Historical Contextualization

Empathizing with History’s Worst Is Hard. But a Quality Education Was Never Meant to Be Easy

When I arrived at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1994, I enrolled in a class that caught my eye: “Theology and the Nazi State,” taught by Jack Forstman. Given my family’s hasty departure from the Third Reich in the late 1930s, and my own interest in theology, I was intrigued. The course turned out to be […]

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