Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Article Note: Ion Popa, “Sanctuary from the Holocaust? Roman Catholic Conversion of Jews in Bucharest, Romania, 1942,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, no 1 (Spring 2015): 39-56. By Doris L….
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Conference Report: “Religious Revivals in 19th and 20th century Germany,” German Studies Association, 2017 By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University Thirteen historians, religious studies scholars and literary specialists gathered…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Letter from the Editors (September 2017) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, The editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly are delighted to present a new issue of articles, reviews, news, and…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto This article was originally published in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 27 no. 1 (2014), and is reprinted here with…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Memories of John Conway (1929-2017) By Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University John Conway is known to all who contribute to or read this online journal as the energetic, knowledgeable,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Luther’s Evil Writings The reformer was not only anti-Jewish, but also antisemitic. So he was understood in the Nazi era, too. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Harry Oelke, Wolfgang Kraus, et. al., eds., Martin Luthers “Judenschriften”. Die Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 338 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-525-55789-1. By Christopher Probst, Washington…
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….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Benjamin W. Goossen, Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), 266 + xiv Pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-17428-0. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Workshop Report: Mennonites and the Holocaust–and Gerhard Rempel’s Unfinished Book, Dove and Swastika: Russian Mennonites under Nazi Occupation, University of Toronto, June 12, 2017 By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Letter from the Editors (June 2017) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, While the editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly are pleased to release our newest issue, we are also deeply…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) 1933 as a Protestant Experience and the “Day of Potsdam” By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Lecture at the joint meeting of the…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review Article: Confessing Church Biographies Review of Michael Heymel, Martin Niemöller: Vom Marineoffizier zum Friedenskämpfer (Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider, 2017), 321 pages, ISBN: 9783650401960. Christiane Tietz, Theologian of Resistance: The Life and…