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….
Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933,” Past and Present 229 (Nov. 2015): 201-238. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University Though…
Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War,” German History 33, no. 1 (March 2015): 80-99. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Thomas Brodie of Jesus College,…
Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (London: Penguin Books, 2015), Pp. 593, ISBN: 9780713990898. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Despite its theologically-sounding title, this…
Conference Report: “Not Without the Old Testament”: The Importance of the Hebrew Bible for Christianity and Judaism, French Church of Friedrichstadt, Berlin, 8-10 December 2015
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Conference Report: “Not Without the Old Testament”: The Importance of the Hebrew Bible for Christianity and Judaism, French Church of Friedrichstadt, Berlin, 8-10 December 2015 By Gerhard Naber, Nordhorn, and…
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…
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…
Article Note: Ján Liguš, “Obedience or Resistance: The Legacy of Bonhoeffer”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Article Note: Ján Liguš, “Obedience or Resistance: The Legacy of Bonhoeffer,” European Journal of Theology 24:2 (2015), 173-182. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University In this article, Ján Liguš offers a…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “The Racial Yardstick: ‘Ethnotheism’ and Official Nazi Views on Religion”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “The Racial Yardstick: ‘Ethnotheism’ and Official Nazi Views on Religion,” German Studies Review 37, no. 3 (2014): 575–596. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Over the past…
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…
Conference Report: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte Meeting, 2015
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Conference Report: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte Meeting, 2015 By Robert Ericksen “‘Ein neues Klima’: Rezeptionsgeschichte des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils in Ost- und Mitteleuropa” A conference took place on December 3-4, 2015 at…
Conference Report: 8th Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Conference Report: 8th Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, July 6-9, 2015 By Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum* The experiences…
Book Note: Hartmut Ludwig, Suddenly Jews
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Book Note: Hartmut Ludwig, Suddenly Jews: The Story of Christians whom the Nazi racial laws classified as Jews, and of the Good Samaritans who came to their aid (the Bureau…