Article Note: William Skiles, “Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Article Note: William Skiles, “Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74, no. 1 (January 2023): 90-115. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University In…
Chapter Note: Susannah Heschel, “Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring 2024) Chapter Note: Susannah Heschel, “Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany,” in: On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence, ed. Irene Kacandes (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 136-172. By Kyle Jantzen,…
Article Note: Gordon L. Heath, “Canadian Presbyterians and the Rejection of Pacifism in the Interwar Years, 1919-1939”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 3/4 (Fall 2023) Article Note: Gordon L. Heath, “Canadian Presbyterians and the Rejection of Pacifism in the Interwar Years, 1919-1939,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 98, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2020), 66-77. By Kyle Jantzen,…
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…
Article Note: Harry Legg, “Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: The Everyday Life of a Forgotten Group Within Nazi Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Article Note: Harry Legg, “Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: The Everyday Life of a Forgotten Group Within Nazi Germany,” Journal of Holocaust Research 36 no. 4 (2022): 299-326. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Review of James D. Strasburg, God’s Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of James D. Strasburg, God’s Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp . 313 + ix. ISBN:…
Article Note: Benjamin W. Goossen, “The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945-2000”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Article Note: Benjamin W. Goossen, “The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945-2000,” Antisemitism Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 233-265. By Kyle…
Conference Report: “Nazi Germany, International Protestantism, and the German Churches”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Conference Report: “Nazi Germany, International Protestantism, and the German Churches,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN and virtual, October 1, 2021. By Blake McKinney, Texas Baptist College After a…
Research Report: Ben Goossen on Mennonites, Nazism, and the Holocaust
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…
Article Note: Heath Spencer, “The Thuringian Volkskirchenbund, the Nazi Revolution, and Völkisch Conceptions of Christianity”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: Heath Spencer, “The Thuringian Volkskirchenbund, the Nazi Revolution, and Völkisch Conceptions of Christianity,” Church History 87, no. 4 (December 2018): 1091-1118. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Recently, Heath…
Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Psalm 74:8 and November 1938: Rereading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Kristallnacht Annotation in its Interpretive Context”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Psalm 74:8 and November 1938: Rereading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Kristallnacht Annotation in its Interpretive Context,” Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 3 (2018): 253–266. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Antisemitism, Violence, and Invective against the Old Testament: Reinhold Krause’s Sportpalast Speech, 1933”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Antisemitism, Violence, and Invective against the Old Testament: Reinhold Krause’s Sportpalast Speech, 1933,” Canadian-American Theological Review 7 (2018): 124-137. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University David…
Review of Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017). 284 pp. ISBN: 9781472586919. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Beth…
Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943) By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The…
Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches…