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…
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…
Conference Report: Panels in Honour of Hartmut Lehmann at the 39th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Conference Report: Panels in Honour of Hartmut Lehmann at the 39th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association (GSA), Washington, DC, October 1–4, 2015 by Rebecca Carter-Chand, University of Toronto…
These Church Historians of Our Time: Markus Huttner, Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier, Huamin Toshiko Mackman
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) These Church Historians of Our Time: Markus Huttner, Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier, Huamin Toshiko Mackman * By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester In these days of professionalism and of stolid institutions of…
Article Note: Todd H. Weir, “The Specter of ‘Godless Jewry’: Secularism and the ‘Jewish Question’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Article Note: Todd H. Weir, “The Specter of ‘Godless Jewry’: Secularism and the ‘Jewish Question’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Central European History 46 (2014): 815-849. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University…