Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three “United Progressive Mennonites”: Bluffton College and Anabaptist Higher Education, 1913-1945 PERRY BUSH* Abstract: In contrast to the more established narratives of Mennonite higher education as represented by schools…
April 2000 “On Civilizing the Nogais": Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 JOHN R. STAPLES* Abstract: Mennonites lived alongside Nogais-semi-nomadic Tatar pastoralists-in the Molochna region of southern Ukraine from 1803, when Mennonites first arrived, until 1860, when the Nogais departed. In…
January 2000 “Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good”: How Menno Caused a Reformed Pastor to Travel from Murten to Moravia HANSPETER JECKER* Abstract: Jakob Gelthuser, a Reformed pastor from the Swiss village of Murten, broke…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2000 Number One Author Addresses (6) “Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good”: How Menno Caused a Reformed Pastor to Travel from Murten to Moravia (7) Hanspeter Jecker “Searching Through the Nations”: Tasks and Problems of…
April 2000 Research note: Identifying Jacob Ammann JOHN HPPI* Jacob Ammann, whose reform movement in Alsace, Switzerland and the Palatinate led to a well-known and painful schism in the 1690s, is one of the most controversial figures in Anabaptist…
April 2000 Research Note: On the Trail of Jacob Ammann MARK FURNER* During several months of combing through the Bernese government council minutes from the time following the repression of Anabaptism, I came across an early reference to Jakob Ammann.
January 2000 THE MENNONITE YEAR IN REVIEW Purple Clematis and Yellow Pine: On Cemeteries, Irony and Difference MARLENE EPP* Although I am a historian, I am not drawn to cemeteries. I rarely visit them, either as a researcher in…
Contents of Volume LXXIV April 2000 Number Two Author Addresses (226) In This Issue (227) "On Civilizing the Nogais”: Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 (229) John R. Staples The Schwenckfeldians in Strasbourg, 1533-1562: A Prosopographical Survey (257) John Derksen The War of…
January 2000 THE MENNONITE YEAR IN REVIEW Minding Us Mennonites PHYLLIS PELLMAN GOOD* I think of us Mennonites as a rather muscular group-small, scattered, varied, but still making some difference in the world. So I was a little…
