Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Nonviolence: Was Yoder’s God a Warrior’ RAY C. GINGERICH* Abstract: Yoder placed the nonviolent earthly Jesus at the center of his theological enterprise, offering a sharp critique of Constantinianism and constructing an ethics of nonviolent discipleship. But his legacy leaves us with a warrior…
The Legacy of an Inadequate Christology: Yoder’s Critique of Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture CRAIG A. CARTER* Abstract: H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture has exerted enormous influence on how we conceptualize the relationship between Christianity and culture. It has persuaded many individuals from pietistic, Anabaptist and fundamentalist backgrounds…
John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic MARK THIESSEN NATION* Abstract: During the last half of the twentieth century John Howard Yoder emerged as one of the most influential theologians and ethicists of his generation. In addition to his formidable intellectual gifts, Yoder’s prominence derived in part from his ability to…
Contents of Volume LXXVI April 2003 Number Two In This Issue Retrospect and Apologia Dennis Martin From New Congregations to the Ancient Church A. Orley Swartzentruber Reflections on Growing Up Mennonite in Lancaster County…
Becoming a Mennonite Quaker LOIS FREY* Ten years ago when I was first becoming Quaker and told my older son about what I was doing, he said, ?Oh, Mom, you’ll always be a Mennonite.? In some ways, he was right. Being Mennonite has a very strong cultural as well as…
Reflections on Growing up Mennonite in Lancaster County MARY JEAN KRAYBILL* The Mennonite church where my family attended was more than ten miles from our home, which seemed like a vast distance to me as a child whose primary activities unfolded within a two-mile radius of my house. Nevertheless, every…
On Being a Mennonite Catholic IVAN J. KAUFFMAN* When I told my wife, whose ancestors have all been Amish or Mennonite since at least the seventeenth century, that I was becoming a Catholic, she answered that it was impossible. Although she and our children later joined me in becoming Catholic,…
Retrospect and Apologia DENNIS D. MARTIN* RADICAL REFORMATION AND THE SEARCH FOR CREDIBLE RADICES To explain why I am no longer a Mennonite I must begin with whether and to what degree I ever was a Mennonite. Although I am descended from David Martin of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Mennonite…
IN THIS ISSUE Few convictions are more central to Anabaptist-Mennonite theology than the principle of voluntary, or believer’s, baptism. Becoming a Christian, argued the radical reformers of the sixteenth century and countless believers after them, was a genuine choice-a conscious decision to accept God’s gift of grace, to earnestly follow…
Thinking Theologically about War against Iraq TED KOONTZ* From: The Mennonite Quarterly Review 77 (January, 2003), 93-108 Abstract: It is helpful to think in terms of a “first language” and a “second language” in seeking to address questions of war and peace. The ability to speak a second…
