Yorifumi Yaguchi: International Mennonite Poet and Prophet of Peace WILBUR BIRKY* Abstract: Yorifumi Yaguchi is a leading Mennonite poet, both in English and Japanese. He is best known in the West for his thirty poems in Three Mennonite Poets (Good Books, 1986), but his published work in English includes nearly…
Three Women Poets and the Beginnings of Mennonite Poetry in the U.S: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, Jean Janzen ANN HOSTETLER* Abstract: This paper explores from a cultural studies perspective the pioneering contributions of three women poets’Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, and Jean Janzen’to a growing twentieth-century…
IN THIS ISSUE Midway through the twentieth century the Mennonite Church in North America faced a critical moment in its history. World War II–‘the ‘Good War”had mobilized the patriotic zeal of the entire nation, forcing Mennonites to articulate anew their understandings of service, nonresistance and…
Contents of Volume LXXVI July 2003 Number Three In This Issue John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic Mark Thiessen Nation John Howard Yoder’s Role in “The Lordship of Christ Over Church and State” Conferences Donald…
Yoder’s Jesus and Economics: The Economics of Jesus or the Economics of Luke’ JOHN ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: In The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder based his interpretation of Jesus’ economic views on a non-critical use of the Gospel of Luke. An analyses of Luke’s redactional tendencies on issues of economics-including…
Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Nonviolence: Was Yoder’s God a Warrior’ RAY C. GINGERICH* Abstract: Yoder placed the nonviolent earthly Jesus at the center of his theological enterprise, offering a sharp critique of Constantinianism and constructing an ethics of nonviolent discipleship. But his legacy leaves us with a warrior…
The Legacy of an Inadequate Christology: Yoder’s Critique of Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture CRAIG A. CARTER* Abstract: H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture has exerted enormous influence on how we conceptualize the relationship between Christianity and culture. It has persuaded many individuals from pietistic, Anabaptist and fundamentalist backgrounds…
John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic MARK THIESSEN NATION* Abstract: During the last half of the twentieth century John Howard Yoder emerged as one of the most influential theologians and ethicists of his generation. In addition to his formidable intellectual gifts, Yoder’s prominence derived in part from his ability to…
Contents of Volume LXXVI April 2003 Number Two In This Issue Retrospect and Apologia Dennis Martin From New Congregations to the Ancient Church A. Orley Swartzentruber Reflections on Growing Up Mennonite in Lancaster County…
Becoming a Mennonite Quaker LOIS FREY* Ten years ago when I was first becoming Quaker and told my older son about what I was doing, he said, ?Oh, Mom, you’ll always be a Mennonite.? In some ways, he was right. Being Mennonite has a very strong cultural as well as…
