BOOK REVIEWS 400 Jahre Mennoniten in Altona und Hamburg: 25. Mai bis 19. August 2001, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. Matthias H. Rauert and Hajo Brandenburg, eds. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. 2001. Pp. 52. 400 Jahre Mennoniten in Altona und Hamburg. Matthias H. Rauert and Thomas…
Mennonite Cookbooks and the Pleasure of Habit REBEKAH TROLLINGER* Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how Mennonite cookbooks reflect and encourage particular responses to the crisis of world hunger and other justice issues related to food. Whereas American culture promotes a compulsive relationship to food, often through the guise of…
A Divided People: The Dissolution of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1990-2002) LAURA NEUFELD* Abstract: In 1999, the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, which united the Canadian and U.S. Mennonite Brethren for over one hundred years, voted to dissolve and divest its ministries to two national conferences.
IN THIS ISSUE In January of 1926, three young professors at Goshen College began to publish a supplement to the student newspaper devoted to topics in Mennonite history, which they called the Review Supplement. Over the course of the next eighty years, The Mennonite Quarterly Review went on to establish…
This Reckless Journey: Immanence and Transcendence in the Poetry of Jean Janzen Todd Davis* Abstract: From her earliest work as a writer, Jean Janzens poetry has explored the incarnational dimension of human existence, moving back and forth between her…
Recent Mennonite Poetry: A Review Essay RHODA JANZEN* I Saw God Dancing. By Cheryl Denise. Telford, Pa.: Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol. 2. 2005. Pp. 90. $12.95. On the Cross: Devotional Poems. By Dallas Wiebe. Telford, Pa.: Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol. 1. 2005. Pp. 96. $12.95. With illustrations…
Contents of Volume LXXXI January 2007 Number One In Memoriam: William E. Keeney, 1922-2006 In This Issue The Mennonite Historical Library and the Renewing of a Tradition John A. Lapp The Persistence of Anabaptism as Vision Gerald Biesecker-Mast New…
BOOK REVIEWS God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas. Ed. L. Gregory Jones, Reinhard Hutter and C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press. 2005. Pp. 336. $39.99. In 2001, Time knighted Stanley Hauerwas ?America’s best theologian.? Did the editors realize the irony of bestowing such an appellation upon…
Peace Theology in Transition: North American Mennonite Peace Studies and Theology, 1906-2006 GAYLE GERBER KOONTZ* Abstract: Mennonite peace theology in the past 100 years shifted from an emphasis on nonresistance and the witness of a set-apart community toward an emphasis on nonviolent resistance and active engagement of the church…
The Mennonite Historical Library and the Renewing of a Tradition JOHN A. LAPP* My remarks are dedicated to the memory of two remarkable contributors to the character and quality of the Mennonite Historical Library. I had the great privilege and pleasure of working with Nelson Springer and John Oyer for…
