Film Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Film Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin, directed by Todd Komarnicki (Angel Studios, 2024) By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, Continuing & Professional Studies Introduction On the morning of April…
Review of Manfred Gailus, Gegen den Mainstream der Hitlerzeit – Der Wuppertaler Theologe Helmut Hesse (1916-1943)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Manfred Gailus, Gegen den Mainstream der Hitlerzeit – Der Wuppertaler Theologe Helmut Hesse (1916-1943) (Bremen, Wuppertal: De Noantri, 2019). 80 pp. ISBN: 978-3-943643-11-4. By Christopher Probst, Washington University…
News Note: “Campaign posters in ‘Luther country’ raise specter of anti-Semitism”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) News Note: “Campaign posters in ‘Luther country’ raise specter of anti-Semitism” By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College Last September, religion scholar and journalist Ken Chitwood asked…
Review of Horst Junginger, The Scientification of the “Jewish Question” in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Review of Horst Junginger, The Scientification of the “Jewish Question” in Nazi Germany (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017), 456pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-34107-4. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St. Louis, University College…
Book Note: “Religion” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Book Note: “Religion” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). Pp. xv + 307. ISBN: 9781474217927 (Paperback). By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Lisa…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 760-790. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St….
Review of Alon Confino, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Alon Confino, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2014), 284pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-18854-7. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in…
Review of Christopher J. Probst, Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany
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…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust: “The Holocaust Today: New Directions in Research and Teaching,” November 1-4, 2012, Northwestern University. By Lauren Faulkner, University of Notre Dame Professor Emeritus…
Review of Anders Gerdmar, Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2011 Review of Anders Gerdmar, Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann. Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 20 (Leiden, Boston:…
Review of Tanja Hetzer, “Deutsche Stunde”: Volksgemeinschaft und Antisemitismus in der politischen Theologie bei Paul Althaus
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2010 Review of Tanja Hetzer, “Deutsche Stunde”: Volksgemeinschaft und Antisemitismus in der politischen Theologie bei Paul Althaus (Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2009), 296pp. ISBN: 978-3-86520-328-1. By Christopher Probst, Howard Community College Tanja Hetzer’s in-depth study…
November 2009 Newsletter
Association of Contemporary Church Historians (Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchlicher Zeitgeschichtler) John S. Conway, Editor. University of British Columbia November 2009 — Vol. XV, no. 11 Dear Friends, In this month of anniversaries, we recall not only the twenty years since the Berlin Wall…