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Review Article: Tim Lorentzen, Bonhoeffers Widerstand im Gedächtnis der Nachwelt

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review Article: Tim Lorentzen, Bonhoeffers Widerstand im Gedächtnis der Nachwelt. (Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023). Illustrations. ISBN 978-3-506-70473-3. By Victoria J. Barnett, General Editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English edition, and former director, Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.[i] This fall a […]

Film Review:  Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Film Review:  Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin, directed by Todd Komarnicki (Angel Studios, 2024) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, Continuing & Professional Studies Introduction On the morning of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, age 39, was hanged on a gallows at Flossenbürg concentration camp. […]

Review of John A. Moses, Anglicanism: Catholic Evangelical or Evangelical Catholic? Essays Ecumenical and Polemical. A Homage to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Küng, Martin Luther and John Henry Newman

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 3 (September 2021) Review of John A. Moses, Anglicanism: Catholic Evangelical or Evangelical Catholic? Essays Ecumenical and Polemical. A Homage to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Küng, Martin Luther and John Henry Newman (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2019), pp.xxxiii + 155. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester John Moses is a […]

Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Wolfgang Huber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2019). 336 pages + 25 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-406-73137-2. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester Wolfgang Huber is a distinguished voice in the German theological world, both academic and ecclesiastical, and a […]

Review of Michael P. DeJonge, Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Michael P. DeJonge, Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the Wheel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 170 Pp. ISBN: 9780198824176. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Michael P. DeJonge’s book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theo-political vision of resistance is a concise response to recent conflicting […]

Article Note: David A.R. Clark, “Psalm 74:8 and November 1938: Rereading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Kristallnacht Annotation in its Interpretive Context”

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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 University Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s complex relationship to Jews and Judaism continues to preoccupy both historians and […]

Article Note: David Robinson and Ryan Tafilowski, “Conflict and Concession: Nationality in the Pastorate for Althaus and Bonhoeffer”

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Article Note: David Robinson and Ryan Tafilowski, “Conflict and Concession: Nationality in the Pastorate for Althaus and Bonhoeffer,” Scottish Journal of Theology 70, no. 2 (May 2017): 127-46. By Victoria J. Barnett, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum* Paul Althaus and Dietrich Bonhoeffer are generally understood […]

Theology in Uncertain Times: An Interview with Bonhoeffer Scholar Victoria J. Barnett

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) “Theology in Uncertain Times: An Interview with Bonhoeffer Scholar Victoria J. Barnett” By Collegeville Institute This article was originally published in Bearings Online, July 17, 2018. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the Collegeville Institute. You can view the original interview here. Disclaimer: […]

Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Volume 2

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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 Barnett, general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, has ably selected, edited, and […]

Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Victoria J. Barnett, ed., “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). Pp. 48. ISBN: 9781506433387. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University In this slim volume, Victoria J. Barnett, general editor (2004-2014) of the celebrated Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition […]

Review of Come Before Winter: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Companions in the Dying Gasps of the Third Reich

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Come Before Winter: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Companions in the Dying Gasps of the Third Reich, directed by Kevin Ekvall (Woodbury, MN: Stories That Glow Collectors, 2016). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This film aims to tackle two stories in one: the life […]

Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017 By Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia On this spring weekend marking the 72nd anniversary of the execution of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the Nazis in […]

Article Note: Ján Liguš, “Obedience or Resistance: The Legacy of Bonhoeffer”

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Article Note: Ján Liguš, “Obedience or Resistance: The Legacy of Bonhoeffer,” European Journal of Theology 24:2 (2015), 173-182. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University In this article, Ján Liguš offers a brief overview of Bonhoeffer’s theology with a focus on church-state relations, submission to legitimate authorities, […]

Program Announcement: Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Program Announcement: Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network The Bonhoeffer Chair in Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, New York, is pleased to announce a new research project: Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network, funded by the German Federal Government. Beginning in June 2017, […]

Ferdinand Schlingensiepen and the Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer

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Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Ferdinand Schlingensiepen and the Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer [1] In recent years, the field of Bonhoeffer studies has been dominated by debates about two biographies: Eric Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and […]