Three Women Poets and the Beginnings of Mennonite Poetry in the U.S: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, Jean Janzen ANN HOSTETLER* Abstract: This paper explores from a cultural studies perspective the pioneering contributions of three women poets’Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, and Jean Janzen’to a growing twentieth-century…
Reading Marpeck for the First Time STEVEN SIEBERT* Abstract: Marpeck’s theology, when read for the first time, is seen to be thoroughly incarnational: ?essences? can only be known through mediation, meaning is constituted only in performative, bodily action, and Christ’s specific embodiment is integral to his identity. What emerges at…
Contents of Volume LXXVIII January 2004 Number One In Memoriam: J. Howard Kauffman, 1919-2003 In This Issue The Legacy of the Marpeck Community in Anabaptist Scholarship William Klassen The Church as Sign or Sacrament? Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck,…
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Papers: “Mennonites and Refugees: A 25 Year Retrospective.” A history conference examining the interaction between North American Mennonites and refugees will take place on September 30 – October 1, 2005, at the University of Winnipeg. The conference is held on the 25th anniversary of the…
Review Essay: Luther Blissett, Q, trans. Shaun Whiteside (London: William Heinemann, 2003) JACOB JOST* Beginning in the mid-1990s, a group of conceptual artists pulled a series of sophisticated stunts and pranks across Italy, creating fictional news stories and inventing from whole cloth an English cyclist, Harry Kipper, who supposedly…
BOOK REVIEWS Dutch Mennonite Mission in Indonesia: Historical Essays. By Alle Hoekema. Elkhart, Ind.: Institute of Mennonite Studies. 2001. Pp. 148. $15. Six essays with an introduction compose this book inviting English-speakers into the story of the Dutch Mennonite mission launched 155 years ago. A seminary professor and former…
The Church as Sign or Sacrament: Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II and John Milbank NEAL BLOUGH* Abstract: This essay compares Marpeck’s incarnational and trinitarian Christology with developments in Catholic sacramental theology related to Vatican II, arguing that notions such as the “humanity of Christ” or the “unglorified body of…
IN THIS ISSUE Few figures have generated more scholarly attention among historians of Anabaptism in the past twenty years than the Swiss/South German theologian and civil engineer Pilgram Marpeck (c1495-1556). Although he never established an enduring movement that bore his name, Marpeck’s rich legacy of theological writings helped to shape…
