Contents of Volume LXXV January 2001 Number One In Memoriam: George Hunston Williams, 1914-2000 In This Issue Author Addresses The Amish “Mission Movement” and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century Steve Nolt The Uncovering of the Babylonian Whore:…
Contents of Volume LXXV October 2001 Number Four Author Addresses In Memoriam: John A. Hostetler In This Issue John D. Roth The Anabaptists and the Jews: The Case of Htzer, Denck and the Worms Prophets…
John Knox Confronts the Anabaptists: The Intellectual Aspects of His Encounter RICHARD G. KYLE* Abstract: Along with the other Protestant Reformers, John Knox waged a war against two fronts-the Catholic establishment and the left wing radicals. While his great enemy was the Catholic Church, recognized by law and backed by…
IN THIS ISSUE James Beck opens this issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review with an investigation into the Jewish roots of the Worms Prophets (Wormser Propheten)-a 1527 German translation of the Old Testament Prophets by Ludwig Hätzer and Hans Denck. Already in 1530 Martin Luther claimed…
Eighteenth-Century Anabaptists in the Margravate of Baden and Neighboring Territories MICHAELA SCHMLZ-HBERLEIN AND MARK HBERLEIN* Abstract: Throughout the eighteenth century, Anabaptist tenants farmed a number of large impartible estates in the margravate of Baden-Durlach, a small principality in the upper Rhine Valley. Their management of these estates, which belonged to…
The Varieties of Mennonite Peacemaking: A Review Essay J. ROBERT CHARLES Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism. By Leo Driedger and Donald B. Kraybill. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. 1994. Pp. 344. $14.95. From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding. Edited by…
IN THIS ISSUE For centuries, groups descended from the Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century have stubbornly promoted the cause of pacifism within the Christian faith and to the broader world. To be sure, their witness to nonviolence has not always been coherently argued or consistently practiced, but for nearly…
From the Tower of Babel to the Peace of Jesus Christ: Christological, Ecclesiological and Missiological Foundations for Peacemaking NEAL BLOUGH* Abstract: The first part of this article is an attempt to look at biblical salvation narratives in light of the question of globalization and peacemaking. The Tower of Babel story…
From Engaged Social Activists to Disengaged Academicians? Purported Generational Shifts among Teaching Faculties at U.S. Mennonite Colleges KEITH GRABER MILLER* Abstract: Through examining recent faculty social activism at four U.S. Mennonite colleges, in comparison with faculty activism of the 1960s and 1970s, this paper identifies shifts in professors’…
Contents of Volume LXXV April 2001 Number Two In This Issue: Family, Community and Discipleship in the Anabaptist- Mennonite Tradition John D. Roth A Christian Social Perspective on the Family Lisa Sowell Cahill Innocence, Nurture and Vigilance: The Child in the Work…
