An Annotated Hutterite Bibliography. Compiled by Maria H. Krisztinkovich. Edited by Peter C. Erb. 1998.
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An Annotated Hutterite Bibliography
Compiled by Maria H. Krisztinkovich Edited by Peter C. Erb 1998. ISBN-13: 978-0969876281. 312 pp. During more than three decades, Maria Krisztinkovich collected and organized references to Anabaptist-Hutterite materials. Her work as librarian at the University of British Columbia facilitated this task. Eventually her contact with professor Werner Packull led to the conversion of her massive Hutterite bibliography into a computer data base, a task overseen by professor Peter C. Erb of Wilfrid Laurier University. The resulting bibliography is a researcher's goldmine. Included in the more than 3,000 individual entries are many extremely rare items located in eastern European archives. In 1996 prof. Packull took the manuscript with him on his sabbatical leave to Europe. During this time, the eastern European entries were checked and corrected by Rev. Oliver E. Szebeni of Hungary. The usefulness of the bibliography is enhanced by English annotations, so that readers not conversant in eastern European languages can still benefit from all entries. “An Annotated Hutterite Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of the Hutterite Brethren with over 2,700 entries listing books, pamphlets, dissertations, manuscripts, films and both scholarly and newspaper articles. The entries are unnumbered but are in alphabetical order by author’s name or title for anonymous works. The volume covers not only the formal Hutterite Brethren denomination but also Habáners. These were the Hutterites left behind in their move out of Hungary and forced by the Catholic Church to become Catholics.” – GAMEO |
Anabaptist Visions for the New Millennium: A Search for Identity. Edited by Dale Schrag and James Juhnke. 2000.
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Anabaptist Visions for the New Millennium
A Search for Identity Edited by Dale Schrag and James Juhnke 2000. ISBN-13: 978-1894710008. 237 pp. “Anabaptist Visions contains papers presented at a symposium of the same title held at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas in June 2000. It includes 28 papers, all but two brief enough to read in a few minutes, from contributors both academic and churchly... The papers are grouped into the categories of Identity, Theology, Engaging the World, New Voices, Worship, Mission and Evangelism, and a Summary... While the introduction suggests that the manifestos were to reflect on assigned topics... one notices overlapping interests across the range of presentations, as well as places where individual visions clash with each other... this collection has an immediacy that, while representing a great deal of serious reflection, characterizes an interactive conversation rather than a scholarly document. Anabaptist Visions should without question be read and discussed well beyond the world of the academy. Fifty years from now when scholars are seeking to understand directions taken by Mennonite people in the United States at the turn of the century, they will need to include this book in their research.” |
Anabaptism: Neither Catholic nor Protestant, by Walter Klaassen. 3rd Edition. 2001.
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Anabaptism
Neither Catholic nor Protestant Walter Klaassen 3rd Edition. 2001. ISBN-13: 978-1894710015. 131 pp. Walter Klaassen’s classic book shows how Anabaptists combined elements of Protestantism and Catholicism into a third option that, he argues, has continuing relevance for the present. This is especially true in the areas of lay witness, peace and war, economics, and relationships with the state. “Anabaptism: Neither Catholic nor Protestant... became a classic summary of the shift away from the understanding of Anabaptism as the true or logical fulfillment of the Protestant Reformation; the lectures conceived of Anabaptism in its own terms as a tertium quid, in contrast to both Catholic Reform and Protestantism, while still recognizing its debt to both traditions.” – Jonathan Seiling in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme |
The Amish of Canada, by Orland Gingerich. 2001.
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The Amish of Canada
Orland Gingerich 2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710190. 244 pp. This book encompasses not only the Old Order Amish, but the whole of the Amish Mennonite settlements in Canada, including its more progressive counterparts. Orland Gingerich's study remains the definitive history of the Amish of Canada. Not only the old order but the whole of the Amish Mennonite settlements in Canada, including its more progressive counterpar Canada opened its doors of hospitality to a quiet peaceful people deeply comitted to the principles of mutual and community self-realization, moderation, and stewardship of the soil. The author has a broad grasp of the historical movement and an intimate knowledge of the localized settlements of the Amish people in Ontario. The Amish of Canada is the first major literary contribution on the Canadian Amish Mennonites Orland Gingerich (1920-2002) was an Ontario Mennonite minister and bishop who studied at Eastern Mennonite College and Goshen Biblical Seminary. He was the first theologically trained pastor in the Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference, and he was the last bishop to be selected by lot in 1954. “Gingerich has succeeded well in writing the story of the Amish within the context of the larger Anabaptist-Mennonite movement, while not neglecting to sketch the local histories of the sixteen Amish congregations in Ontario.” |
Andreas Ehrenpreis and Hutterite Faith and Practice, by Wes Harrison. 1997.
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Andreas Ehrenpreis and Hutterite Faith and Practice
Wes Harrison 1997. ISBN-13: 978-1926599847. 296 pp. This is a ground-breaking study of Andreas Ehrenpreis, leading 17th century bishop and "second founder" of the Hutterites. Wes Harrison's study makes it clear that Ehrenpreis' importance goes far beyond insuring survival for the Hutterites. By reiterating, restating, and rebuilding Hutterites' beliefs, core communitarianism, and patterns of authority, Ehrenpreis set the course of Hutterite history ever since. It is volume 36 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series, co-published with Herald Press. "Almost no research has been done until now on the zealous Hutterite bishop Andreas Ehrenpreis and the Hutterites in the seventeenth century. To bridge the gap between the much-studied sixteenth century and the neglected later centuries, Wes Harrison has written the first monograph on Ehrenpreis... Harrison's revised dissertation is a valuable source in research on Hutterite history. It provides good insight into a crucial period of Hutterite history in the seventeenth century. Andreas Ehrenpreis and Hutterite Faith and Practice lays the foundation for further work on Ehrenpreis' era: its social history, theology and the relationship of the Hutterites to other groups in Moravia and in the Holy Roman Empire.” |
A Mennonite Estate Family in Southern Ukraine 1904–1924, by Nicholas J. Fehderau. Edited by Anne Konrad Dyck. 2013.
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A Mennonite Estate Family in Southern Ukraine
1904–1924 Nicholas J. Fehderau. Edited by Anne Konrad Dyck 2013. ISBN 978-1-926599-31-1. 340 pp. Nicholas J. Fehderau (1904-1989), was the youngest son of a Mennonite estate family in Southern Ukraine. Nicholas, known to friends and family as “Kolya,” loved God, poetry, music and his Ukrainian homeland. A self-described “sensitive soul,” and quiet child, he would overhear and recall entire conversations. Over a period of eighteen years (1953 to 1970), he wrote his memoir, Aus der Hohe in den Tiefen (From the Heights into the Depths), by hand. Now with a new title, his memoir has been translated, condensed, and edited “In a candid fashion, A Mennonite Estate Family in Southern Ukraine, 1904-1924, tells the story of Nicholas Jakob Fehderau, a story strikingly accurate when placed alongside the factual surviving documents of the period. The youngest child, gifted with an amazing memory and a lively imagination, Fehderau recreates the world of his childhood and youth. A fundamental honesty pervades the memoir. Young Nicholas’ alert mind records the many nuances associated with estate life: prejudices, family life, the prevailing piety, the complications of agri-business, and the impact of war, revolution and anarchy.” |
Alice Snyder’s Letters from Germany. by Lucille Marr with Dora-Marie Goulet. 2009.
Alice Snyder’s Letters from Germany
Lucille Marr with Dora-Marie Goulet
2009. ISBN 9781926599021. 262 pp.
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In April 1948, Alice Snyder wrote in a letter to her mother Ida, “I could write lots more but I guess I just won't be able to write everything I see. It takes too much time.” A month earlier, twenty-nine-year-old Alice had arrived in Neustadt, Germany to join the ranks of Mennonite relief workers serving in a Europe devastated by World War II. Over a hundred letters, written between February 21, 1948 and May 17, 1950 document her experiences and impressions. Compiled by her mother Ida Snyder in a little black binder over the two years Alice served in Germany, they are reproduced in this manuscript, exactly as they were written... Indeed, with her candid observations, writing what she saw, Alice's letters are a rare historical source.
Lucille Marr with Dora-Marie Goulet
2009. ISBN 9781926599021. 262 pp.
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In April 1948, Alice Snyder wrote in a letter to her mother Ida, “I could write lots more but I guess I just won't be able to write everything I see. It takes too much time.” A month earlier, twenty-nine-year-old Alice had arrived in Neustadt, Germany to join the ranks of Mennonite relief workers serving in a Europe devastated by World War II. Over a hundred letters, written between February 21, 1948 and May 17, 1950 document her experiences and impressions. Compiled by her mother Ida Snyder in a little black binder over the two years Alice served in Germany, they are reproduced in this manuscript, exactly as they were written... Indeed, with her candid observations, writing what she saw, Alice's letters are a rare historical source.
At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg, by Leo Driedger. 2010.
At the Forks
Mennonites in Winnipeg
Leo Driedger
2010. ISBN 978-1-926599-16-8. 473 pp.
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One hundred and forty years ago, the first Mennonites in Manitoba stopped only briefly in Winnipeg to pick up supplies before heading to their rural reserves. The city was too risky for a conservative people who were unprepared for the ‘world.’ How, then, has it come to be that Winnipeg is home to the largest number of Mennonites in any single city in the world? Driedger tells us where the Mennonites came from, how they changed from a rural to urban people, and why these trends occurred at the forks of three rivers named ‘muddy waters.’? At the Forks looks at the formation and cultivation of the Mennonite community in Winnipeg, focusing on its institutions, industry, and arts.
“Driedger goes far beyond simple description of these topics. As might be expected of a veteran sociologist, his writing is often very analytical, and detailed data are provided to back his analyses. But the author’s writing style is entirely understandable to the general reader, and he consistently makes the narrative interesting, not always an easy accomplishment.” – Alan B. Anderson in Canadian Ethnic Studies
Leo Driedger (1928-2010) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, where he taught, researched and published for more than forty years. He continues to write there today as Senior Scholar. For more than twenty years, Driedger has served on boards of the Mennonite Central Committee. His teaching, research and service allowed him to travel yet he and his family have called Winnipeg their home for nearly fifty years.
Mennonites in Winnipeg
Leo Driedger
2010. ISBN 978-1-926599-16-8. 473 pp.
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One hundred and forty years ago, the first Mennonites in Manitoba stopped only briefly in Winnipeg to pick up supplies before heading to their rural reserves. The city was too risky for a conservative people who were unprepared for the ‘world.’ How, then, has it come to be that Winnipeg is home to the largest number of Mennonites in any single city in the world? Driedger tells us where the Mennonites came from, how they changed from a rural to urban people, and why these trends occurred at the forks of three rivers named ‘muddy waters.’? At the Forks looks at the formation and cultivation of the Mennonite community in Winnipeg, focusing on its institutions, industry, and arts.
