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…
Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Volume 2
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Volume 2 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). Pp. xvi + 253. ISBN: 978-1-5064-3336-3. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Victoria…
Letter from the Editors (March 2018)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Letter from the Editors (March 2018) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, With spring drawing slowly nearer, the editors are pleased to publish a new issue of Contemporary Church History…
Book Note: “Religion” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Book Note: “Religion” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). Pp. xv + 307. ISBN: 9781474217927 (Paperback). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Lisa…
Article Note: Heath A. Spencer, “From Liberal Theology to Völkisch Christianity?: Heinrich Weinel, the Volkskirchenbund, and the Church Struggle in Thuringia”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Heath A. Spencer, “From Liberal Theology to Völkisch Christianity?: Heinrich Weinel, the Volkskirchenbund, and the Church Struggle in Thuringia,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall 2016):…
Review of Lee B. Spitzer, Baptists, Jews, and the Holocaust: The Hand of Sincere Friendship
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Lee B. Spitzer, Baptists, Jews, and the Holocaust: The Hand of Sincere Friendship (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2017). Pg. xiv + 482. ISBN: 9780817017828. By Kyle Jantzen,…
Luther’s Evil Writings
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Luther’s Evil Writings The reformer was not only anti-Jewish, but also antisemitic. So he was understood in the Nazi era, too. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen,…
Review of Benjamin W. Goossen, Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Benjamin W. Goossen, Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), 266 + xiv Pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-17428-0. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Review of Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, “Möge Gott unserer Kirche helfen!” Theologiepolitik, Kirchenkampf und Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime: Die Evangelische Landeskirche Badens 1933-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, “Möge Gott unserer Kirche helfen!” Theologiepolitik, Kirchenkampf und Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime: Die Evangelische Landeskirche Badens 1933-1945 (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2015). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This…
Conference Report: 500 Years of Reformation: Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: 500 Years of Reformation: Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, February 12-14, 2017 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This year’s annual conference of…
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…
Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, October 20-22, 2016 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Under the title of “Marching…
Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War,” German History 33, no. 1 (March 2015): 80-99. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Thomas Brodie of Jesus College,…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “The Racial Yardstick: ‘Ethnotheism’ and Official Nazi Views on Religion”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “The Racial Yardstick: ‘Ethnotheism’ and Official Nazi Views on Religion,” German Studies Review 37, no. 3 (2014): 575–596. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Over the past…