Contemporary Church History Quarterly
Volume 31, Number 3 (Fall 2025)
Theology, martyrdom and religious resistance – then and now
Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University
Why haven’t Christian churches done more to thwart the rise of authoritarian right-wing movements and regimes around the world? When pondering this loaded question, I remain haunted by an exchange that punctuated a conference on the Holocaust in the early 2000s shortly after the publication of the English-language translation of Wolfgang Gerlach’s book, And The Witnesses were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews.