“Driedger goes far beyond simple description of these topics. As might be expected of a veteran sociologist, his writing is often very analytical, and detailed data are provided to back his analyses. But the author’s writing style is entirely understandable to the general reader, and he consistently makes the narrative interesting, not always an easy accomplishment.” – Alan B. Anderson in Canadian Ethnic Studies
Leo Driedger (1928-2010) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, where he taught, researched and published for more than forty years. He continues to write there today as Senior Scholar. For more than twenty years, Driedger has served on boards of the Mennonite Central Committee. His teaching, research and service allowed him to travel yet he and his family have called Winnipeg their home for nearly fifty years.
Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending: Anabaptist mission in the sixteenth-century context, by Colin Godwin. 2012.
Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending
Anabaptist mission in the sixteenth-century context
Colin Godwin
2012. ISBN 978-1-926599-25-0. 422 pp.
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Anabaptist leaders and authors Hans Hut, Conrad Grebel, Pilgram Marpeck, Menno Simons, Peter Riedemann, Balthasar Hubmaier, Melchior Hoffmann and even David Joris describe mission as a key component of belief and practice. However, despite detailed research, there has been no new broad conceptualization of Anabaptist mission since the post-WW II era which has left current scholars largely dependent on research done decades ago. In Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending, Colin Godwin re-evaluates Anabaptist mission in its historical and theological context. Framed by the missionary intent and practice of the Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Godwin argues for a distinct Anabaptist missionary experience.
“Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending is an exploration of the missionary practices and beliefs of Anabaptist founders with the aim of stirring contemporary Anabaptists to a historically informed mission. Author Colin Godwin carefully narrates the social and religious climate of the sixteenth century in which the Anabaptist movement was birthed, wades through primary resources, and offers contemporary application and reflection for our crumbling Christendom context.”
– Chris Lenshyn, in Anabaptist Witness
Colin Godwin is the president of Carey Theological Seminary. He holds a B.A. in History and French from the University of Guelph, an M.A. (Theology) from the University of St. Michael’s College (Toronto), an M.Div. from McMaster University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales.
Anabaptist mission in the sixteenth-century context
Colin Godwin
2012. ISBN 978-1-926599-25-0. 422 pp.
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Anabaptist leaders and authors Hans Hut, Conrad Grebel, Pilgram Marpeck, Menno Simons, Peter Riedemann, Balthasar Hubmaier, Melchior Hoffmann and even David Joris describe mission as a key component of belief and practice. However, despite detailed research, there has been no new broad conceptualization of Anabaptist mission since the post-WW II era which has left current scholars largely dependent on research done decades ago. In Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending, Colin Godwin re-evaluates Anabaptist mission in its historical and theological context. Framed by the missionary intent and practice of the Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Godwin argues for a distinct Anabaptist missionary experience.
“Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending is an exploration of the missionary practices and beliefs of Anabaptist founders with the aim of stirring contemporary Anabaptists to a historically informed mission. Author Colin Godwin carefully narrates the social and religious climate of the sixteenth century in which the Anabaptist movement was birthed, wades through primary resources, and offers contemporary application and reflection for our crumbling Christendom context.”
– Chris Lenshyn, in Anabaptist Witness
Colin Godwin is the president of Carey Theological Seminary. He holds a B.A. in History and French from the University of Guelph, an M.A. (Theology) from the University of St. Michael’s College (Toronto), an M.Div. from McMaster University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales.
Between Worlds: Reflections of a Soviet-born Canadian Mennonite, by Harry Loewen. 2006.
Between Worlds
Reflections of a Soviet-born Canadian Mennonite
Harry Loewen
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710633. 358 pp.
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“...Harry and my youth were very different, yet we share one great good: the time our births spared us both from direct participation in war. If Harry had been born two years earlier than he was he would undoubtedly have been forced into the German Army during the last desperate years of the war; if I had been born eight or nine years earlier, Canada would have expected me to help invade Normandy. In other words, we would have been expected, or forced, to try and kill each other. As it was, we were spared such sad, human violence; we could come to live in the same peaceful Canadian communities, and Harry could become, among innumerable other activities in a marvelous and honorable Christian life, an exacting, intellectual, much-loved professor and spiritual guide...”
– Rudy Wiebe, from the Foreword
“Harry Loewen's dramatic memoir evokes the ebullience, energy, and elegance of his life. A Mennonite intellectual blessed with a liberal sensibility and a common touch, Loewen eloquently conjures up a compelling series of intimate and epic events, the tumultuous sequence of blessings and horrors woven into his journey. Despite his growing up in Russian and German dictatorships, Loewen from the start approached life with an irrepressible romanticism and a love of books which brought him into the scholarly worlds he came to occupy as a Canadian academic.”
– Paul Tiessen, Professor of English, Wilfrid Laurier University
Reflections of a Soviet-born Canadian Mennonite
Harry Loewen
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710633. 358 pp.
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“...Harry and my youth were very different, yet we share one great good: the time our births spared us both from direct participation in war. If Harry had been born two years earlier than he was he would undoubtedly have been forced into the German Army during the last desperate years of the war; if I had been born eight or nine years earlier, Canada would have expected me to help invade Normandy. In other words, we would have been expected, or forced, to try and kill each other. As it was, we were spared such sad, human violence; we could come to live in the same peaceful Canadian communities, and Harry could become, among innumerable other activities in a marvelous and honorable Christian life, an exacting, intellectual, much-loved professor and spiritual guide...”
– Rudy Wiebe, from the Foreword
“Harry Loewen's dramatic memoir evokes the ebullience, energy, and elegance of his life. A Mennonite intellectual blessed with a liberal sensibility and a common touch, Loewen eloquently conjures up a compelling series of intimate and epic events, the tumultuous sequence of blessings and horrors woven into his journey. Despite his growing up in Russian and German dictatorships, Loewen from the start approached life with an irrepressible romanticism and a love of books which brought him into the scholarly worlds he came to occupy as a Canadian academic.”
– Paul Tiessen, Professor of English, Wilfrid Laurier University
Caspar Schwenckfeld: Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs, Edited by H.H. Drake Williams II. 2006.
Caspar Schwenckfeld
Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs
Edited by H.H. Drake Williams II
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710640. 200 pp.
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Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig was born in 1489 into a noble family in Silesia. He became an early convert to evangelical reform, initially a follower and supporter of Martin Luther's reforms. By 1526, Schwenckfeld's spiritualist understanding of the Lord's Supper provoked vehement rejection from Luther, a breach which would never be healed. By 1529, Schwenckfeld had left his homeland and remained a religious refugee for the rest of his life. He remained a stubbornly individual thinker and biblical exegete, and a prolific writer of letters and treatises. Caspar Schwenckfeld has been described as a ‘spiritualist’ because of his conviction that saving faith entails the spiritual transformation of believers. However, he retained an intense interest in Scripture and the creedal traditions of the Church, which he believed confirmed his convictions.
The representative doctrinal writings translated in this volume demonstrate how Caspar Schwenckfeld appropriated and interpreted the apostolic creedal tradition, and also how he read and interpreted Scripture. The earliest of the eight doctrinal writings translated here dates from 1529, the year of Schwenckfeld's exile from Silesia; the latest dates from 1561, the year of his death. They thus provide a broad chronological representation of Schwenckfeld's early and mature thought.
Rev. Dr. Drake Williams serves as Associate Professor of New Testament at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven, Belgium.
Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs
Edited by H.H. Drake Williams II
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710640. 200 pp.
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Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig was born in 1489 into a noble family in Silesia. He became an early convert to evangelical reform, initially a follower and supporter of Martin Luther's reforms. By 1526, Schwenckfeld's spiritualist understanding of the Lord's Supper provoked vehement rejection from Luther, a breach which would never be healed. By 1529, Schwenckfeld had left his homeland and remained a religious refugee for the rest of his life. He remained a stubbornly individual thinker and biblical exegete, and a prolific writer of letters and treatises. Caspar Schwenckfeld has been described as a ‘spiritualist’ because of his conviction that saving faith entails the spiritual transformation of believers. However, he retained an intense interest in Scripture and the creedal traditions of the Church, which he believed confirmed his convictions.
The representative doctrinal writings translated in this volume demonstrate how Caspar Schwenckfeld appropriated and interpreted the apostolic creedal tradition, and also how he read and interpreted Scripture. The earliest of the eight doctrinal writings translated here dates from 1529, the year of Schwenckfeld's exile from Silesia; the latest dates from 1561, the year of his death. They thus provide a broad chronological representation of Schwenckfeld's early and mature thought.
Rev. Dr. Drake Williams serves as Associate Professor of New Testament at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven, Belgium.
Cities of Refuge: Stories from Anabaptist-Mennonite History and Life, by Harry Loewen. 2010.
Cities of Refuge
Stories from Anabaptist-Mennonite History
and Life
Harry Loewen
2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-926599-18-2. 342 pp.
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Spanning 500 years of Anabaptist migration from 16th century Europe to modern day Canada, Loewen's stories centre on the Mennonite struggle to find a sense of home in the world but not of the world. Early Mennonites, on a quest for permanence and security away from home, sought ‘cities of refuge,’ places where tolerant rulers would allow them to live according to their faith, values and tradition. The enduring faith of the Mennonites lies at the heart of these stories.
“With Cities of Refuge, his second collection of ‘historical tales’ Harry Loewen underscores that historical understanding is not the sole domain of the academically inclined, but also belongs to the general public.”
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Harry Loewen was the founding Chair of Mennonite Studies at University of Winnipeg. During his tenure overseeing the chair, he also founded The Journal of Mennonite Studies (1983) which continues the vibrant dialogue regarding issues related to Mennonite history, culture, and literature
Stories from Anabaptist-Mennonite History
and Life
Harry Loewen
2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-926599-18-2. 342 pp.
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Spanning 500 years of Anabaptist migration from 16th century Europe to modern day Canada, Loewen's stories centre on the Mennonite struggle to find a sense of home in the world but not of the world. Early Mennonites, on a quest for permanence and security away from home, sought ‘cities of refuge,’ places where tolerant rulers would allow them to live according to their faith, values and tradition. The enduring faith of the Mennonites lies at the heart of these stories.
“With Cities of Refuge, his second collection of ‘historical tales’ Harry Loewen underscores that historical understanding is not the sole domain of the academically inclined, but also belongs to the general public.”
