Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review Article: Swiss Protestant Ecumenists and the German Churches under Hitler Review of Marianne Jehle-Wildberger, Adolf Keller: Ecumenist, World Citizen, Philanthropist (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013),…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review Article: The Quest for the Historical Schweitzers By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester James Carleton Paget and Michael J. Thate (eds.), Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Belief that Drove the Third Reich (Washington, D.C: Regnery History, 2016), 386 pages, ISBN: 978-1-62157-500-9. By Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., Stonehill College…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of Hans von Dohnanyi, “Mir hat Gott keinen Panzer ums Herz gegeben”: Briefe aus Militärgefängnis und Gestapohaft 1943-1945 (Munich: Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, 2015), 351 pages, ISBN 9783421047113. By John…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of John Carter Wood, ed., Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe. Conflict, Community, and the Social Order (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 211 pages, ISBN 9783525101490. By Sarah…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Review of Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, “Möge Gott unserer Kirche helfen!” Theologiepolitik, Kirchenkampf und Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime: Die Evangelische Landeskirche Badens 1933-1945 (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2015). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Article Note: Samuel Koehne. “Religion in the Early Nazi Milieu: Towards a Greater Understanding of ‘Racist Culture,’” Journal of Contemporary History. Prepublished January 1, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0022009416669420. By Heath Spencer,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017 By Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia On this spring weekend…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism,” Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 6, 2017 By Jeremy Stephen Roethler, Texas State University This session…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: 500 Years of Reformation: Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, February 12-14, 2017 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This year’s annual conference of…
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…