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…
Luther’s Evil Writings
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Luther’s Evil Writings The reformer was not only anti-Jewish, but also antisemitic. So he was understood in the Nazi era, too. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen,…
Review of Harry Oelke, Wolfgang Kraus, et. al., eds., Martin Luthers “Judenschriften”. Die Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Harry Oelke, Wolfgang Kraus, et. al., eds., Martin Luthers “Judenschriften”. Die Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 338 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-525-55789-1. By Christopher Probst, Washington…
Review of Stiftung Topographie des Terrors and Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, eds., “Überall Luthers Worte …” – Martin Luther im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Review of Stiftung Topographie des Terrors and Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, eds., “Überall Luthers Worte …” – Martin Luther im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, 2017). 271 Pp., ISBN 978-3-941772-33-5….
Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017
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…
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…