Ritual as My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account JOHN REMPEL* Abstract: This article addresses the enduring ambivalence in believers churches concerning sacraments. Since their beginning, they have feared that outward forms substitute for inward experience. At the same time they possess a rich ritual life. After describing the nature of…
IN THIS ISSUE Twice a year-at Easter and again in the fall-our small Mennonite congregation in central Ohio interrupted the routine flow of the Sunday morning service to celebrate the Lord’s Supper and the ritual of footwashing. The services clearly followed a pattern, comforting in its predictability. Yet, from a…
The Origins and Development of Anointing Among Nineteenth-Century Mennonites MARK R. WENGER* Abstract: The rite of anointing the sick with oil for healing, based on James 5:14-16, was generally not practiced among Mennonites until the late nineteenth century. Documentary evidence suggests that early Anabaptists joined other reformers in rejecting anointing…
Contents of Volume LXXVIII October 2004 Number Four In This Issue “Mista Mid-nights”: Mennonites and Race in Mississippi David R. Swartz “Other Sheep Have I”: Nineteenth-Century Quaker and Mennonite Intervisitations Edsel Burdge Jr.
IN THIS ISSUE During the second half of the twentieth century Mennonites found themselves pulled into a nationwide debate about race relations and civil rights that vividly reflected the turmoil of the period. David R. Swartz, a graduate student in the history department at the…
"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…
