John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto This article was originally published in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 27 no. 1 (2014), and is reprinted here with…
Memories of John Conway (1929-2017)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Memories of John Conway (1929-2017) By Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University John Conway is known to all who contribute to or read this online journal as the energetic, knowledgeable,…
Letter from the Editors (June 2017)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Letter from the Editors (June 2017) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, While the editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly are pleased to release our newest issue, we are also deeply…
Review of Hans von Dohnanyi, “Mir hat Gott keinen Panzer ums Herz gegeben”: Briefe aus Militärgefängnis und Gestapohaft 1943-1945
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…
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 in Their Correspondence
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…
Review of Gerald Hacke, Die Zeugen Jehovahs im Dritten Reich und in der DDR: Feindbild und Verfolgungspraxis
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.,…
Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Book Note: Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (London: Penguin Books, 2015), Pp. 593, ISBN: 9780713990898. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Despite its theologically-sounding title, this…
Review of Mary M. Solberg, ed. and trans., A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
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….
Review of Lucian N. Leustean, The Ecumenical Movement & the Making of the European Community
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…
Public Lecture: On the Side of the Disenfranchised and the Weak: The Office of Pastor Grüber (1938-1940)
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…
Review of Robert Beaken, The Church of England and the Home Front 1914-1918
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…
Book Note: Hartmut Ludwig, Suddenly Jews
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…
Review of Keith Clements, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Quest
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of Keith Clements, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Quest (Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 2015), 326 Pp. ISBN 978-2-8254-1656-3. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Keith Clements is…
Review of Andrew Atherstone and John Maiden, eds., Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Andrew Atherstone and John Maiden, eds., Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal, Studies in Modern British Religious History, Vol. 31…
Review of Timothy Jones, Sexual Politics in the Church of England 1857-1957
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 2 (June 2015) Review of Timothy Jones, Sexual Politics in the Church of England 1857-1957 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Pp 218. ISBN 978-0-19-965510-6. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia In the 1960s…