Letter from the Editors (December 2018)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Letter from the Editors (December 2018) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, As we enter into Advent 2018, the editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly are pleased once again to…
The Great Silence: How the Churches Behaved When the Synagogues Burned in November 1938
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) The Great Silence: How the Churches Behaved When the Synagogues Burned in November 1938 By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article was…
Review of Dirk Schuster, Die Lehre vom ‘arischen’ Christentum: Das wissenschaftliche Selbstverständnis im Einseacher ‘Entjudungsinstitut’
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Review of Dirk Schuster, Die Lehre vom ‘arischen’ Christentum: Das wissenschaftliche Selbstverständnis im Einseacher ‘Entjudungsinstitut’ (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017) By Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Scholarship on the pro-Nazi Deutsche Christen (DC),…
Review of Horst Junginger, The Scientification of the “Jewish Question” in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Review of Horst Junginger, The Scientification of the “Jewish Question” in Nazi Germany (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017), 456pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-34107-4. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College…
Review of Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann (Hg.), Zwischen Christuskreuz und Hakenkreuz. Biografien von Theologen der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Review of Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann (Hg.), Zwischen Christuskreuz und Hakenkreuz. Biografien von Theologen der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens im Nationalsozialismus (Göttingen: Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), pp. 328, ISBN: 978-3-8471-0726-2 By Björn…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies XV, The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies XV, The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2018 By Lauren Rossi, Simon Fraser University The Holocaust Educational Foundation’s…
Conference Report: “Religion and Migration: Institutions and Law”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Conference Report: “Religion and Migration: Institutions and Law,” Sponsored by the Religious Cultures Network, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2018. By Christina Matzen, University of Toronto Five scholars convened…
New Research on Nazism and Christianity: David A. R. Clark
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) New Research on Nazism and Christianity: David A. R. Clark By David A. R. Clark, University of Toronto From time to time, the editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly invite a…
Letter from the Editors (September 2018)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Letter from the Editors (September 2018) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, As summer turns to autumn, and universities begin a new year, the editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly are…
Review of Wolfgang Thielmann, ed., Alternative für Christen? Die AfD und ihr gespaltenes Verhältnis zur Religion
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Wolfgang Thielmann, ed., Alternative für Christen? Die AfD und ihr gespaltenes Verhältnis zur Religion (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2017). Pp. 192. ISBN: 978-3-7615-6439-4. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University This…
Review of Peter Gbiorczyk, Probst Wilhelm Wibbeling (1891-1966): Jugendbewegter, reformierte Theologe im “Zeitalter der Extreme”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Peter Gbiorczyk, Probst Wilhelm Wibbeling (1891-1966): Jugendbewegter, reformierte Theologe im “Zeitalter der Extreme” (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2016). Pp. 769. ISBN 978-3-8440-4772-1. By Victoria J. Barnett, United States Holocaust…
Review of Katrin Rudolph, Hilfe beim Sprung ins Nichts: Franz Kaufmann und die Rettung von Juden und “nichtarischen” Christen
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Review of Katrin Rudolph, Hilfe beim Sprung ins Nichts: Franz Kaufmann und die Rettung von Juden und “nichtarischen” Christen. Publikationen der Gedenkstätte Helden. Band 7 (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2017). Pp….
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…
Article Note: Johannes Due Enstad, “Prayers and Patriotism in Nazi-Occupied Russia: The Pskov Orthodox Mission and Religious Revival, 1941-1944″
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Article Note: Johannes Due Enstad, “Prayers and Patriotism in Nazi-Occupied Russia: The Pskov Orthodox Mission and Religious Revival, 1941-1944,” Slavonic and East European Review 94, no 3 (2016): 468-96. By…