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Record W2800719863 · doi:10.1093/hgs/dcy017

Obituary: John Seymour Conway

2018· article· en· W2800719863 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHolocaust and Genocide Studies · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy and History of Science
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNazismPersecutionProtestantismNazi GermanyScholarshipGermanHistoryLawClassicsSociologyReligious studiesPhilosophyPolitical sciencePoliticsArchaeology

Abstract

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British-born church historian John S. Conway died at his home in Vancouver on June 24, 2017 at the age of 87. Conway was best known for his 1968 magisterial study The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933–1945, a detailed account of the history of the Catholic, Protestant, and free churches under National Socialism. In it Conway analyzed the development of Nazi state policies toward the churches and the various factors that shaped the churches’ reactions. It was one of the earliest works to confront the failures of the German churches under National Socialism, challenging the hagiography that dominated the literature at that time. Even earlier, Conway’s 1965 essay on the record of Pope Pius XII brought him into the international controversy about the Pope’s failure to speak out about the mass murder of Europe’s Jews.1 Coming in the wake of Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy, the essay exemplified the characteristics of Conway’s scholarship: stubborn realism and a nuanced (if sometimes acerbic) approach to the complexities of history. Conway rejected easy rationalizations of the churches’ complicity, but he also criticized what he viewed as unrealistic assumptions that its leaders might have stopped National Socialism had they behaved differently. He wrote at a time when many scholars emphasized the totalitarian nature of the Nazi regime, and this shaped his analysis of the realistic options for resistance. He believed that the First World War and its aftermath were crucial for understanding what happened in Germany after 1933. He was also deeply influenced by his Anglican faith, and always approached the history of the churches with an understanding of the theological complexities as well as the political and historical ones.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.792
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.119
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it