Project Updates
Biblioteca Digital Anabautista
The digitization of materials for the Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA) continues. The ISGA, Mennonite Historical Library, and AMBS have been collaborating on the development of a digital library of Anabaptist-Mennonite theological resources in Spanish. Hosted by ISGA’s Global Anbaptist Wiki (www.anabaptistwiki.org) and supported by Mennonite Mission Network, this collection is especially intended to serve on-line courses offered by Latin American seminaries. The materials are also fully accessible to anyone looking for relevant theological resources in Spanish.
Many of the published writings by John Driver are now available as well as resources by other scholars such as Carolyn Holderread Heggen, Daniel Schipani, and Dennis Byler. Works can be viewed thematically or by author.
Samples:
- John Driver, La Paz y la Misión de la Iglesia
- Dennis Byler, Habler sobre Dios desde la Biblia
- Carolyn Holderread Heggen, Abuso Sexual en los Hogares Cristianos y la Iglesia
- Daniel Schipani, Discipulado y Liberación
- Nelson Kraybill, Apocalipsis y Lealtad
- John Driver, Dios y César: Paz y Militarismo
- Luis Berkhof, Teología Sistemática
- Rhoda Shenk Keener and Carolyn Holderread Heggen, Cuidándonos Entre Mujeres: Preparándonos para un ministerio de compasión
Translation Projects
Work is moving forward on a translation project that the ISGA is overseeing with the help of a grant from the Schowalter Foundation. Three MWC-related texts—The MWC Global Anabaptist Profile; John Driver, Life Together in the Spirit; and Bearing Witness: Stories of Martyrdom and Costly Discipleship—are currently being translated into Spanish, French, Hindi, and Indonesian. We hope to have this project completed in time for the MWC General Council meetings, which will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in April, 2018.
Visiting Scholar: Yennamalla Jayaker
In early July the ISGA hosted Yennamalla Jayaker, a visiting scholar from the Telangana region of India, as he conducted research at the Mennonite Historical Library of Goshen College on the Mennonite Brethren Church in India. Jayaker serves as a lecturer at the Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College in Shamshabad and as a pastor of a local MB congregation. He is also the editor of Suvarthamani, a journal published on behalf of the MB church, and is currently in a doctoral program at Serampore College focused on the Dalit Christian contribution to socio-cultural, political, and economic transformation in the Telangana Region. We were pleased to support Jakayer’s work, and extend our thanks to John and Dorothy Yoder Nyce for providing hospitality during his time in Goshen.