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…
Conference Announcement: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-22 July 2016
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Conference Announcement: Faith and the First World War, University of Glasgow, 21-22 July 2016 The extent and importance of religious faith in the First World War is undoubtedly one of…
Public Lecture: On the Side of the Disenfranchised and the Weak: The Office of Pastor Grüber (1938-1940)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Public Lecture: On the Side of the Disenfranchised and the Weak: The Office of Pastor Grüber (1938-1940) By Hartmut Ludwig, Humboldt University, Berlin; translated by John S. Conway, University of…
Call for Papers: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Call for Papers: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations is the journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations and is published by the Center for Christian-Jewish…
The Quincentennial Commemoration of the Protestant Reformation in Secularized Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) The Quincentennial Commemoration of the Protestant Reformation in Secularized Germany By Hartmut Lehmann Germany is one of the most secularized countries of Europe and in fact of the world. In…
Response to William Doino Jr. and the Film Lo vuole il Papa
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Response to William Doino Jr. and the Film Lo vuole il Papa By Susan Zuccotti, Independent Scholar In the June 2015 edition of the Contemporary Church History Quarterly, William Doino…
Papal Rescue in Wartime Rome: A New Documentary and Commentaries
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Papal Rescue in Wartime Rome: A New Documentary and Commentaries By William Doino Jr. On April 1st, a documentary was televised in Italy entitled, “Lo vuole il Papa” (The Pope Wants…