July 1999 Of Borders and Boundaries: Reflections on Mennonite Unity and Separation in the Modern World JAMES URRY* Abstract: The writing of national Mennonite histories, such as those recently completed in the United States and Canada, assumes a…
April 1999 Mennonite Debates About Church Architecture In Europe And America: Questions Of History And Theology KEITH L. SPRUNGER Abstract: Mennonite church buildings (or meetinghouses) are traditionally simple and plain. One can find numerous examples of the Mennonite plain architectural…
July 1999 Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History THERON F. SCHLABACH* Abstract. In the early 1940s, a generational transition among historians engaged in Mennonite history produced a fine historiographical debate. In the 1990s another…
April 1999 ANABAPTIST-MENNONITE SPACES AND PLACES OF WORSHIP JOHN M. JANZEN This special issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review explores the Anabaptist perspective on the relationship of worship, broadly defined, to the physical place in which it occurs. Worship here…
October 1999 Orie Benjamin Gerig: Mennonite Rebel, Peace Activist, International Civil Servant, and American Diplomat, 1894-1976 GERLOF D. HOMAN* Abstract: While American Mennonites have been willing to serve in local and state governments they have not generally sought national office or…
October 1999 The Politics of Rudy Wiebe in The Blue Mountains of China ERVIN BECK* Abstract: Although Rudy Wiebe’s novel The Blue Mountains of China was published in 1970, two years before John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus, the novel…
October 1997 NICODEMITES AMONG WÜRTTEMBERG ANABAPTISTS John S. Oyer* In February 1570 regional authorities in the Duchy of Württemberg finally caught up with Hans Jäger, an underground Anabaptist from Vöhringen in the Black Forest of southwestern Württemberg, and reported…
January 1999 MENNONITE-CATHOLIC CONVERSATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA: HISTORY, CONVERGENCES, OPPORTUNITIES IVAN J. KAUFFMAN Abstract: After more than four centuries of dispute, controversy and persecution, Mennonites and Roman Catholics have begun to enter into various kinds of dialogue. This article gives a…
April 1997 In This Issue I can still vividly remember one Sunday evening from my childhood I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time when our church in Holmes County, Ohio rented a projector to show a film on Noah’s…
Contents, April, 1994 Articles (Special Issue featuring papers presented at the Women Doing Theology Conference, sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, June 23-25, 1994 in Bluffton, Ohio) Articles Dorothy Jean Weaver, "On Imitating God and Outwitting Satan: Biblical Perspectives on Forgiveness and…
