Mennonite Quarterly Review

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Mennonite Year in Review: Mennonites in the Year 2000 JOHN A. LAPP* Mennonites in the year 2000, although richly diverse, maintain a conspicuous sense of peoplehood. The Mennonite World Conference (MWC)...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One IN THIS ISSUE To most casual observers, the Amish appear to be a people without a history, frozen in time within the whirl of a changing culture around them. In the opening...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Amish “Mission Movement” and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century STEVE NOLT[*] Abstract: During the middle of the twentieth century a grassroots “mission movement” emerged among Old Order...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three “United Progressive Mennonites”: Bluffton College and Anabaptist Higher Education, 1913-1945 Perry Bush Anabaptist Separation and Arguments Against the Sword in the Schleitheim Brotherly Union Gerald Biesecker-Mast Vondel, Sudermann and Kliewer: Stretching the...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three Vondel, Sudermann and Kliewer: Stretching the Invisible Canon of Mennonite Dramatic Writing LAUREN FRIESEN* Abstract: This essay argues that Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) and Warren Kliewer (1931-1998) should...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three Anabaptist Separation and Arguments Against the Sword in the Schleitheim Brotherly Union GERALD BIESECKER-MAST* Abstract: Recent historical interpretations of Anabaptism have focused both on the diversity of views concerning the sword and...

Dec 05 2000

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 like Goshen and Bethel...

Jun 16 2000

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 Menno-nite...

Jun 16 2000

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 the boundaries of...

Jun 16 2000

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...

Jun 16 2000

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 history....

Jun 16 2000

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....

Jun 16 2000

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 quest...

Jun 07 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIII October 1999 Number Four In This Issue (675) Author Addresses (676) The (Not-so) “Simple Confession” of the Later Swiss Brethren. Part I: Manuscripts and Marpeckites in an Age of Print (677) Arnold Snyder The Politics of...

Jun 07 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIII July 1999 Number Three In This Issue (419) Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History (427) Theron F. Schlabach Historians and the Canadian Mennonite Experience (443) T. D. Regehr The American Mennonite Search for...

Jun 06 2000

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...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXI January 1997 Number Two In This Issue (3) U.S. Mennonite Poetry and Poets: Beyond Dr. Johnson’s Dog (5) Jeff Gundy North American Mennonite Playwrights, 1980-1996 (43) Anna Kreider Juhnke Plain and Fancy: A Review of Research...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXI April 1997 Number Two In This Issue (163) Bakhtin, Boundaries and Bodies (169) Julia Kasdorf The Body Knows as Much as the Soul: On the Human Reality of Being a Writer (189) Rudy Wiebe Spiritual Knowledge,...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXI July 1997 Number Three In This Issue (323) Church-Related Organizations: Mission, Image and Promotion (327) Herman Bontrager Sustainers or Seducers? The Rise and Meaning of Church-Related Institutions (345) Donald F. Durnbaugh A.M. Fire and Storm [Insurance]:...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXI October 1997 Number Four In This Issue (483) News and Announcements (486) Nicodemites Among Württemberg Anabaptists (487) John S. Oyer Anabaptism, Anticlericalism and the Creation of a Protestant Clergy (515) D. Jonathan Grieser Politicized Service and...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIII January 1999 Number One In Memoriam: Willard H. Smith (1900-1998) and J. A. Oosterbaan (1910-1998) (3) Author Addresses (6) In This Issue (7) Guy F. Hershberger vis–vis J. Lawarence Burkholder: Irreconcilable Approaches to Christian Ethics? (9)...

Jun 06 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIII April 1999 Number Two Author Addresses (147) News and Announcements (148) In This Issue (149) Anabaptist-Mennonite Spaces and Places of Worship (151) John Janzen Christian Meeting Places, Constantinian Basilicas and Anabaptist Restorationism (167) Graydon Snyder Building...

Jan 16 2000

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 sobered the...

Jun 16 1999

January 1999 RENEWING THE CONVERSATION: MENNONITE RESPONSES TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL EARL ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: Mennonite responses to the Second Vatican Council as reported in North American Mennonite publications indicated a new spirit of openness among Mennonites toward Catholics. Mennonite...