– Rich Preheim,
in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Harry Loewen was the founding Chair of Mennonite Studies at University of Winnipeg. During his tenure overseeing the chair, he also founded The Journal of Mennonite Studies (1983) which continues the vibrant dialogue regarding issues related to Mennonite history, culture, and literature
Consider the Threshing Stone: Writings of Jacob J. Rempel, A Mennonite in Russia. Edited by David J. Rempel Smucker. Translated by David J. Rempel Smucker, and Eleanore (Rempel) Woollard. 2009.
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Creed and Conscience: Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer, Edited by Jeremy Bergen, Paul Doerksen, and Karl Koop. 2007.
Creed and Conscience
Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer
Edited by Jeremy Bergen, Paul Doerksen & Karl Koop
2007. ISBN 978-1-894710-80-0. 301 pp.
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The vision of the editors of Creed and Conscience: Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer was to publish a collection of essays that would engage and advance Reimer’s theological agenda and interests. To that end, we invited scholars from various countries, institutions, and disciplines, some whose voices and careers are already well established, while making sure to include others who might be described as emerging voices. The title of this book signals Jim’s commitment to the catholic tradition embodied in the creeds, but appropriated in an Anabaptist and evangelical mode of social and personal commitment and transformation. In the tradition of radical reform, the intersection of creed and conscience may well lead to dissent and the occupation of a minority ecclesial/ political position, both within the church catholic and in relation to the wider civil community.
“This collection of essays honors A. James Reimer, one of the most visible voices of the last quarter century in the debate about the character of Mennonite theology.”
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“For those who are unfamiliar with Reimer’s ideas, this book provides a helpful introduction to his multiplicity of interests, and its themes show the enormous contribution that he has made to Christian theology from the perspective of his own Mennonite tradition. For those who know his writings, the book is a further exploration and expansion of his theological and ethical thought.”
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Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer
Edited by Jeremy Bergen, Paul Doerksen & Karl Koop
2007. ISBN 978-1-894710-80-0. 301 pp.
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The vision of the editors of Creed and Conscience: Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer was to publish a collection of essays that would engage and advance Reimer’s theological agenda and interests. To that end, we invited scholars from various countries, institutions, and disciplines, some whose voices and careers are already well established, while making sure to include others who might be described as emerging voices. The title of this book signals Jim’s commitment to the catholic tradition embodied in the creeds, but appropriated in an Anabaptist and evangelical mode of social and personal commitment and transformation. In the tradition of radical reform, the intersection of creed and conscience may well lead to dissent and the occupation of a minority ecclesial/ political position, both within the church catholic and in relation to the wider civil community.
“This collection of essays honors A. James Reimer, one of the most visible voices of the last quarter century in the debate about the character of Mennonite theology.”
– Journal of Mennonite Studies
“For those who are unfamiliar with Reimer’s ideas, this book provides a helpful introduction to his multiplicity of interests, and its themes show the enormous contribution that he has made to Christian theology from the perspective of his own Mennonite tradition. For those who know his writings, the book is a further exploration and expansion of his theological and ethical thought.”
– Church History and Religious Culture
The Danzig Mennonite Church: Its Origins and History from 1569-1919, by Hermann Gottlieb Mannhardt. Translated by Victor G. Doerksen. Edited by Mark Jantzen and John Thiesen. 2007.
The Danzig Mennonite Church
Its Origin and History from 1569-1919
by Hermann Gottfried Mannhardt (Author), Mark Jantzen (Editor), John D. Thiesen (Editor), and Victor G. Doerksen (Translator)
2007. ISBN: 978-1889239040. 322 pp.
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This volume was originally published in 1919 in Germany for two reasons. One was the desire to reflect on three hundred fifty years of congregational history, going all the way back to the initial leadership provided by Dirk Philips, one of Menno Simons' most important co-workers. Celebrating the centennial of the congregation's church building, which stands to this day in Gdańsk, Poland, was the second reason. The author, Hermann Gottlieb Mannhardt, served the congregation as pastor from 1878 to 1927 and was an important leader of the German Mennonite church. The wide-ranging congregational history he wrote places the Mennonite community of Danzig/Gdansk in its broader context as a religious minority that faced persistent discrimination in early modern and modern Germany and as a vibrant urban congregation in the midst of a large rural Mennonite community. Mannhardt's account is important to Mennonite history for bridging the gap from the Anabaptists of the sixteenth century to the larger and better-researched Mennonite communities of Russia founded in the late 1700s by the Mennonites of the Vistula Delta region. This volume also reminds contemporary urban Mennonites that some Mennonites have always lived in cities.
Special features of this translation include an epilogue by Pastor Tomasz Ropiejko, lead pastor of the Pentecostal congregation that has used the former Mennonite church building in Gdańsk since the 1950s. His account updates the history of the building and relates the struggles the congregation faced to reclaim this building for worship. Original maps make the streets and villages of Mannhardt's account easy to locate. Editorial annotations to the original text explain passages that might otherwise remain obscure and highlight as well the places where Mannhardt's nineteenth-century perspectives shaped his interpretations.
Its Origin and History from 1569-1919
by Hermann Gottfried Mannhardt (Author), Mark Jantzen (Editor), John D. Thiesen (Editor), and Victor G. Doerksen (Translator)
2007. ISBN: 978-1889239040. 322 pp.
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This volume was originally published in 1919 in Germany for two reasons. One was the desire to reflect on three hundred fifty years of congregational history, going all the way back to the initial leadership provided by Dirk Philips, one of Menno Simons' most important co-workers. Celebrating the centennial of the congregation's church building, which stands to this day in Gdańsk, Poland, was the second reason. The author, Hermann Gottlieb Mannhardt, served the congregation as pastor from 1878 to 1927 and was an important leader of the German Mennonite church. The wide-ranging congregational history he wrote places the Mennonite community of Danzig/Gdansk in its broader context as a religious minority that faced persistent discrimination in early modern and modern Germany and as a vibrant urban congregation in the midst of a large rural Mennonite community. Mannhardt's account is important to Mennonite history for bridging the gap from the Anabaptists of the sixteenth century to the larger and better-researched Mennonite communities of Russia founded in the late 1700s by the Mennonites of the Vistula Delta region. This volume also reminds contemporary urban Mennonites that some Mennonites have always lived in cities.
Special features of this translation include an epilogue by Pastor Tomasz Ropiejko, lead pastor of the Pentecostal congregation that has used the former Mennonite church building in Gdańsk since the 1950s. His account updates the history of the building and relates the struggles the congregation faced to reclaim this building for worship. Original maps make the streets and villages of Mannhardt's account easy to locate. Editorial annotations to the original text explain passages that might otherwise remain obscure and highlight as well the places where Mannhardt's nineteenth-century perspectives shaped his interpretations.
Dirk Philips: Friend and Colleague of Menno Simons, by Jacobus ten Doornkaat Koolman. Trans. William H. Keeney. Ed. C. Arnold Snyder. 1998.
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Encountering the Eternal One : A Guide for Mennonite Churches. Gerke van Hiele, Marion Bruggen, Ina ter Kuile, and Frans Misse. 2006.
Encountering the Eternal One
A Guide for Mennonite Churches
Gerke van Hiele, Marion Bruggen, Ina ter Kuile, and Frans Misset
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710756. 120 pages.
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This book is a guide to faith exploration. Written from a Mennonite perspective, originally for churches in the Netherlands where it has been widely used, it is presented here in English translation for the first time. Although the book can be read by interested individuals, it is designed especially for group exploration and study.
“The book is a valuable and highly accessible snapshot of the life of one of the oldest Anabaptist groups in the world.” – Mennonite Quarterly Review
“It is common for works of Mennonite scholarship and church materials to be translated from English into Dutch. This work represents the opposite. Encountering the Eternal One is a translation of Aangeraakt door de Eeuwige, published in the Netherlands in 2001, and is offered as a contribution from the Mennonite churches in the Netherlands to the English-speaking global Mennonite fellowship. The purpose of the book for Dutch readers is well articulated and evidently appropriate for that context. Written by four authors, it is a "guide to faith exploration" for individuals and groups. Material in the book is expressly presented in a manner so as to avoid conversation-ending pronouncements and propositional conclusions. Rather, the purpose of the book is to ‘enable deep discussions’ for Mennonites (and other Christians) in the Netherlands, whom the authors broadly characterize as seekers and searchers.”
– Andrew Brubacher Kaethler, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
A Guide for Mennonite Churches
Gerke van Hiele, Marion Bruggen, Ina ter Kuile, and Frans Misset
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710756. 120 pages.
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This book is a guide to faith exploration. Written from a Mennonite perspective, originally for churches in the Netherlands where it has been widely used, it is presented here in English translation for the first time. Although the book can be read by interested individuals, it is designed especially for group exploration and study.
“The book is a valuable and highly accessible snapshot of the life of one of the oldest Anabaptist groups in the world.” – Mennonite Quarterly Review
“It is common for works of Mennonite scholarship and church materials to be translated from English into Dutch. This work represents the opposite. Encountering the Eternal One is a translation of Aangeraakt door de Eeuwige, published in the Netherlands in 2001, and is offered as a contribution from the Mennonite churches in the Netherlands to the English-speaking global Mennonite fellowship. The purpose of the book for Dutch readers is well articulated and evidently appropriate for that context. Written by four authors, it is a "guide to faith exploration" for individuals and groups. Material in the book is expressly presented in a manner so as to avoid conversation-ending pronouncements and propositional conclusions. Rather, the purpose of the book is to ‘enable deep discussions’ for Mennonites (and other Christians) in the Netherlands, whom the authors broadly characterize as seekers and searchers.”
– Andrew Brubacher Kaethler, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Elements of Faithful Writing, by Jean Janzen. 2004.
Elements of Faithful Writing
by Jean Janzen
2004. 49 pp. ISBN: 978-1889239033
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Noted Mennonite poet Jean Janzen reflects on the writing of poetry and literature and the role of authors from a Christian perspective, using guiding metaphors of Mud, Water, Fire, Air, and Text. The result is an evocative tapestry of images, textures, words, and sounds, woven from elements both historical and contemporary. Originally delivered as the Menno Simons lectures at Bethel College in November 2003.
"In Elements of Faithful Writing, Janzen seems most at home in the 'mud' - the combination of earth and water that makes the artist’s clay. This is only appropriate for a poet whose most beloved subjects are the body and place. She spends less time on fire and air, returning to earth and a palpable image of text as stone in her final chapter. Here she alludes to a fascination with theology and catechism that has visited her most recent poetic work." - Ann Hostetler in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
by Jean Janzen
2004. 49 pp. ISBN: 978-1889239033
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Noted Mennonite poet Jean Janzen reflects on the writing of poetry and literature and the role of authors from a Christian perspective, using guiding metaphors of Mud, Water, Fire, Air, and Text. The result is an evocative tapestry of images, textures, words, and sounds, woven from elements both historical and contemporary. Originally delivered as the Menno Simons lectures at Bethel College in November 2003.
