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Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis

Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis

March 15, 2019 · by Robert P. Ericksen · in Reviews, Volume 25 Number 1 (March 2019)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis (New York: Basic Books, 2018). 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-465-09786-9. Reviewed by Robert…

On the Confessing Church’s June 1936 Memorandum to Hitler

June 1, 2016 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Articles, Volume 22 Number 2 (June 2016)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 2 (June 2016) On the Confessing Church’s June 1936 Memorandum to Hitler By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Confessing Church’s most courageous act of opposition…

Review of Kirsten Busch Nielsen, Ralf K. Wüstenberg, and Jens Zimmermann, eds., Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen. Das Politische in der Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers. A Spoke in the Wheel: The Political in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Review of Kirsten Busch Nielsen, Ralf K. Wüstenberg, and Jens Zimmermann, eds., Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen. Das Politische in der Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers. A Spoke in the Wheel: The Political in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

December 1, 2015 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Reviews, Volume 21 Number 4 (December 2015)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Review of Kirsten Busch Nielsen, Ralf K. Wüstenberg, and Jens Zimmermann, eds., Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen. Das Politische in der Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers. A Spoke in the Wheel:…

Review of Mark R. Correll, Shepherds of the Empire: German Conservative Protestant Leadership 1888-1919

Review of Mark R. Correll, Shepherds of the Empire: German Conservative Protestant Leadership 1888-1919

September 1, 2015 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Reviews, Volume 21 Number 3 (September 2015)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of Mark R. Correll, Shepherds of the Empire: German Conservative Protestant Leadership 1888-1919 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014), 283pp. ISBN: 978-1-4514-7295-0 By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College Mark Correll’s Shepherds…

Review of Dean Stroud, ed., Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich

Review of Dean Stroud, ed., Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich

June 1, 2014 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Reviews, Volume 20 Number 2 (June 2014)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 2 (June 2014) Review of Dean Stroud, ed., Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2013), xii + 203p., ISBN 978-0-8028-6902-9. By Matthew D….

Review of Clifford Green and Guy Carter, eds., Interpreting Bonhoeffer

Review of Clifford Green and Guy Carter, eds., Interpreting Bonhoeffer

March 1, 2014 · by John S. Conway · in Reviews, Volume 20 Number 1 (March 2014)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 1 (March 2014) Review of Clifford Green and Guy Carter, eds., Interpreting Bonhoeffer, Historical Perspectives/Emerging Issues (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013),  Pp. xvi + 258,  ISBN 978-4514-6541-9. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The…

Review of Steven M. Schroeder, To Forget It All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954

Review of Steven M. Schroeder, To Forget It All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954

December 1, 2013 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Reviews, Volume 19 Number 4 (December 2013)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 4 (December 2013) Review of Steven M. Schroeder, To Forget It All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 237 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4426-1399-7. By Matthew D….

Conference Report: Reassessing Contemporary Church History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-27, 2013

September 1, 2013 · by Mark Edward Ruff · in News and Notes, Volume 19 Number 3 (September 2013)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 3 (September 2013) Conference Report: Reassessing Contemporary Church History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-27, 2013 By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University This three-day conference brought twenty scholars from Canada, the United States…

Review of Philip E. Muehlenbeck, ed., Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective

Review of Philip E. Muehlenbeck, ed., Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective

June 1, 2013 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Reviews, Volume 19 Number 2 (June 2013)

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,…

Article Note: Benjamin Pearson, “The Pluralization of Protestant Politics: Public Responsibility, Rearmament, and Division at the 1950s Kirchentage”

Article Note: Benjamin Pearson, “The Pluralization of Protestant Politics: Public Responsibility, Rearmament, and Division at the 1950s Kirchentage”

June 1, 2013 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in News and Notes, Volume 19 Number 2 (June 2013)

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…

Conference Paper: “Martin Niemöller in America, 1946-1947: ‘A Hero with Limitations’”

June 1, 2012 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in Articles, Volume 18 Number 2 (June 2012)

ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2012 Conference Paper: “Martin Niemöller in America, 1946-1947: ‘A Hero with Limitations’” Plenary Session: Disputed Memories of Complicity and Righteousness, 42nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, May 12-14, 2012….

Conference Report: 42nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, May 12-14, 2012

June 1, 2012 · by Matthew D. Hockenos · in News and Notes, Volume 18 Number 2 (June 2012)

ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2012 Conference Report: 42nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, May 12-14, 2012. By Matthew D. Hockenos, Skidmore College The 42nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (ASC)…

Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025)

  • Letter from the Editors (Spring 2025)
  • Thomas Großbölting in Memorium
  • Nachruf auf den Historiker Thomas Großbölting
  • “The New Testament is the most anti-Jewish book in the whole world.” Christian Antisemitism in the 20th Century
  • Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit
  • Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit
  • Film Review of Zwischen uns Gott, Directed by Rebecca Hirneise
  • Review of Andreas Pangritz, Die Schattenseite des Christentums. Theologie und Antisemitismus

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