Contemporary Counsel on Mennonite Engagement with the State Anabaptist Advocacy J. DARYL BYLER* For a variety of reasons, some Mennonites choose not to vote or to engage in the political process. Others believe this is an important part of our faith witness. This essay assumes that some form of…
Mennonites, African-Americans, the U.S. Constitution and the Problem of Assimilation LEE ROY BERRY JR.* Abstract: European-American Mennonites and African-Americans are quite different from one another even though both are minority groups. These differences become especially evident in the issue of assimilation into mainstream American society. Mennonites have traditionally regarded…
Responses to Snyder MICHAEL G. BAYLOR[1] Confessionally and theologically based arguments have recently challenged the dominant historiography of Anabaptism. Since the 1970s, the prevailing interpretation of Anabaptist beginnings has emphasized, in a word, its “polygenesis.” On this view, Anabaptism arose from a variety of separate sources and initially…
IN THIS ISSUE It is one of the great ironies of church history that the Christian tradition most closely linked today to the principle of nonresistance had an acrimonious birth and has been the source of contentious debate for nearly five centuries since its beginnings in the early 1520s. Already…
BOOK REVIEWS Hutterische Konfession und Tradition (1578-1619). Etabliertes Lebens zwischen Ordnung und Ambivalenz. By Astrid von Schlachta. Verffentlichungen des Instituts fr Europische Geschichte 198. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. 2003. Pp. 459. 51 Euros. In this historical dissertation completed at the University of Innsbruck, Astrid von Schlachta analyzes Hutterite…
Contents of Volume LXXX January 2006 Number One In This Issue Solae (Quae’) Scripturae: Anabaptists and the Apocrypha Jonathan Seiling Ludwig Hätzer’s “Preface” to Baruch, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon: Introduction and Translation Jonathan Seiling, trans. Toward a Theology…
BOOK REVIEWS Anabaptist-Mennonite Confessions of Faith: The Development of a Tradition. By Karl Koop. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press; co-published with Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press. 2004. Pp.178. $22, Can. Based on Karl Koop’s 1999 doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of St. Michael’s College and the Department of Theology of the…
IN THIS ISSUE Few topics in the Reformation era of the sixteenth century were more central-or more contested-than the place of Scripture in Christian faith and practice. Luther’s famous appeal to “Scripture alone” (sola scriptura) proved to be a powerful rallying cry, attracting a wide range of reformers who embraced…
Research Note: Further Notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite Anarchist STEVEN KENT SMITH* Readers of a 1908 edition of Emma Goldman’s journal, Mother Earth,[1] may have seen this announcement: ATTENTION A few comrades in New York have started a movement for the purpose of establishing a colony, perhaps…
Toward a Theology for Conflict Transformation: Learnings from John Howard Yoder MARK THIESSEN NATION* Abstract: Conflict transformation is currently one of the cutting-edge disciplines in relation to peacemaking, and one in which Mennonites are fully engaged. Therefore, it seems reasonable to ask how the writings of John Howard Yoder-the most…
