Review of Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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….
Review of Philip E. Muehlenbeck, ed., Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective
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”
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’”
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
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)…