"In Elements of Faithful Writing, Janzen seems most at home in the 'mud' - the combination of earth and water that makes the artist’s clay. This is only appropriate for a poet whose most beloved subjects are the body and place. She spends less time on fire and air, returning to earth and a palpable image of text as stone in her final chapter. Here she alludes to a fascination with theology and catechism that has visited her most recent poetic work." - Ann Hostetler in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
First Nations and First Settlers in the Fraser Valley (1890-1960), Edited by Harvey Neufeldt, Ruth Derksen Siemens, and Robert Martens. 2004.
First Nations and First Settlers in the Fraser Valley (1890-1960)
Edited by Harvey Neufeldt, Ruth Derksen Siemens, and Robert Martens
2004. ISBN 978-1894710541. 287 pp.
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“Harvey Neufeldt, Ruth Derksen and Robert Martens have gathered a collection of essays, originally presented at the First Nations First Settlers Conference at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on June 5-7, 2003. The essays collected here are a mix of academic papers and personal reflections on the history of the Fraser Valley.”
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The Fraser Valley is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse parts of Canada. The central Fraser Valley, including the south shore of the Fraser River between Chilliwack and Abbotsford, as well as the Mission District along the Fraser's north shore, has attracted various groups of settlers and immigrants throughout its history. As the conference from which the present volume is derived demonstrateed, this diversity has been an integral part of the valley's history. The included essays show that the First Nations settlements were joined at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century by settlers from Asia and Europe, all of whom contributed significantly to the Valley's development.
The majority of the papers included in this volume were presented at First Nations and First Settlers in the Fraser Valley (1890-1960), a conference jointly sponsored by the Yarrow Research Committee and University College of the Fraser Valley on June 5-7, 2003.
Edited by Harvey Neufeldt, Ruth Derksen Siemens, and Robert Martens
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“Harvey Neufeldt, Ruth Derksen and Robert Martens have gathered a collection of essays, originally presented at the First Nations First Settlers Conference at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on June 5-7, 2003. The essays collected here are a mix of academic papers and personal reflections on the history of the Fraser Valley.”
– Brian Froese,
in the Journal of Mennonite Studies
The Fraser Valley is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse parts of Canada. The central Fraser Valley, including the south shore of the Fraser River between Chilliwack and Abbotsford, as well as the Mission District along the Fraser's north shore, has attracted various groups of settlers and immigrants throughout its history. As the conference from which the present volume is derived demonstrateed, this diversity has been an integral part of the valley's history. The included essays show that the First Nations settlements were joined at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century by settlers from Asia and Europe, all of whom contributed significantly to the Valley's development.
The majority of the papers included in this volume were presented at First Nations and First Settlers in the Fraser Valley (1890-1960), a conference jointly sponsored by the Yarrow Research Committee and University College of the Fraser Valley on June 5-7, 2003.
The Golden Years of the Hutterites, rev. ed. By Leonard Gross. 1998.
The Golden Years of the Hutterites
Leonard Gross
Revised Edition. 1998. ISBN 0-9683462-3-5. 280 pp.
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This book presents a wealth of new material on the second generation of the Hutterites (1565-1578). The author has pieced together many previously unknown historical details gathered from unpublished sources in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Rumania, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States.
“This volume gives a full and comprehensive account of the Hutterite Movement during the second generation of its existence.… Gross’s conversancy with the sources, both primary and secondary, is impressive.”
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“The Golden Years of the Hutterites… covers the years 1565-78 in masterful fashion. It is written the way history ought to be written.”
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“… a welcome contribution to the Anabaptist story of the 16th century.”
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Leonard Gross, consulting archivist at the Archives of the Mennonite Church, served as executive secretary of the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church and director of its archives and historical research program during 1970-1990. He studied as a Fullbright Scholar at the University of Basel, where he completed doctoral studies in church history, general history, and New Testament.
Leonard Gross
Revised Edition. 1998. ISBN 0-9683462-3-5. 280 pp.
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This book presents a wealth of new material on the second generation of the Hutterites (1565-1578). The author has pieced together many previously unknown historical details gathered from unpublished sources in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Rumania, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States.
“This volume gives a full and comprehensive account of the Hutterite Movement during the second generation of its existence.… Gross’s conversancy with the sources, both primary and secondary, is impressive.”
– Hans J. Hillerbrand,
in Church History (1985)
“The Golden Years of the Hutterites… covers the years 1565-78 in masterful fashion. It is written the way history ought to be written.”
– Walter A. Elwell,
in Christianity Today (1981)
“… a welcome contribution to the Anabaptist story of the 16th century.”
– Walter Klaassen,
in the Mennonite Reporter (1981)
Leonard Gross, consulting archivist at the Archives of the Mennonite Church, served as executive secretary of the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church and director of its archives and historical research program during 1970-1990. He studied as a Fullbright Scholar at the University of Basel, where he completed doctoral studies in church history, general history, and New Testament.
Healing the Wounds: One Family's Journey Among the Northern Cheyenne, by Esther and Malcolm Wenger, poetry by Ann Wenger. 2001.
Healing the Wounds
One Family’s Journey Among the Northern Cheyenne
Esther and Malcolm Wenger Poetry by Ann Wenger
2001. ISBN-13: 978-1894710091. 218 pp.
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What happens when two newly-wed Mennonite twenty-year-olds are sent as missionaries to the Northern Cheyenne people in Montana? When Malcolm and Esther Wenger arrived in Busby, Montana in 1944, they encountered an "utterly alien" world of beads, braids, feathers and hunters, just a few days' journey from home. The Cheyenne they met were a people whose great grandparents, 68 years earlier, had defeated George A. Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Only in 1884, after fierce resistance, had the U.S. Government successfully forced the surviving Cheyennes to settle on this reservation. What did the Cheyenne people make of these Mennonites, who would learn to speak their language and tell them of a Savior who had come to earth for the Cheyennes too? This is the story of the Wengers, of the Cheyennes who became their brothers and sisters in Christ, and of those who chose other paths. It is also the story of the five Wenger children, especially of Ann, the daughter who more than anyone else in the family absorbed Cheyenne ways, and felt the pain of the Cheyenne people. She, like the Cheyenne people as a whole, suffered serious wounds. And she, like many Cheyennes today, has overcome the wounds of a painful past and begun to heal. Her poetry and her mother and father's prose tell the stories.
Malcom and Esther Wenger were missionaries who lived on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana from 16 March 1944 to 17 August 1966.
One Family’s Journey Among the Northern Cheyenne
Esther and Malcolm Wenger Poetry by Ann Wenger
2001. ISBN-13: 978-1894710091. 218 pp.
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What happens when two newly-wed Mennonite twenty-year-olds are sent as missionaries to the Northern Cheyenne people in Montana? When Malcolm and Esther Wenger arrived in Busby, Montana in 1944, they encountered an "utterly alien" world of beads, braids, feathers and hunters, just a few days' journey from home. The Cheyenne they met were a people whose great grandparents, 68 years earlier, had defeated George A. Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Only in 1884, after fierce resistance, had the U.S. Government successfully forced the surviving Cheyennes to settle on this reservation. What did the Cheyenne people make of these Mennonites, who would learn to speak their language and tell them of a Savior who had come to earth for the Cheyennes too? This is the story of the Wengers, of the Cheyennes who became their brothers and sisters in Christ, and of those who chose other paths. It is also the story of the five Wenger children, especially of Ann, the daughter who more than anyone else in the family absorbed Cheyenne ways, and felt the pain of the Cheyenne people. She, like the Cheyenne people as a whole, suffered serious wounds. And she, like many Cheyennes today, has overcome the wounds of a painful past and begun to heal. Her poetry and her mother and father's prose tell the stories.
Malcom and Esther Wenger were missionaries who lived on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana from 16 March 1944 to 17 August 1966.
“Just as in the Time of the Apostles”: Uses of History in the Radical Reformation, by Geoffrey Dipple. 2005.
“Just as in the Time of the Apostles”
Uses of History in the Radical Reformation
Geoffrey Dipple
2005. ISBN-13: 978-1926599946. 200 pp.
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“Church history was an apple of discord in the Reformation era and the inter-group debates were far less simplistic than we have been led to believe. Working on a very broad canvas, Geoffrey Dipple explores the historical outlook of the Reformation era, with particular stress on the Anabaptists and Spiritualists of the radical Reformation. Dipple’s book, the product of a generation of radical Reformation historiography, adds a new depth to our understanding of the historiography of the Reformation.”
– James M.Stayer, Queen’s University
“This is a useful work, which sets out to revise Franklin H. Littel’s thesis about the nature of the Anabaptist movement and the Radical reformers’ views of history of the Church. According to Littell’s fifty-year-old thesis, the primitivism of the Reformation reached its most extreme form in the Radical Reformation especially among what he calls the ‘Anabaptists proper’. Littell also assumed an intrinsic connexion between primitivism and a separatist ecclesiology. The author of the present work sets out to show that radical visions of history were not static but that they developed as reforming agendas developed and that the apostolic model was no more the sole model of the Church for the Anabaptists than it was for any other reformers, magisterial or not.”
– Irena Backus,
in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Geoffrey Dipple is a Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty, at the University of Alberta.
Uses of History in the Radical Reformation
Geoffrey Dipple
2005. ISBN-13: 978-1926599946. 200 pp.
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“Church history was an apple of discord in the Reformation era and the inter-group debates were far less simplistic than we have been led to believe. Working on a very broad canvas, Geoffrey Dipple explores the historical outlook of the Reformation era, with particular stress on the Anabaptists and Spiritualists of the radical Reformation. Dipple’s book, the product of a generation of radical Reformation historiography, adds a new depth to our understanding of the historiography of the Reformation.”
– James M.Stayer, Queen’s University
“This is a useful work, which sets out to revise Franklin H. Littel’s thesis about the nature of the Anabaptist movement and the Radical reformers’ views of history of the Church. According to Littell’s fifty-year-old thesis, the primitivism of the Reformation reached its most extreme form in the Radical Reformation especially among what he calls the ‘Anabaptists proper’. Littell also assumed an intrinsic connexion between primitivism and a separatist ecclesiology. The author of the present work sets out to show that radical visions of history were not static but that they developed as reforming agendas developed and that the apostolic model was no more the sole model of the Church for the Anabaptists than it was for any other reformers, magisterial or not.”
– Irena Backus,
in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Geoffrey Dipple is a Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty, at the University of Alberta.
The Limits of Perfection: A Conversation with J. Lawrence Burkholder. 2nd Ed., with a new epilogue by J. Lawrence Burkholder, Edited by Rodney Sawatsky and Scott Holland. 1996.
