Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 3 (September 2013) Review of Carsten Linden, Die Bedeutung des Beziehungsgeflechts der Osnabrücker ev.-luth. Pastoren für den Verlauf der Osnabrücker Kirchenpolitik 1907-1936 (Hamburg: Dr. Kovac Verlag, 2012), 2 Vol., 960 Pp. By Hansjörg Buss, Universität des…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Letter from the Editors: June 2013 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University College Dear friends, Once again I am delighted to announce the new issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly. This June…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Hartmut Ludwig, An der Seite der Entrechteten und Schwachen: Zur Geschichte des “Büro Pfarrer Grüber” (1938 bis 1940) und der Ev. Hilfsstelle für ehemals Rasseverfolgte nach 1945 (Berlin:…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Akten deutscher Bischöfe seit 1945, Kommission für Zeitgeschichte Ulrich Helbach (Bearbeitet), Akten deutscher Bischöfe seit 1945: Westliche Besatzungszonen, 1945 – 1947, I (Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 2012), 764 pp. Ulrich Helbach…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Philip E. Muehlenbeck, ed., Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012), xxii + 314 Pp., ISBN 978-0-8265-1853-8. By Matthew D. Hockenos,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Wilhelm Damberg, ed., Soziale Strukturen und Semantiken des Religiösen im Wandel (Essen: Klartext, 2011), 224 Pp. Originally reviewed for H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-German). By Lauren…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Book Note: Annemarie S. Kidder, ed., Ultimate Price. Testimonies of Christians Who Resisted the Third Reich (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012), 177 Pp., ISBN 9781570759550. By John S. Conway, University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Article Note: Benjamin Pearson, “The Pluralization of Protestant Politics: Public Responsibility, Rearmament, and Division at the 1950s Kirchentage” Central European History 43 (2010), 270-300. By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Conference Announcement: Reassessing Contemporary Church History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-27, 2013 By Steven Schroeder, University of the Fraser Valley Members of the editorial board of Contemporary Church…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Letter from the Editors: March 2013 Dear Friends, Once again we are delighted to be able to share with you our newest issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly. Thank you for…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Review of Christopher J. Probst, Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012), xiv + 251 Pp., ISBN 978-0-253-00098-9. By Kyle…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Review of the Internet website “Evangelischer Widerstand,” http://evangelischer-widerstand.de. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University College The interactive website “Evangelischer Widerstand” (www.evangelischer-widerstand.de) is a powerful presentation of the Protestant Christian resistance to…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Review of Sonya Grypma, China Interrupted. Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012), xvi + 305 Pp., ISBN 9781554586451. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Crosses and Swastikas By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin The following article was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. It was published in Der…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Franz Stock and the “Barbed-Wire Seminary” at Le Coudray, France* By Lauren N. Faulkner, University of Notre Dame “Abbé Franz Stock – that is no name, it is a program!”[1]…