Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Mary M. Solberg, ed. and trans., A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015). Pp. 486. ISBN 9781451464726. By John S….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Peter Itzen, Streitbare Kirche: Die Church of England vor den Herausforderungen des Wandels 1945-1990 (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2013). Pp. 437. ISBN 9783832966089. By John S. Conway, University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) Review of Lucian N. Leustean, The Ecumenical Movement & the Making of the European Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Pp. 286. ISBN 9780198714569. By John S. Conway, University of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Letter from the Editors (March 2016) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Greetings friends, As Lent will soon give way to Easter, it is our pleasure to publish once again a…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Public Lecture: On the Side of the Disenfranchised and the Weak: The Office of Pastor Grüber (1938-1940) By Hartmut Ludwig, Humboldt University, Berlin; translated by John S. Conway, University of…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Review of Manfred Gailus and Clemens Vollnhals, eds, Mit Herz und Verstand—Protestantische Frauen im Widerstand gegen die NS-Rassenpolitik (Göttingen: V&Runipress, 2013). Pp 280, with illustrations. ISBN: 9783847101734. By Victoria J….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Review of Manfred Gailus, ed., Täter und Komplizen in Theologie und Kirchen 1933-1945 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015). Pp. 260. ISBN 9783835316492. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Manfred Gailus’ newest contribution…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 1 (March 2016) Review of Robert Beaken, The Church of England and the Home Front 1914-1918 (Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2015). Pp. 272. ISBN: 9781783270514. By John S. Conway, University of British…
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…
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…
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…