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 Harry Oelke, Wolfgang Kraus, et. al., eds., Martin Luthers “Judenschriften”. Die Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Harry Oelke, Wolfgang Kraus, et. al., eds., Martin Luthers “Judenschriften”. Die Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 338 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-525-55789-1. By Christopher Probst, Washington…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 760-790. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St….
Film Note: Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Film Note: Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College In post-WWI Germany, law had been a most respected entity, with the country thriving thanks…
Review of George Faithful, Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of George Faithful, Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), xvii+270 pp. Reviewed by Christopher J. Probst, University College at Washington…
Review of Alon Confino, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Alon Confino, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2014), 284pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-18854-7. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in…
Letter from the Editors: September 2012
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2012 Letter from the Editors: September 2012 Dear Friends, We are pleased to present you with this new issue of the ACCH Quarterly. In this issue, we cover much ground – thematically,…
Review of Hansjörg Buss, “Entjudete” Kirche: Die Lübecker Landeskirche zwischen christlichem Antijudaismus und völkischem Antisemitismus (1918-1950)
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2012 Review of Hansjörg Buss, “Entjudete” Kirche: Die Lübecker Landeskirche zwischen christlichem Antijudaismus und völkischem Antisemitismus (1918-1950). (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011), 559 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-506-77014-1. By Christopher J. Probst, Saint Louis University Hansjörg Buss’s…
Review of Anders Gerdmar, Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2011 Review of Anders Gerdmar, Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann. Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 20 (Leiden, Boston:…
Review of Tanja Hetzer, “Deutsche Stunde”: Volksgemeinschaft und Antisemitismus in der politischen Theologie bei Paul Althaus
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2010 Review of Tanja Hetzer, “Deutsche Stunde”: Volksgemeinschaft und Antisemitismus in der politischen Theologie bei Paul Althaus (Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2009), 296pp. ISBN: 978-3-86520-328-1. By Christopher Probst, Howard Community College Tanja Hetzer’s in-depth study…