BOOK REVIEWS Dialogue and Drama: Elements of Greek Tragedy in the Fourth Gospel. By Jo-Ann A. Brant. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers. 2004. Pp. xvi + 304. $19.95. John’s Gospel has been analyzed historically, theologically, structurally and narratively, yielding rich insights. John has been valued as a spiritual Gospel, foundational to…
Contemporary Counsel on Mennonite Engagement with the State Anabaptist Advocacy J. DARYL BYLER* For a variety of reasons, some Mennonites choose not to vote or to engage in the political process. Others believe this is an important part of our faith witness. This essay assumes that some form of…
Mennonites, African-Americans, the U.S. Constitution and the Problem of Assimilation LEE ROY BERRY JR.* Abstract: European-American Mennonites and African-Americans are quite different from one another even though both are minority groups. These differences become especially evident in the issue of assimilation into mainstream American society. Mennonites have traditionally regarded…
Responses to Snyder MICHAEL G. BAYLOR[1] Confessionally and theologically based arguments have recently challenged the dominant historiography of Anabaptism. Since the 1970s, the prevailing interpretation of Anabaptist beginnings has emphasized, in a word, its “polygenesis.” On this view, Anabaptism arose from a variety of separate sources and initially…
IN THIS ISSUE It is one of the great ironies of church history that the Christian tradition most closely linked today to the principle of nonresistance had an acrimonious birth and has been the source of contentious debate for nearly five centuries since its beginnings in the early 1520s. Already…
BOOK REVIEWS Hutterische Konfession und Tradition (1578-1619). Etabliertes Lebens zwischen Ordnung und Ambivalenz. By Astrid von Schlachta. Verffentlichungen des Instituts fr Europische Geschichte 198. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. 2003. Pp. 459. 51 Euros. In this historical dissertation completed at the University of Innsbruck, Astrid von Schlachta analyzes Hutterite…