The Limits of Perfection
A Conversation with J. Lawrence Burkholder
Edited by Rodney Sawatsky and Scott Holland
2nd Ed. 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0969876229. 166 pp.
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“During the course of his long career, J. Lawrence Burkholder served the church in many different roles: pastor, relief worker, professor, college administrator, philosopher, theologian and church statesman. As a young man, Burkholder attended the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, before accepting a pastorate in a small Mennonite church in northern New York. In 1947 he embarked on a two-year term of service with the United Nations as a pilot flying relief supplies into China after World War II. The experience in China was formative. Burkholder returned to graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary haunted by the memories of painful choices he and other relief workers faced as they tried to distribute limited supplies equitably in a context of overwhelming human need. Those memories were formative not only for his dissertation – “The Problem of Social Responsibility from the Perspective of the Mennonite Church” - but also for much of his later writings on social and political ethics. …Not until 1989, three decades after its completion, was Burkholder's dissertation published. The Limits of Perfection, a collection of essays on the significance of Burkholder's thought, appeared four years later.”
– Karl N. Stutzman, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
A Conversation with J. Lawrence Burkholder
Edited by Rodney Sawatsky and Scott Holland
2nd Ed. 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0969876229. 166 pp.
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“During the course of his long career, J. Lawrence Burkholder served the church in many different roles: pastor, relief worker, professor, college administrator, philosopher, theologian and church statesman. As a young man, Burkholder attended the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, before accepting a pastorate in a small Mennonite church in northern New York. In 1947 he embarked on a two-year term of service with the United Nations as a pilot flying relief supplies into China after World War II. The experience in China was formative. Burkholder returned to graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary haunted by the memories of painful choices he and other relief workers faced as they tried to distribute limited supplies equitably in a context of overwhelming human need. Those memories were formative not only for his dissertation – “The Problem of Social Responsibility from the Perspective of the Mennonite Church” - but also for much of his later writings on social and political ethics. …Not until 1989, three decades after its completion, was Burkholder's dissertation published. The Limits of Perfection, a collection of essays on the significance of Burkholder's thought, appeared four years later.”
– Karl N. Stutzman, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Menno Simons and the New Jerusalem, by Helmut Isaak. 2006.
Menno Simons and the New Jerusalem
Helmut Isaak
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710695. 159 pp.
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“Much has been written about Menno Simons over the last century, and there has been major disagreement among scholars as they interpreted his life and writings. How should this dour Frisian priest and reformer be understood? What was at the heart of his concern in his voluminous writings? For all its brevity, this work seeks to provide an overall vision of that which occupied Menno Simons from the time of his conversion until his death. Isaak performs this task, not with detailed refutation of the scholars who preceded him, but rather by an extraordinarily careful attention to the writings of Menno Simons. He has written what in the book is called a spiritual biography of Menno Simons. With this book, Helmut Isaak has moved the work of recovering Menno Simons ahead, in considerable measure. Anyone working on Menno from now on will need to engage this work.”
— Walter Klaassen, Professor Emeritus, Conrad Grebel University College, from the Preface
Helmut Isaak
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710695. 159 pp.
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“Much has been written about Menno Simons over the last century, and there has been major disagreement among scholars as they interpreted his life and writings. How should this dour Frisian priest and reformer be understood? What was at the heart of his concern in his voluminous writings? For all its brevity, this work seeks to provide an overall vision of that which occupied Menno Simons from the time of his conversion until his death. Isaak performs this task, not with detailed refutation of the scholars who preceded him, but rather by an extraordinarily careful attention to the writings of Menno Simons. He has written what in the book is called a spiritual biography of Menno Simons. With this book, Helmut Isaak has moved the work of recovering Menno Simons ahead, in considerable measure. Anyone working on Menno from now on will need to engage this work.”
— Walter Klaassen, Professor Emeritus, Conrad Grebel University College, from the Preface
Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches of New York City, by Richard MacMaster. 2006.
Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches of New York City
Richard MacMaster
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710701. 382 pp.
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Mennonites have been present in New York City since colonial times, more recently establishing churches as part of mission outreaches. This book provides an historical account of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ presence in New York City. An excellent introduction to Mennonite urban mission.
“Richard MacMaster, who was born in the borough of Queens and received his early training in history at Fordham University in the Bronx, is well suited to present this first comprehensive history of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in New York City. The book is impressive in its scope and attention to detail. Readers who are looking for an official history of church missions in New York, replete with numbers of church members, names of the baptized and dates of church plantings, will find this to be an authoritative offering. In using records to ground his research, MacMaster relied on sources like the archives of Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, which became Eastern Mennonite Missions, a powerful agent in spreading the Gospel in the city.” -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
Richard MacMaster
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710701. 382 pp.
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Mennonites have been present in New York City since colonial times, more recently establishing churches as part of mission outreaches. This book provides an historical account of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ presence in New York City. An excellent introduction to Mennonite urban mission.
“Richard MacMaster, who was born in the borough of Queens and received his early training in history at Fordham University in the Bronx, is well suited to present this first comprehensive history of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in New York City. The book is impressive in its scope and attention to detail. Readers who are looking for an official history of church missions in New York, replete with numbers of church members, names of the baptized and dates of church plantings, will find this to be an authoritative offering. In using records to ground his research, MacMaster relied on sources like the archives of Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, which became Eastern Mennonite Missions, a powerful agent in spreading the Gospel in the city.” -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
Mennonite and Nazi? Attitudes Among Mennonite Colonists in Latin America, 1933-1945, by John D. Thiesen. 1999.
Mennonite and Nazi?
Attitudes Among Mennonite Colonists in Latin America, 1933-1945
John D. Thiesen
1999. ISBN-13: 978-0968346259. 329 pp.
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“This is an important book on a dark and controversial period in Mennonite history. The author and Pandora Press are to be congratulated on their courage to publish it. In the preface John Thiesen sets out the book's purpose: The main question running through the book is: ‘Given a long heritage of pacifism plus resistance to the political order and relative withdrawal from it, why did some Mennonites in Latin America fall for Nazism so easily?’ Thiesen's answers to this question are based on an examination of the historical and cultural background of the Russian Mennonites in South America and a careful reading of the available sources, many of which are used here for the first time... This well-written, attractively produced book with its copious sources and notes belongs on the shelf of all serious students of Mennonites’ encounter with National Socialism.”
— Harry Loewen,
in the Conrad Grebel Review
Attitudes Among Mennonite Colonists in Latin America, 1933-1945
John D. Thiesen
1999. ISBN-13: 978-0968346259. 329 pp.
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“This is an important book on a dark and controversial period in Mennonite history. The author and Pandora Press are to be congratulated on their courage to publish it. In the preface John Thiesen sets out the book's purpose: The main question running through the book is: ‘Given a long heritage of pacifism plus resistance to the political order and relative withdrawal from it, why did some Mennonites in Latin America fall for Nazism so easily?’ Thiesen's answers to this question are based on an examination of the historical and cultural background of the Russian Mennonites in South America and a careful reading of the available sources, many of which are used here for the first time... This well-written, attractively produced book with its copious sources and notes belongs on the shelf of all serious students of Mennonites’ encounter with National Socialism.”
— Harry Loewen,
in the Conrad Grebel Review
The Mennonites of St. Jacobs and Elmira: Understanding the Variety, by Barb Draper. 2010.
The Mennonites of St. Jacobs and Elmira
Understanding the Variety
Barb Draper
2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-926599-15-1. 378 pp.
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The Mennonites were among the earliest settlers in Waterloo Region. Over the years, their churches have expanded and divided to form new branches, each with unique traditions. Today some Mennonites are clearly distinguishable by their dress, others are not. Despite outward differences, the deep roots of faith unite the Mennonites. Each community of Mennonites has grown out of a commitment to Christian beliefs centered in the teachings of Jesus. Look closely at the stories of Mennonites, and they reveal a complex and dedicated dialogue between faith and culture often concealed by a simple outward appearance. Local Barb Draper guides her reader through the Mennonite community in all its different forms, looking closely at Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, Old Order Mennonites, David Martins, and the other Mennonite groups that populate the Waterloo Region. She tells the story of Mennonite settlers’ immigration to the area and gives a vivid description of their community life and changing theology during the 19th century. This background provides the context for Draper’s main intention – to help the reader understand the diversity of Mennonites in Waterloo, the reasons for the splits in the church, and the ties that still hold them all together under the name “Mennonite.”
Barb Draper has deep roots in the local Mennonite community. She was born and raised in St. Jacobs and after her marriage to Roy Draper moved to Elmira. They have two sons. Barb has a passion for local history with special interest in Mennonite culture and theology.
Understanding the Variety
Barb Draper
2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-926599-15-1. 378 pp.
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The Mennonites were among the earliest settlers in Waterloo Region. Over the years, their churches have expanded and divided to form new branches, each with unique traditions. Today some Mennonites are clearly distinguishable by their dress, others are not. Despite outward differences, the deep roots of faith unite the Mennonites. Each community of Mennonites has grown out of a commitment to Christian beliefs centered in the teachings of Jesus. Look closely at the stories of Mennonites, and they reveal a complex and dedicated dialogue between faith and culture often concealed by a simple outward appearance. Local Barb Draper guides her reader through the Mennonite community in all its different forms, looking closely at Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, Old Order Mennonites, David Martins, and the other Mennonite groups that populate the Waterloo Region. She tells the story of Mennonite settlers’ immigration to the area and gives a vivid description of their community life and changing theology during the 19th century. This background provides the context for Draper’s main intention – to help the reader understand the diversity of Mennonites in Waterloo, the reasons for the splits in the church, and the ties that still hold them all together under the name “Mennonite.”
Barb Draper has deep roots in the local Mennonite community. She was born and raised in St. Jacobs and after her marriage to Roy Draper moved to Elmira. They have two sons. Barb has a passion for local history with special interest in Mennonite culture and theology.
Mennonite Tent Revivals: Howard Hammer and Myron Augsburger, 1952-1962, by James O. Lehman. 2002.
Mennonite Tent Revivals
Howard Hammer and Myron Augsburger, 1952-1962
James O. Lehman
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710220. 342 pp.
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“In the 1950s, Mennonite communities in Ontario and western Canada experienced successive summer tent campaigns. Mennonite evangelists from the eastern United States set up tents and held revival meetings from two weeks up to a month in one place. In western Canada, some people viewed these tent campaigns as positive, others as negative. Canadians did not get a sense of the context out of which these tent campaigns came, how recently they had begun, nor what they represented. Canadian readers will find this book by James O. Lehman helpful to understand these campaigns better. Lehman, director of libraries at Eastern Mennonite University and author of a number of local history books, presents a well-documented study of the beginnings of Mennonite tent revivals in the eastern United States. In the process, he places the Canadian tent campaigns into context. He shows why they began, who promoted them, what they were intended to do and why, when their appeal began to fade, they were brought to western Canada.”
