"As You Go": John Howard Yoder as a Mission Theologian JOON-SIK PARK[?]  Abstract: In this essay, I intend to portray John Howard Yoder as a mission theologian who consistently turned to the Scriptures and to the Radical Reformation tradition for insight on…
BOOK REVIEWS Reading the Anabaptist Bible: Reflections for Every Day of the Year. Edited by C. Arnold Snyder and Galen A. Peters. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press and Herald Press. 2002. Pp. 425. $29, U.S.; $38, Can. Even as a child, I recognized a canon within the canon, the…
A Neo-Anabaptist Approach to Missions: Ralph and Genevieve Buckwalter and the Hokkaido Mennonite Church, 1949-1980 EMILY HERSHBERGER* Abstract: Ralph and Genevieve Buckwalter’s approach to Mennonite missionary service in Hokkaido, Japan, embodied an emerging neo-Anabaptist vision of missions that stood in sharp contrast to the Mennonite mission movement of the nineteenth…
Review Essay: Christology in the Political Theology of Oliver O’Donovan PAUL DOERKSEN* Abstract: Jesus Christ plays a central role for Oliver O’Donovan’s Christian ethics generally, as he sees the resurrection as the basis for moral action and as the vindication of creation. This fundamental argument of Resurrection and Moral Order,…
IN THIS ISSUE As the U.S. presidential election campaign begins to heat up and public debate regarding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to divide the country, the question of Mennonite involvement in politics once again calls for attention. Ted Grimsrud, Associate Professor of Theology and Peace Studies…
Contents of Volume LXXVIII April 2004 Number Two In This Issue Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam Bookseller: Preaching, Publishing and the Mennonite Enlightenment Keith L. Sprunger Vistula Delta Mennonites Encounter German Nationalism, 1813-1820 Mark Jantzen Thinking…
A New Paradigm in Anabaptist/Mennonite Historiography’ JAMES M. STAYER* Eifriger als Zwingli. Die frhe Tuferbewegung in der Schweiz. By Andrea Strbind. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2003. Pp. 617. Andrea Strbind describes herself as a church historian and Baptist theologian linked to the historical Anabaptist tradition. She sees church history as…
Cultural Attitudes in Western Christianity Toward the Community of Goods in Acts 2 and 4 RETA HALTEMAN FINGER* Abstract: In Acts 2 and 4, the Lukan author summarizes the nature of the Jerusalem church by describing a community of shared material goods. Because the texts are descriptive, rather than…
BOOK REVIEWS Biblical Concordance of the Swiss Brethren, 1540. Anabaptist Texts in Translation, vol. 2. Translated by Gilbert Fast and Galen A. Peters, introduction by Joe Springer, edited by C. Arnold Snyder. Kitchener, Ont., and Scottdale, Pa.: Pandora Press and Herald Press. 2001. Pp. lv + 227. $23, U.S.; $25,…
Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam Bookseller: Preaching, Publishing and the Mennonite Enlightenment KEITH L. SPRUNGER* Abstract: Frans Houttuyn, disciple of Newton and other Enlightenment thinkers, was an eighteenth-century Mennonite bookseller, publisher and preacher of Amsterdam. His bookshop, the “Isaac Newton,” was a hub for like-minded Mennonites in discussing new ideas and buying…
