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…
IN THIS ISSUE In June of 1906 the Goshen College Alumni Board took action to create a special set of shelves in the college library devoted to Anabaptist-Mennonite history. The handful of books that graced those shelves marked the beginning of the Mennonite Historical Library. Since those humble origins 100…
Contents of Volume LXXXI April 2007 Number Two In This Issue Bush Fever: Amish and Old Order Mennonites in the 2004 Presidential Campaign Donald B. Kraybill and Kyle C. Kopko Reformation-Era Polemics Against Anabaptist Oath Refusal Craig S. Farmer The…
The Dichotomy Between Faithfulness and Effectiveness in the Peace Theology of John Howard Yoder TOM HARDER* Abstract: In his groundbreaking essays and books, John Howard Yoder consistently argued for the primacy of faithfulness over effectiveness in a theology and ethics of peace. At the same time, however, he also argued…
BOOK REVIEWS History & Ideology. American Mennonite Identity Definition through History. By Rodney James Sawatsky. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press. 2005. Pp. 216. $21, U.S.; $24.50, Can. The story around this publication is almost as interesting as the story inside. Three historical moments, separated by roughly thirty years each, mark this…
IN THIS ISSUE If it is true, in a phrase adapted from William Shakespeare, that ?politics makes strange bedfellows,? then perhaps no one should have been surprised by a wire-service photograph from the 2004 presidential election that depicted a group of plain-garbed Amishmen enthusiastically greeting President Bush at an airport…
BOOK REVIEWS Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. By Wesley J. Bergen. J.S.O.T. Supplement 417. Playing the Texts 9. London: T&T Clark. 2005. Pp. 140. $120. In the seven chapters of his book, Wesley Bergen, an ordained Mennonite minister, discusses the underappreciated book of Leviticus, focusing on chapters 1-7 and…
Teaching Position or Conversation Starter’ The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective and the New Mennonites of Southern California JEFF WRIGHT* Abstract: The Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference expanded rapidly through a strategy of leadership-based church planting in Southern California throughout the latter half of the 1990s. Nearly all of…
