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…
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Letter from the Editors (March 2017) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear friends, I write today to let you know that, rather than issuing a truncated March issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly, the editors have decided…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Letter from the Editors (December 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, In this Advent season, we are pleased to offer you a new issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Andrew Chandler, George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016), Pp. xii + 212, ISBN: 9780802872272. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Gerhard Besier, ed., “Intimately Associated for Many Years”: George K. A. Bell’s and Willem A. Visser’t Hooft’s Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Review of Gerald Hacke, Die Zeugen Jehovahs im Dritten Reich und in der DDR: Feindbild und Verfolgungspraxis. Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts fur Totalitarismusforschung, 41 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 457 Pp.,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36,” European History Quarterly 45, no 4 (2015): 689-712. By…
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “Ecumenical Cooperation and World Politics”. The 2016 Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History Conference, Helsinki, October 26-28, 2016 By Robert P. Ericksen On Oct. 26-28, 2016, Professors Aila Lauha and…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871-1989,” Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, 2016, San Diego, California By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University On the…
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, October 20-22, 2016 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Under the title of “Marching…
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…
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…