Mennonite Quarterly Review

Jul 05 2008

Contents of Volume LXXXII April 2008 Number Two In This Issue Moving Beyond Charisma in Civil Rights Scholarship: Vincent Harding’sSojourn with the Mennonites, 1958-1966 Tobin Miller Shearer The Weaverland Mennonite Schools and the Negotiation of an Old Order Identity Karen...

Jul 05 2008

BOOK REVIEWS A Gentle Wind of God: The Influence of the East Africa Revival. By Richard K. MacMaster, with Donald R. Jacobs. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press. 2006. Pp. 404. $14.99, U.S.; $18.79, Can. A book on the ?reverse mission? of...

Jul 05 2008

IN THIS ISSUE In his landmark book The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today (Basic Books, 2005), Charles Marsh argues that the earliest goal of the Civil Rights Movement was not merely...

Jul 05 2008

Understanding the Amish in Twentieth-First Century America PAUL S. BOYER* Abstract: This essay examines Amish negotiations with modernity and society’s view of the Amish. Far from categorically rejecting the modern order, the Amish successfully participate in the larger economy and...

Jul 05 2008

IN THIS ISSUE In the two decades spanning the movie "Witness" (1985)–which first introduced the Amish to a mass audience–and the dramatic story of Amish forgiveness following the Nickel Mines school shootings in 2006, the Amish have become a familiar...

Jul 05 2008

Contents of Volume LXXXII July 2008 Number Three In This Issue In Memoriam: Jean Séguy (1925-2007) Understanding the Amish in Twenty-First Century America Paul S. Boyer Who Are the Real Amish’: Rethinking Diversity and Identity Among a Separate People Steven...

Jul 05 2008

BOOK REVIEWS Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities. By Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. 244. $48. Plain Diversity provides a new approach to the study of the Old Order...

Jul 05 2008

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Papers: ?Anabaptist Convictions after Marpeck’?an inter-disciplinary conference to be held at Bluffton University, June 26-28, 2009. Proposals are invited for papers that address the emergence and development of Anabaptist convictions in light of the work...

Jun 15 2008

Contents of Volume LXXXII October 2008 Number Four In This Issue In Memoriam: Albert N. Keim (1935-2008) Reformation Publishing and Anabaptist Propaganda: Two Contrasting Communication Strategies for the Spread of the Anabaptist Message in the Early Days of the Swiss...

Apr 04 2008

Contents of Volume LXXXI July 2007 Number Three In This Issue The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective as a Living Letter Thomas Finger Christ, Canon and Confession: The Bible and the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective...

Apr 04 2008

A Genealogy of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective SUSAN BIESECKER-MAST* Abstract: This essay offers a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. Thus, it provides an account of the origins...

Dec 13 2007

Contents of Volume LXXXI October 2007 Number Four In This Issue Leading a Divided People: The Dissolution of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1990-2002) Laura Neufeld Autobiography as Theology: Menno Simons’s “Confession of My Enlightenment, Conversion and Calling”...

Dec 13 2007

BOOK REVIEWS 400 Jahre Mennoniten in Altona und Hamburg: 25. Mai bis 19. August 2001, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. Matthias H. Rauert and Hajo Brandenburg, eds. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. 2001. Pp. 52. 400 Jahre...

Dec 13 2007

Mennonite Cookbooks and the Pleasure of Habit REBEKAH TROLLINGER* Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how Mennonite cookbooks reflect and encourage particular responses to the crisis of world hunger and other justice issues related to food. Whereas American culture promotes...

Dec 13 2007

A Divided People: The Dissolution of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1990-2002) LAURA NEUFELD* Abstract: In 1999, the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, which united the Canadian and U.S. Mennonite Brethren for over one hundred years, voted...

Dec 13 2007

IN THIS ISSUE In January of 1926, three young professors at Goshen College began to publish a supplement to the student newspaper devoted to topics in Mennonite history, which they called the Review Supplement. Over the course of the next...

Jun 16 2007

This Reckless Journey: Immanence and Transcendence in the Poetry of Jean Janzen Todd Davis* Abstract: From her earliest work as a writer, Jean Janzens poetry has explored the incarnational dimension of human existence, moving back and forth between her strong...

Jun 11 2007

Recent Mennonite Poetry: A Review Essay RHODA JANZEN* I Saw God Dancing. By Cheryl Denise. Telford, Pa.: Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol. 2. 2005. Pp. 90. $12.95. On the Cross: Devotional Poems. By Dallas Wiebe. Telford, Pa.: Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol....

Jun 11 2007

Contents of Volume LXXXI January 2007 Number One In Memoriam: William E. Keeney, 1922-2006 In This Issue The Mennonite Historical Library and the Renewing of a Tradition John A. Lapp The Persistence of Anabaptism as Vision Gerald Biesecker-Mast New Directions...

Jun 11 2007

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...

Jun 11 2007

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...

Jun 11 2007

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...

Jun 11 2007

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...

Jun 11 2007

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...