— John J. Friesen, in the Journal of Mennonite Studies
Howard Hammer and Myron Augsburger, 1952-1962
James O. Lehman
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710220. 342 pp.
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“In the 1950s, Mennonite communities in Ontario and western Canada experienced successive summer tent campaigns. Mennonite evangelists from the eastern United States set up tents and held revival meetings from two weeks up to a month in one place. In western Canada, some people viewed these tent campaigns as positive, others as negative. Canadians did not get a sense of the context out of which these tent campaigns came, how recently they had begun, nor what they represented. Canadian readers will find this book by James O. Lehman helpful to understand these campaigns better. Lehman, director of libraries at Eastern Mennonite University and author of a number of local history books, presents a well-documented study of the beginnings of Mennonite tent revivals in the eastern United States. In the process, he places the Canadian tent campaigns into context. He shows why they began, who promoted them, what they were intended to do and why, when their appeal began to fade, they were brought to western Canada.”
— John J. Friesen, in the Journal of Mennonite Studies
The Missing Peace: The Search for Nonviolent Alternatives in United States History, 2nd Ed., Edited by James C. Juhnke and Carol M. Hunter. 2004.
The Missing Peace
The Search for Nonviolent Alternatives in United States History
James C. Juhnke and Carol M. Hunter
2nd Ed. 2004. ISBN-13: 978-1894710435. 340 pp.
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“This book is a provocative, informative alternative to conventional histories of the US — a much needed antidote to American illusions about the redemptive power of violence.”
—George Crowell,
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“This work is a timely and eye-opening corrective that helps the reader see U.S. history from a whole new perspective.”
—Walter Wink, Auburn Theological Seminary
“In the martial atmosphere brought on by the horrific events of September 11, 2001 the myth of redemptive violence is once again ascendant. The need to glean counterexamples from the past has never been more pressing… The Missing Peace is an important step toward conceptualizing an American past usable to teachers and peacemakers."
—David Hostetter, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
“The scope of the book is stunning... Juhnke and Hunter make a compelling case for why we need to remember national history carefully and critically, with heightened sensitivity to the prophetic peacemakers of the American tradition.”
—Rachel Goossen, History department, Washburn University
“Only when peace heroes become as recognized as war heroes in our textbooks and monuments will we have a chance to become a nation (and world) at peace.”
—James W. Loewen, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont
The Search for Nonviolent Alternatives in United States History
James C. Juhnke and Carol M. Hunter
2nd Ed. 2004. ISBN-13: 978-1894710435. 340 pp.
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“This book is a provocative, informative alternative to conventional histories of the US — a much needed antidote to American illusions about the redemptive power of violence.”
—George Crowell,
in the Conrad Grebel Review
“This work is a timely and eye-opening corrective that helps the reader see U.S. history from a whole new perspective.”
—Walter Wink, Auburn Theological Seminary
“In the martial atmosphere brought on by the horrific events of September 11, 2001 the myth of redemptive violence is once again ascendant. The need to glean counterexamples from the past has never been more pressing… The Missing Peace is an important step toward conceptualizing an American past usable to teachers and peacemakers."
—David Hostetter, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
“The scope of the book is stunning... Juhnke and Hunter make a compelling case for why we need to remember national history carefully and critically, with heightened sensitivity to the prophetic peacemakers of the American tradition.”
—Rachel Goossen, History department, Washburn University
“Only when peace heroes become as recognized as war heroes in our textbooks and monuments will we have a chance to become a nation (and world) at peace.”
—James W. Loewen, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont
The Muria Story: A History of the Chinese Mennonite Church in Indonesia, by Lawrence M. Yoder. 2006.
The Muria Story
A History of the Chinese Mennonite Church in Indonesia
Lawrence M. Yoder
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710602. 386 pp.
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“This careful study of the origins and development of the Chinese Mennonite churches in Indonesia by Lawrence M. Yoder grows out of his decade of service in Indonesia where he worked closely with both the Chinese and Javanese Mennonite churches. The book is divided into six parts and thirty-one chapters and structured to follow developments chronologically between 1918 and 1980. It is copiously documented with references to official minutes of local congregations and the conference boards... This history will remain the standard reference for the story of the founding and development up to 1980 of the Indonesian Chinese Mennonite Church. Few Mennonite-related churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America have a comparable resource.” – Wilbert R. Shenk, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Lawrence M. Yoder and his wife Shirlee K. Yoder were assigned to Indonesia in 1970 under appointment by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), with an initial assignment to help train pastors for the rapidly-growing Mennonite-related churches there. When the Muria (GKMI) synod decided to write its history in 1976, Yoder was asked to collaborate, eventually becoming the writer responsible for completing the work. The Yoders served in Indonesia through 1979, during which time their family grew with the births of three sons. In 1983 Lawrence began teaching at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, where he continues to serve as Professor of Missiology.
A History of the Chinese Mennonite Church in Indonesia
Lawrence M. Yoder
2006. ISBN-13: 978-1894710602. 386 pp.
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“This careful study of the origins and development of the Chinese Mennonite churches in Indonesia by Lawrence M. Yoder grows out of his decade of service in Indonesia where he worked closely with both the Chinese and Javanese Mennonite churches. The book is divided into six parts and thirty-one chapters and structured to follow developments chronologically between 1918 and 1980. It is copiously documented with references to official minutes of local congregations and the conference boards... This history will remain the standard reference for the story of the founding and development up to 1980 of the Indonesian Chinese Mennonite Church. Few Mennonite-related churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America have a comparable resource.” – Wilbert R. Shenk, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Lawrence M. Yoder and his wife Shirlee K. Yoder were assigned to Indonesia in 1970 under appointment by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), with an initial assignment to help train pastors for the rapidly-growing Mennonite-related churches there. When the Muria (GKMI) synod decided to write its history in 1976, Yoder was asked to collaborate, eventually becoming the writer responsible for completing the work. The Yoders served in Indonesia through 1979, during which time their family grew with the births of three sons. In 1983 Lawrence began teaching at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, where he continues to serve as Professor of Missiology.
My Early Years : An Autobiography. By Robert S. Kreider. 2002.
My Early Years
An Autobiography
Robert S. Kreider
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710237. 624 pp.
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“Robert Kreider is a masterful storyteller and has often used stories to bring Mennonite history to life for students and other audiences. In this volume he tells his own story, detailing the richness of his experiences during the first thirty-three years of his life (1919-1952). While he includes some reflections, this autobiography is not primarily an analytical work with critiques of institutional or theological developments in the twentieth-century Mennonite community. Instead, the focus is on events, sometimes quite personal, as he describes his life in the context of his family, neighborhood, school, church and community. Perhaps the most significant theme is his growing sense of belonging to the worldwide Mennonite community.”
— David A. Haury, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
“Robert Kreider is one of the grand old men of the Mennonite church and community. This book is the story of the first thirty-three years of his life, years during which he devoted much of his time to the service of humanity, working within the framework of Mennonite charitable, relief, educational, and church structures. He helped to shape wartime and post-war events which radically changed much in world-wide Mennonite perspectives and programs.”
— Ted Regehr, in the Conrad Grebel Review
An Autobiography
Robert S. Kreider
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710237. 624 pp.
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“Robert Kreider is a masterful storyteller and has often used stories to bring Mennonite history to life for students and other audiences. In this volume he tells his own story, detailing the richness of his experiences during the first thirty-three years of his life (1919-1952). While he includes some reflections, this autobiography is not primarily an analytical work with critiques of institutional or theological developments in the twentieth-century Mennonite community. Instead, the focus is on events, sometimes quite personal, as he describes his life in the context of his family, neighborhood, school, church and community. Perhaps the most significant theme is his growing sense of belonging to the worldwide Mennonite community.”
— David A. Haury, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
“Robert Kreider is one of the grand old men of the Mennonite church and community. This book is the story of the first thirty-three years of his life, years during which he devoted much of his time to the service of humanity, working within the framework of Mennonite charitable, relief, educational, and church structures. He helped to shape wartime and post-war events which radically changed much in world-wide Mennonite perspectives and programs.”
— Ted Regehr, in the Conrad Grebel Review
Nestor Makhno and the Eichenfeld Massacre: A Civil War Tragedy in a Ukrainian Mennonite Village, Compiled, Translated, and Edited by Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, and John B. Toews. 2004.
Nestor Makhno and the Eichenfeld Massacre
A Civil War Tragedy in a Ukrainian Mennonite Village
Compiled, Translated, and Edited by Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, and John B. Toews
2004. ISBN13: 978-1894710466. 115 pages.
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The nighttime massacre of 136 innocent Mennonites at Eichenfeld/ Dubovka (Novopetrovka) on October 26 to 27, 1919, and elsewhere in the Nikolaipole volost during the years of 1918-1920, was one of numerous atrocities of the Russion revolution and civil war. The victims were pacifist men, women and children, neither partisans nor combatants, but peaceful villagers and visiting evangelists. The horror and insecurity of the times did not permit the dead of Eichenfeld to be openly mourned. Unwashed, they were hastily buried in shallow graves before surviving family members and villagers fled into nearby Mennonite villages. Eighty-two years later, on Sunday, May 27, 2001, Mennonites and Ukrainians gathered at the burial site to acknowledge the Eichenfeld massacre and to honor the memory of the dead. In an act of human solidarity, a large group of residents from the surrounding villages who were in attendance adopted the memorial as their own and promised to care for it. This volume tells the story of the massacre. It includes eyewitness accounts and reminiscences by Mennonites and Ukrainians.
“This slim volume brings together the accounts of Mennonite witnesses and Ukrainian recollections of the 1919 massacres by Makhno forces in the Iasykovo area with historical analysis of the civil war setting in which they took place. The occasion was the memorial service held at the former village of Eichenfeld in May 2001 to honour the victims and work toward a peaceful healing of memories.”
— Adolf Ens, in The Mennonite Historian
A Civil War Tragedy in a Ukrainian Mennonite Village
Compiled, Translated, and Edited by Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, and John B. Toews
2004. ISBN13: 978-1894710466. 115 pages.
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The nighttime massacre of 136 innocent Mennonites at Eichenfeld/ Dubovka (Novopetrovka) on October 26 to 27, 1919, and elsewhere in the Nikolaipole volost during the years of 1918-1920, was one of numerous atrocities of the Russion revolution and civil war. The victims were pacifist men, women and children, neither partisans nor combatants, but peaceful villagers and visiting evangelists. The horror and insecurity of the times did not permit the dead of Eichenfeld to be openly mourned. Unwashed, they were hastily buried in shallow graves before surviving family members and villagers fled into nearby Mennonite villages. Eighty-two years later, on Sunday, May 27, 2001, Mennonites and Ukrainians gathered at the burial site to acknowledge the Eichenfeld massacre and to honor the memory of the dead. In an act of human solidarity, a large group of residents from the surrounding villages who were in attendance adopted the memorial as their own and promised to care for it. This volume tells the story of the massacre. It includes eyewitness accounts and reminiscences by Mennonites and Ukrainians.
