Contents of Volume LXXVI April 2002 Number Two In This Issue John D. Roth Historical Roots of a Post-Gulag Theology for Russian Mennonites Walter Sawatsky John Howard Yoder’s Pedagogical Approach: A Just War Tradition with Teeth and a…
Contents of Volume LXXVI January 2002 Number One In Memoriam: Samme Zijlstra, 1953-2001 In This Issue John D. Roth From the Tower of Babel to the Peace of Jesus Christ: Christological, Ecclesiological and Missiological Foundations for Peacemaking…
The Mennonite Year in Review “They Left Everything and Followed Him”: A Year of Finding a New Way to Community ROBERT RHODES[*] Jesus said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” . . . When they had done…
Mennonite World Conference 1925-2000: From Euro-American Conference to Worldwide Communion JOHN A. LAPP AND ED VAN STRATEN* Abstract: In 1925 Mennonites in Europe began a series of meetings they called Mennonite World Conference (MWC). They intended these occasional meetings to deepen fraternal ties, commemorate shared histories and strengthen common spiritual…
Atonement, Violence and the Will of God: A Sympathetic Response to J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement CHRISTOPHER D. MARSHALL* Abstract: In the past generation, criticism of “satisfaction” theologies of atonement has grown in intensity, especially among feminist, womanist and black theologians. Mennonite theologian J. Denny Weaver has recently…
IN THIS ISSUE When future historians write the history of the Mennonite church in the twentieth century one theme will undoubtedly loom large: in the relatively short space of a century, the composition of the denomination has shifted from a largely Germanic sub-culture rooted in Europe and North America to…
The “Green Hell” Becomes Home: Mennonites in Paraguay as Described in the Writings of Peter P. Klassen A Review Essay GERHARD REIMER* Kaputi Mennonita, eine friedliche Begegnung im Chacokrieg. Collected and edited by Peter P. Klassen. Filadelfia, Paraguay: n.p. 1975. Pp. 166. Immer kreisen die Geier: Ein…
Not Pledging as Liturgy: Lessons from Karl Barth and American Mennonites on Refusing National Oaths JOHN PERRY* Abstract: Controversy over whether Christians may offer national oaths-such as Barth’s refusal of Hitler’s loyalty oath and the Mennonite debate about the Pledge of Allegiance-can help the church better understand its relation…
Key Decisions in the Lives of the Old Order Amish: Joining the Church and Migrating to Another Settlement LAWRENCE P. GREKSA AND JILL E. KORBIN* Abstract: The rates at which adult children migrate to other Amish settlements and decide to leave the Amish church were derived from the 1993 directory…
IN THIS ISSUE Outsiders observing the Amish through the prism of tourist literature or other forms of popular media often have the impression that the Amish live in a world of few meaningful choices-that the weight of tradition or the pressures to conform to community standards leave no room for…
