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):…
Conference Report: “Protestant Institutions in Central Germany under National Socialist Rule”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Conference Report: “Protestant Institutions in Central Germany under National Socialist Rule,” Cecilienstift Halberstadt, September 28, 2017. By Dirk Schuster, Universität Potsdam This public workshop was jointly organized by the Chair…
Review of Stiftung Topographie des Terrors and Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, eds., “Überall Luthers Worte …” – Martin Luther im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Stiftung Topographie des Terrors and Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, eds., “Überall Luthers Worte …” – Martin Luther im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, 2017). 271 Pp., ISBN 978-3-941772-33-5….
Review of John Carter Wood, ed., Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe. Conflict, Community, and the Social Order
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of John Carter Wood, ed., Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe. Conflict, Community, and the Social Order (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 211 pages, ISBN 9783525101490. By Sarah…
Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017
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…
Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism,” Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 6, 2017 By Jeremy Stephen Roethler, Texas State University This session…
Conference Report: “Election and Probation: Religious Elites and Social Leadership”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Election and Probation: Religious Elites and Social Leadership,” Bensheim Dialogue, Institut für Personengeschichte (Bensheim), April 20-22, 2017. By Dirk Schuster, University of Potsdam For the eighth time, the…
Call for Papers: Mennonites and the Holocaust, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, March 16 and 17, 2018
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Call for Papers: Mennonites and the Holocaust, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, March 16 and 17, 2018 Proposal deadline: Sept. 1, 2017 mla.bethelks.edu/MennosandHolocaust The history of Mennonites as victims of violence in the…
Conference Report: “The Confessing Church’s Memorandum of May 28, 1936 and the Murder of Friedrich Weißler (1891-1937) in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp,” Topography of Terror
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “The Confessing Church’s Memorandum of May 28, 1936 and the Murder of Friedrich Weißler (1891-1937) in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp,” Topography of Terror, Berlin, May 28, 2016 By…
Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, November 3-6, 2016, Claremont, CA By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Letter from the Editors (September 2016)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Letter from the Editors (September 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As fall begins and students return to universities across Europe and North America, we are delighted to…
Review of Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Pp. 352, ISBN: 9780674598485. By Robert Ventresca, King’s University College at Western University Lauren Faulkner…
Conference Report: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-23 July 2016
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-23 July 2016 By Geoff Jackson, Ambrose University In late July, I had the opportunity to participate in the…
Letter from the Editors (June 2016)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Letter from the Editors (June 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As summer unfolds, we are pleased to issue our newest edition of the Contemporary Church History Quarterly. It…
Program Announcement: Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network
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…