“This slim volume brings together the accounts of Mennonite witnesses and Ukrainian recollections of the 1919 massacres by Makhno forces in the Iasykovo area with historical analysis of the civil war setting in which they took place. The occasion was the memorial service held at the former village of Eichenfeld in May 2001 to honour the victims and work toward a peaceful healing of memories.”
— Adolf Ens, in The Mennonite Historian
None But Saints: The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia, 1789-1889, by James Urry. Second printing with a new introduction. 2007.
"Urry’s book is a 'must' for everyone interested in the Russian phase of Mennonite experience and its formative influence on many Mennonites in North and South America in particular." |
None But Saints
The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia 1789-1889 James Urry Second printing with a new introduction. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1894710718. 386 pp. Available on Amazon.ca This book deals with the first century of Russian Mennonite settlement, and the dynamics of change in Mennonite communities in Russia between 1780 and 1889. It chronicles the establishment in southern Russia of prosperous agrarian colonies, the foundation of religious congregations and the creation of new economic, social and political institutions. Mennonites in Russia had to face the dual challenge of the emergence of a modern, industrial society and the increasing power of the Russian state. As Mennonite responded to these challenges, and some grew rich and successful, tension and conflict in their communities increased. This resulted in the division of congregations and communities and the further emigration of many Mennonites to North America. James Urry is a professor at the School of Social and Cultural Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. |
Radical Faith: An Alternative History of the Christian Church, by John Driver, Edited by Carrie Snyder. 1999.
Radical Faith
An Alternative History of the Christian Church
John Driver. Edited by Carrie Snyder
1999. ISBN-13: 978-0968346280. 334 pages.
Translated from the Spanish: La fe en la periferia de la historia. Guatemala: Edicione Clara-Semilla, 1997.
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“This book is not the story of the Ecumenical Councils, of theological debates, of Princes and Popes, or of crusades and conquests. 'This is the story of the poor and oppressed, surprised by the grace of God those who, by human standards, have stood outside the institutions of salvation of those called to prophetic mission and martyrdom the story of the Messianic people who live in expectation of the radical restoration of God's kingdom, in all its vigor and splendor. Driver's book assumes a 'Constantinian shift,' which made the history of most of Christianity, to use Enrique Dussel's terms, an 'anti-Christian inversion.' It is because of this perspective that Driver begins with two chapters which set forth this biblical vision (chapter 1 'The Story of the Christian People' and chapter 2 'A Biblical Vision of the People of God'). Here it becomes clear that the book uses these theological criteria (based on Anabaptist understanding of Jesus' life and teachings) as a 'filter' but will also highlight the economic and social factors that seem to consistently appear at the origins of the various movements chosen as representatives of 'radical faith.' The close attention paid to these different historical contexts is one of the strong points and strengths of the book.” — Neal Blough, in Mennonite Life
An Alternative History of the Christian Church
John Driver. Edited by Carrie Snyder
1999. ISBN-13: 978-0968346280. 334 pages.
Translated from the Spanish: La fe en la periferia de la historia. Guatemala: Edicione Clara-Semilla, 1997.
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“This book is not the story of the Ecumenical Councils, of theological debates, of Princes and Popes, or of crusades and conquests. 'This is the story of the poor and oppressed, surprised by the grace of God those who, by human standards, have stood outside the institutions of salvation of those called to prophetic mission and martyrdom the story of the Messianic people who live in expectation of the radical restoration of God's kingdom, in all its vigor and splendor. Driver's book assumes a 'Constantinian shift,' which made the history of most of Christianity, to use Enrique Dussel's terms, an 'anti-Christian inversion.' It is because of this perspective that Driver begins with two chapters which set forth this biblical vision (chapter 1 'The Story of the Christian People' and chapter 2 'A Biblical Vision of the People of God'). Here it becomes clear that the book uses these theological criteria (based on Anabaptist understanding of Jesus' life and teachings) as a 'filter' but will also highlight the economic and social factors that seem to consistently appear at the origins of the various movements chosen as representatives of 'radical faith.' The close attention paid to these different historical contexts is one of the strong points and strengths of the book.” — Neal Blough, in Mennonite Life
Reading the Anabaptist Bible: Reflections for Every Day of the Year, Edited by C. Arnold Snyder and Galen A. Peters. 2002.
Reading the Anabaptist Bible
Reflections for Every Day of the Year
Edited by C. Arnold Snyder and Galen A. Peters
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710251. 415 pp.
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Reading the Anabaptist Bible is a unique day book, with one page of meditative readings set for each day of the year. Every daily reading is composed of two primary elements: a Bible passage for the day, and an Anabaptist testimony reflecting on the biblical words. Anintroduction by Arthur Paul Boers provides practical suggestions for the meditative reading of this collection.
“Reading the Anabaptist Bible is a unique publication within the areas of Anabaptist history and theology, mainly because it serves as a daily guide for the spiritual disciplines. The book contains 365 readings, each containing three elements: a Bible passage, a brief explanatory text and an Anabaptist testimony reflecting on the biblical text or teaching.”
— Mennonite Life
“How does one use such a resource? Though valuable to scholars, the book is even more valuable to the church in offering a wide view of what mattered most to our ancestors in the faith. Their familiarity with scripture and commitment to disciplined Christian living challenge the church to faithfulness. Just as our ancestors kept these verses in their hearts, we too may be inspired to meditate on scripture and let it work its transforming way in our lives.”
— Marlene Kropf, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Reflections for Every Day of the Year
Edited by C. Arnold Snyder and Galen A. Peters
2002. ISBN-13: 978-1894710251. 415 pp.
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Reading the Anabaptist Bible is a unique day book, with one page of meditative readings set for each day of the year. Every daily reading is composed of two primary elements: a Bible passage for the day, and an Anabaptist testimony reflecting on the biblical words. Anintroduction by Arthur Paul Boers provides practical suggestions for the meditative reading of this collection.
“Reading the Anabaptist Bible is a unique publication within the areas of Anabaptist history and theology, mainly because it serves as a daily guide for the spiritual disciplines. The book contains 365 readings, each containing three elements: a Bible passage, a brief explanatory text and an Anabaptist testimony reflecting on the biblical text or teaching.”
— Mennonite Life
“How does one use such a resource? Though valuable to scholars, the book is even more valuable to the church in offering a wide view of what mattered most to our ancestors in the faith. Their familiarity with scripture and commitment to disciplined Christian living challenge the church to faithfulness. Just as our ancestors kept these verses in their hearts, we too may be inspired to meditate on scripture and let it work its transforming way in our lives.”
— Marlene Kropf, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Shepherds, Servants and Prophets: Leadership Among the Russian Mennonites, Edited by Harry Loewen. 2003.
Shepherds, Servants and Prophets
Leadership Among the Russian Mennonites
Edited by Harry Loewen
2003. ISBN-13: 978-1926599816. 446 pp.
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This volume presents twenty-four short biographies of some of the spiritual, intellectual and cultural Russian-Mennonite leaders who sought to serve and guide their people through difficult times. The period from 1880 to 1960 was chosen because it was during this time that Russian Mennonites experienced the most revolutionary changes in their history: great intellectual, cultural and material strides, World War I and the Communist Revolution, the collapse of their "Mennonite Commonwealth," the Stalinist Terror, emigration, their suffering during World War II, and their resettlement in new countries. The authors of the biographies were asked to briefly summarize the leaders' lives, discuss their significant world and writing, and evaluate their contribution to Mennonite society and beyond. The biographies were to be objective, even critical, accounts, not stories of “perfect” leaders.
“This substantial book consists of twenty-four biographical sketches by various authors, all seasoned scholars, on Russian Mennonite male leaders in the spiritual, intellectual and cultural spheres. The deft introduction by Harry Loewen briefly describes the historical context of a significant transformation from a more isolated, primarily agricultural, ethno-religious society led by conservative lay ministers to a complex society of higher education, industrial development, religious conflict, and vast disparities of wealth.”
— David J. Rempel Smucker, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Leadership Among the Russian Mennonites
Edited by Harry Loewen
2003. ISBN-13: 978-1926599816. 446 pp.
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This volume presents twenty-four short biographies of some of the spiritual, intellectual and cultural Russian-Mennonite leaders who sought to serve and guide their people through difficult times. The period from 1880 to 1960 was chosen because it was during this time that Russian Mennonites experienced the most revolutionary changes in their history: great intellectual, cultural and material strides, World War I and the Communist Revolution, the collapse of their "Mennonite Commonwealth," the Stalinist Terror, emigration, their suffering during World War II, and their resettlement in new countries. The authors of the biographies were asked to briefly summarize the leaders' lives, discuss their significant world and writing, and evaluate their contribution to Mennonite society and beyond. The biographies were to be objective, even critical, accounts, not stories of “perfect” leaders.
“This substantial book consists of twenty-four biographical sketches by various authors, all seasoned scholars, on Russian Mennonite male leaders in the spiritual, intellectual and cultural spheres. The deft introduction by Harry Loewen briefly describes the historical context of a significant transformation from a more isolated, primarily agricultural, ethno-religious society led by conservative lay ministers to a complex society of higher education, industrial development, religious conflict, and vast disparities of wealth.”
— David J. Rempel Smucker, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
The Transforming Power of a Century: Mennonite Central Committee and its Evolution in Ontario, by Lucille Marr. 2003.
The Transforming Power of a Century
Mennonite Central Committee and its Evolution in Ontario
Lucille Marr
2003. ISBN: 978-1894710411. 390 pp.
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The Transforming Power of a Century is a history of the Mennonite Central Committee in Ontario. It outlines the many ways that Ontario Mennonite and Brethren in Christ have demonstrated their commitment to peace and service. MCC Ontario grew and evolved because it was open to the transform-ation necessary to continue serving ‘In the Name of Christ.’ Using oral interviews and archival sources, this history preserves the stories of those who founded MCC in Ontario, and many who were a part of the amazing transformations that saw it evolve throughout the century. To use Ernest J. Swalm's words in his address to the newly formed MCC Ontario in 1967, the author has re-created the events that came together in the ‘transforming power of a century.’
“Lucille Marr's survey of half a century in the life of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario offers a richly detailed and personalized account of many women and men who transformed their understanding of nonresistance to imagine a world made better by voluntary service done 'in the name of Christ.'” – Marlene Epp
“I thought I knew the essential ingredients of the MCC stories. But Lucille Marr fills in more than a few gaps. This book is one of the two or three essential books for anyone, including any Executive Director of MCC International, wishing to understand the 'transforming power' of this significant ministry.”
