On the Confessing Church’s June 1936 Memorandum to Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) On the Confessing Church’s June 1936 Memorandum to Hitler By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Confessing Church’s most courageous act of opposition…
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…
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…
Ferdinand Schlingensiepen and the Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer
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…
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…
A Past that Will Not Pass Away: A Contribution to the 850th Anniversary of the Brandenburg Cathedral
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) A Past that Will Not Pass Away: A Contribution to the 850th Anniversary of the Brandenburg Cathedral By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin The following article was adapted from a…
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…
A Crusade, a Holy War: Protestant Preaching in War-time, 1914.
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 4 (December 2014) A Crusade, a Holy War: Protestant Preaching in War-time, 1914. By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin This article is based on “Ein Gott, der Fahnen entrollt,” zeitzeichen: Evangelische Kommentare zu Religion…
15,000 days in the Life of a Bishop: Long-Term Project Prepares an On-Line Edition of the Diaries of Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 2 (June 2014) 15,000 days in the Life of a Bishop: Long-Term Project Prepares an On-Line Edition of the Diaries of Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich By Hubert Wolf, University of Münster [1]…
Public Lecture: “November 1938: Perspectives from the Vatican Archives”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 1 (March 2014) Public Lecture: “November 1938: Perspectives from the Vatican Archives,” The Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide, 23 October 2013. By Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
Crosses and Swastikas
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Crosses and Swastikas By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin The following article was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. It was published in Der…
Franz Stock and the “Barbed-Wire Seminary” at Le Coudray, France
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Franz Stock and the “Barbed-Wire Seminary” at Le Coudray, France* By Lauren N. Faulkner, University of Notre Dame “Abbé Franz Stock – that is no name, it is a program!”[1]…
Catholicism, Dictatorship and the World at War: The Significance of Cardinal Hinsley, 1935-1943
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Catholicism, Dictatorship and the World at War: The Significance of Cardinal Hinsley, 1935-1943 By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester This month brings the seventieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal…
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