Ordinary Men and Ordinary Bishops: The Catholic Church during the Second World War
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Ordinary Men and Ordinary Bishops: The Catholic Church during the Second World War By Olaf Blaschke, University of Münster The following commentary examines the April 29, 2020, publication of “Deutsche Bischöfe…
Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition (Munich: DVA, 2019). 640 pages. ISBN: 978-3-421-04712-0. By Hansjörg Buss, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University At Christmas…
Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945 (Berlin: Metropol, 2018). Pp. 294. ISBN: 9783863313821. By Christina Matzen, University of Toronto Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen…
Conference Report: “Soldiers, Sex, Chaplains, and Horses: A Panel on the Wehrmacht in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Conference Report: “Soldiers, Sex, Chaplains, and Horses: A Panel on the Wehrmacht in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg,” German Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 2019. By Christina Matzen, University of…
Call for Applications: Confronting Difficult Issues around Religion and the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Call for Applications: Confronting Difficult Issues around Religion and the Holocaust June 15–19, 2020 Application deadline: February 14, 2020 The Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust of the United…
Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches…
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 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: “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…
Review of Joachim Krause, Im Glauben an Gott und Hitler. Die “Deutschen Christen“ aus dem Wieratal und ihr Siegeszug ins Reich von 1928 bis 1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Joachim Krause, Im Glauben an Gott und Hitler. Die “Deutschen Christen“ aus dem Wieratal und ihr Siegeszug ins Reich von 1928 bis 1945 (an annotated documentation / eine…
Article Note: Janice A. Thompson, “Renewing the Church as a Community of Hope: The German Catholic Church Confronts the Shoah”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Article Note: Janice A. Thompson, “Renewing the Church as a Community of Hope: The German Catholic Church Confronts the Shoah,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 51, no. 3 (2016): 337-365. By…
Review of Elisabeth Lorenz, Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Elisabeth Lorenz, Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus. Studien zum Neuen Testament des “Instituts zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben” (Tübingen: Mohr…
Article Note: Andrew H. Beattie, “‘Lobby for the Nazi Elite’? The Protestant Churches and Civilian Internment in the British Zone of Occupied Germany, 1945–1948”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Article Note: Andrew H. Beattie, “‘Lobby for the Nazi Elite’? The Protestant Churches and Civilian Internment in the British Zone of Occupied Germany, 1945–1948,” German History 35, no. 1 (2017):…