– John A. Lapp, in the Journal of Mennonite Studies
Mennonite Central Committee and its Evolution in Ontario
Lucille Marr
2003. ISBN: 978-1894710411. 390 pp.
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The Transforming Power of a Century is a history of the Mennonite Central Committee in Ontario. It outlines the many ways that Ontario Mennonite and Brethren in Christ have demonstrated their commitment to peace and service. MCC Ontario grew and evolved because it was open to the transform-ation necessary to continue serving ‘In the Name of Christ.’ Using oral interviews and archival sources, this history preserves the stories of those who founded MCC in Ontario, and many who were a part of the amazing transformations that saw it evolve throughout the century. To use Ernest J. Swalm's words in his address to the newly formed MCC Ontario in 1967, the author has re-created the events that came together in the ‘transforming power of a century.’
“Lucille Marr's survey of half a century in the life of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario offers a richly detailed and personalized account of many women and men who transformed their understanding of nonresistance to imagine a world made better by voluntary service done 'in the name of Christ.'” – Marlene Epp
“I thought I knew the essential ingredients of the MCC stories. But Lucille Marr fills in more than a few gaps. This book is one of the two or three essential books for anyone, including any Executive Director of MCC International, wishing to understand the 'transforming power' of this significant ministry.”
– John A. Lapp, in the Journal of Mennonite Studies
Tradition and Formation Claiming an Inheritance Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb Edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus . 2009.
Tradition and Formation
Claiming an Inheritance: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb
Edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus
2009. ISBN 978-19265990201. 385 pp.
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Noted scholars in Germany, England, the United States, and Canada here honour Peter C. Erb with original contributions across the wide range of academic disciplines in which he taught and did research during his 37 years as a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. These disciplines are reflected in the book’s sections. Inheritance features studies of early Christianity, medieval monasticism, Anabaptists, Schwenkfelders, and Pietism. The Oxford Movement and such personages as Disraeli, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins appear here as well. Tradition and Literature offers contributions on Chaucer, Shakespeare, a once decried novel on lesbian love, and other writers such as Cervantes, Freud, and Graham Greene. Finally, Religion and Formation includes, among others, an essay on justice in post-glasnost Russia, and searching, personal reflections by a longtime friend and colleague of the honoree.
The introduction traces Professor Erb’s career from his Amish roots in a small town in Ontario to university studies in Waterloo and Toronto, his career as a professor and scholar of international repute, and his move from the Amish faith to Roman Catholicism. The catalogue of Professor Erb’s publications lists the 17 books of which he is author, editor, or translator, his thirty-some chapters or articles in books and reference works, his more than 40 articles in refereed journals, and his forthcoming three-volume critical edition of the correspondence between Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone.
Claiming an Inheritance: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb
Edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus
2009. ISBN 978-19265990201. 385 pp.
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Noted scholars in Germany, England, the United States, and Canada here honour Peter C. Erb with original contributions across the wide range of academic disciplines in which he taught and did research during his 37 years as a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. These disciplines are reflected in the book’s sections. Inheritance features studies of early Christianity, medieval monasticism, Anabaptists, Schwenkfelders, and Pietism. The Oxford Movement and such personages as Disraeli, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins appear here as well. Tradition and Literature offers contributions on Chaucer, Shakespeare, a once decried novel on lesbian love, and other writers such as Cervantes, Freud, and Graham Greene. Finally, Religion and Formation includes, among others, an essay on justice in post-glasnost Russia, and searching, personal reflections by a longtime friend and colleague of the honoree.
The introduction traces Professor Erb’s career from his Amish roots in a small town in Ontario to university studies in Waterloo and Toronto, his career as a professor and scholar of international repute, and his move from the Amish faith to Roman Catholicism. The catalogue of Professor Erb’s publications lists the 17 books of which he is author, editor, or translator, his thirty-some chapters or articles in books and reference works, his more than 40 articles in refereed journals, and his forthcoming three-volume critical edition of the correspondence between Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone.
We Bear the Loss Together: A History of the Mennonite Aid Union, by Laureen Harder Gissing. 2009.
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Windows to a Village: Life Studies of Yarrow Pioneers. Edited by R. Martens, M. Jantzen and H. Neufeldt. 2007.
Windows to a Village
Life Studies of Yarrow Pioneers
Edited by Robert Martens, Maryann Tjart Jantzen and Harvey Neufeldt
2007. ISBN 976-1-894710-79-4. 450 pp.
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Gathered together in this book are the life stories of “perfectly ordinary, perfectly remarkable people.” Told together, they open historical windows to the village of Yarrow, British Columbia, providing a unique social-historical, composite portrait of a town and its people. Here we find the personal stories of farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs, labourers, parents, children, men, women, the “insiders” and the marginalized. Their creative responses to the realities of their time and place built a village that continues to flourish. It is the sincere hope of the editors that these stories “will shed some affectionate light upon the troubled shadows of history.”
“This book presents fifteen biographical studies, almost all based in part on oral interviews, of a wide variety of people who lived in Yarrow, British Columbia, from the village’s founding 1927 through its height in the 1940s and during its slow economic decline since then. For its founders, Yarrow offered the opportunity for Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren Rußländer immigrants of the 1920s to reestablish a traditional Russian-style Mennonite village—a strategy that did not, ultimately, succeed but that produced a thriving center of Mennonite rural life for much of the mid-twentieth century. The fully documented chapters include life-sketches of ministers and other church leaders, a local politician, businesspeople, a social worker who was also one of the first women in the community to pursue higher education...”
– Mennonite Quarterly Review
Life Studies of Yarrow Pioneers
Edited by Robert Martens, Maryann Tjart Jantzen and Harvey Neufeldt
2007. ISBN 976-1-894710-79-4. 450 pp.
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Gathered together in this book are the life stories of “perfectly ordinary, perfectly remarkable people.” Told together, they open historical windows to the village of Yarrow, British Columbia, providing a unique social-historical, composite portrait of a town and its people. Here we find the personal stories of farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs, labourers, parents, children, men, women, the “insiders” and the marginalized. Their creative responses to the realities of their time and place built a village that continues to flourish. It is the sincere hope of the editors that these stories “will shed some affectionate light upon the troubled shadows of history.”
“This book presents fifteen biographical studies, almost all based in part on oral interviews, of a wide variety of people who lived in Yarrow, British Columbia, from the village’s founding 1927 through its height in the 1940s and during its slow economic decline since then. For its founders, Yarrow offered the opportunity for Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren Rußländer immigrants of the 1920s to reestablish a traditional Russian-style Mennonite village—a strategy that did not, ultimately, succeed but that produced a thriving center of Mennonite rural life for much of the mid-twentieth century. The fully documented chapters include life-sketches of ministers and other church leaders, a local politician, businesspeople, a social worker who was also one of the first women in the community to pursue higher education...”
– Mennonite Quarterly Review
Yon Far Country A Social and Personal Memoir of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Sara Stambaugh. 2009.
Yon Far Country
A Social and Personal Memoir of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Sara Stambaugh
2009. ISBN 978-1-926599-03-8. 345 pp.
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“Yon Far Country is a memoir of a woman born and raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but it is also a memoir of a particular community. The novelist Sara Stambaugh (1936-2002), daughter of Evelyn Hershey Stambaugh and Clarence Stambaugh, was born in the town of New Holland and spent most of her childhood life in surrounding Lancaster County. Today Lancaster is known for its Amish population and attracts thousands of tourists every year. Stambaugh describes a different era in Yon Far Country, one in which Mennonites owned more of the farmland and tourists were fewer in number. The book depicts this earlier time in the rural country culture and in the community in Lancaster. The book is also a fascinating window into the early life of a writer who, despite moving to Canada and living there most of her life, still felt rooted in and connected to her childhood homeland.”
– Eileen R. Kinch,
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Sara Stambaugh (1936-2002) was born in New Holland, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1936. She received her B.A. from Beaver College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Minnesota. From 1969 until 1995, she taught in the English Department at the University of Alberta. She is the author of several works of fiction but is best known for her critical analyses of the works of Isak Dinesen entitled Isak Dineson in America and The Witch and the Goddess in the stories of Isak Dinesen: a Feminist Reading.
A Social and Personal Memoir of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Sara Stambaugh
2009. ISBN 978-1-926599-03-8. 345 pp.
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“Yon Far Country is a memoir of a woman born and raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but it is also a memoir of a particular community. The novelist Sara Stambaugh (1936-2002), daughter of Evelyn Hershey Stambaugh and Clarence Stambaugh, was born in the town of New Holland and spent most of her childhood life in surrounding Lancaster County. Today Lancaster is known for its Amish population and attracts thousands of tourists every year. Stambaugh describes a different era in Yon Far Country, one in which Mennonites owned more of the farmland and tourists were fewer in number. The book depicts this earlier time in the rural country culture and in the community in Lancaster. The book is also a fascinating window into the early life of a writer who, despite moving to Canada and living there most of her life, still felt rooted in and connected to her childhood homeland.”
– Eileen R. Kinch,
in the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Sara Stambaugh (1936-2002) was born in New Holland, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1936. She received her B.A. from Beaver College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Minnesota. From 1969 until 1995, she taught in the English Department at the University of Alberta. She is the author of several works of fiction but is best known for her critical analyses of the works of Isak Dinesen entitled Isak Dineson in America and The Witch and the Goddess in the stories of Isak Dinesen: a Feminist Reading.
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- Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland, Edited by Alan Kreider and Stuart Murray. 2000. Out of Print.
- The Mennonite Brethren Church Around the World: Celebrating 150 Years, Edited by Abe Dueck. 2010. Digital Copy Available from CommonWord.
- Consider the Threshing Stone: Writings of Jacob J. Rempel, A Mennonite in Russia. Edited by David J. Rempel Smucker, Translated by David J. Rempel Smucker, and Eleanore (Rempel) Woollard. 2009. Print copies available by order through the contact form.
- Dirk Philips: Friend and Colleague of Menno Simons, by Jacobus ten Doornkaat Koolman. Translated by William H. Keeney. Edited by C. Arnold Snyder. 1998. Print copies available by order through the contact form.
- Faith, Life and Witness in the Northwest, 1903– 2003: Centennial History of the Northwest Mennonite Conference, by T. D. Regehr. 2003. Print copies available by order through the contact form.
- New Songs, by Otto H. Selles and Geraldine Selles-Ysselstein. 2001. Print copies available by order through the contact form.
- We Bear the Loss Together: A History of the Mennonite Aid Union, by Laureen Harder Gissing. 2009. Print copies available by order through the contact form.