Letter from the Editors: December 2012
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Letter from the Editors: December 2012 Dear Friends, We are pleased to relaunch our new-look journal this month, with a new WordPress platform and a new name: Contemporary Church History…
Review of Frank J. Coppa, The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII: Between Diplomacy and Morality
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Frank J. Coppa, The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII: Between Diplomacy and Morality (New York: Peter Lang, 2011). By Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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 Hildegard Frisius et al., eds., Evangelisch getauft – als Juden verfolgt. Spurensuche Berliner Kirchengemeinden
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Hildegard Frisius, Marianne Kälberer, Wolfgang G. Krogel, Gerlind Lachenicht, Frauke Lemmel, eds., Evangelisch getauft – als Juden verfolgt. Spurensuche Berliner Kirchengemeinden (Berlin: Wichern–Verlag, 2008), 452 Pp. By Manfred Gailus, Technische…
Review of Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 (New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2011), 235 Pp. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Bowling Green State…
Review of Norbert Friedrich, Uwe Kaminsky, and Roland Löffler, eds., The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East. Historical studies of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Norbert Friedrich, Uwe Kaminsky, and Roland Löffler, eds., The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East. Historical studies of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010), 252…
Review of Andrew White, The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for Peace in the Middle East
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Andrew White, The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for Peace in the Middle East (Oxford and Grand Rapids, MI: Monarch Books, 2009) 191 Pp., ISBN: 9781854248763. By John S. Conway, University…
Conference Report: Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories, Professional Interpretations
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories, Professional Interpretations, Capetown, South Africa, 20-22 August 2012 By Doris Bergen, University of Toronto This conference, sponsored by the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research…
Conference Report: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte Meeting, 2012
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte Meeting, Emden, Germany, November 8-10, 2012 By Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University On November 8-10, 2012, a conference took place under the title, “‘Befreier der Deutschen Seele:’…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust: “The Holocaust Today: New Directions in Research and Teaching,” November 1-4, 2012, Northwestern University. By Lauren Faulkner, University of Notre Dame Professor Emeritus…
Journal Issue: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Journal Issue: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, Volume 25, no. 1 (2012) “Expellees and the Church–A New Debate?” By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The latest issue of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History, Volume…
Review of Daniel Heinz, ed., Freikirchen und Juden im Dritten Reich. Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, antisemitische Vorurteile und verdrängte Schuld
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Daniel Heinz, ed., Freikirchen und Juden im Dritten Reich. Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, antisemitische Vorurteile und verdrängte Schuld. Kirche – Konfession – Religion, 54 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), Pp….
New Research on Nazism and Christianity: Samuel Koehne
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) New Research on Nazism and Christianity: Samuel Koehne By Samuel Koehne, Deakin University Sam Koehne is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute (Deakin University, Australia). He…