors: December 2011 It was exactly seventy years ago that the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, took the striking step of writing a Christmas message to be broadcast by the…