IN THIS ISSUE In June of 1906 the Goshen College Alumni Board took action to create a special set of shelves in the college library devoted to Anabaptist-Mennonite history. The handful of books that graced those shelves marked the beginning of the Mennonite Historical Library. Since those humble origins 100…
Contents of Volume LXXXI April 2007 Number Two In This Issue Bush Fever: Amish and Old Order Mennonites in the 2004 Presidential Campaign Donald B. Kraybill and Kyle C. Kopko Reformation-Era Polemics Against Anabaptist Oath Refusal Craig S. Farmer The…
The Dichotomy Between Faithfulness and Effectiveness in the Peace Theology of John Howard Yoder TOM HARDER* Abstract: In his groundbreaking essays and books, John Howard Yoder consistently argued for the primacy of faithfulness over effectiveness in a theology and ethics of peace. At the same time, however, he also argued…
BOOK REVIEWS History & Ideology. American Mennonite Identity Definition through History. By Rodney James Sawatsky. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press. 2005. Pp. 216. $21, U.S.; $24.50, Can. The story around this publication is almost as interesting as the story inside. Three historical moments, separated by roughly thirty years each, mark this…
IN THIS ISSUE If it is true, in a phrase adapted from William Shakespeare, that ?politics makes strange bedfellows,? then perhaps no one should have been surprised by a wire-service photograph from the 2004 presidential election that depicted a group of plain-garbed Amishmen enthusiastically greeting President Bush at an airport…
BOOK REVIEWS Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. By Wesley J. Bergen. J.S.O.T. Supplement 417. Playing the Texts 9. London: T&T Clark. 2005. Pp. 140. $120. In the seven chapters of his book, Wesley Bergen, an ordained Mennonite minister, discusses the underappreciated book of Leviticus, focusing on chapters 1-7 and…
Teaching Position or Conversation Starter’ The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective and the New Mennonites of Southern California JEFF WRIGHT* Abstract: The Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference expanded rapidly through a strategy of leadership-based church planting in Southern California throughout the latter half of the 1990s. Nearly all of…
The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective as a Living Letter THOMAS FINGER* Abstract: A confession of faith is not a static collection of statements, but an instrument for “confessing,” a dynamic activity that expresses commitments, actualizes self- and group-identities, and brings divine reality near. After considering four…
IN THIS ISSUE Confessions of faith have played an ambiguous, often-contested role throughout the sweep of Anabaptist-Mennonite history. On the one hand, strong voices within the tradition have consistently raised doubts about the value of confessional statements, albeit for very different reasons. The spiritualist impulses evident in the Dutch Collegiant…
Contents of Volume LXXX October 2006 Number Four In This Issue The Birth and Evolution of Swiss Anabaptism, 1520-1530 C. Arnold Snyder Responses to Snyder’s “The Birth and Evolution of Swiss Anabaptism” Michael Baylor Gerald Biesecker-Mast…
