January 1999 RENEWING THE CONVERSATION: MENNONITE RESPONSES TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL EARL ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: Mennonite responses to the Second Vatican Council as reported in North American Mennonite publications indicated a new spirit of openness among Mennonites toward Catholics. Mennonite…
July 1999 Of Borders and Boundaries: Reflections on Mennonite Unity and Separation in the Modern World JAMES URRY* Abstract: The writing of national Mennonite histories, such as those recently completed in the United States and Canada, assumes a…
April 1999 Mennonite Debates About Church Architecture In Europe And America: Questions Of History And Theology KEITH L. SPRUNGER Abstract: Mennonite church buildings (or meetinghouses) are traditionally simple and plain. One can find numerous examples of the Mennonite plain architectural…
July 1999 Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History THERON F. SCHLABACH* Abstract. In the early 1940s, a generational transition among historians engaged in Mennonite history produced a fine historiographical debate. In the 1990s another…
April 1999 ANABAPTIST-MENNONITE SPACES AND PLACES OF WORSHIP JOHN M. JANZEN This special issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review explores the Anabaptist perspective on the relationship of worship, broadly defined, to the physical place in which it occurs. Worship here…
October 1999 Orie Benjamin Gerig: Mennonite Rebel, Peace Activist, International Civil Servant, and American Diplomat, 1894-1976 GERLOF D. HOMAN* Abstract: While American Mennonites have been willing to serve in local and state governments they have not generally sought national office or…
October 1999 The Politics of Rudy Wiebe in The Blue Mountains of China ERVIN BECK* Abstract: Although Rudy Wiebe’s novel The Blue Mountains of China was published in 1970, two years before John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus, the novel…
