Mennonite Quarterly Review

Feb 13 2006

Sebastian Franck in Strasbourg GEOFFREY DIPPLE* Abstract: Pilgram Marpeck’s confrontation with the Spiritualizers in Strasbourg between 1529 and 1531 is regarded as a defining moment in the history of the early Anabaptist movement. This study approaches this conflict from the...

Jan 03 2006

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...

Jan 03 2006

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...

Jan 03 2006

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...

Jan 03 2006

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...

Jan 03 2006

IN THIS ISSUE Few issues have polarized American culture more deeply-and with it, the bonds of fellowship within the Christian community-than that of abortion. From the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 to the most recent Supreme Court appointment,...

Jan 03 2006

Contents of Volume LXXIX October 2005 Number Four In This Issue In Memoriam: Donald F. Durnbaugh, 1927-2005 Jeffrey Bach Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in the Peace Tradition Perspective: A Critical-Constructive Response to the MC USA Statement on Abortion...

Oct 04 2005

Contents of Volume LXXVI October 2002 Number Four In This Issue Key Decisions in the Lives of the Old Order Amish: Joining the Church and Migrating to Another Settlement Lawrence P. Greksa and Jill E. Korbin Worldly Preachers and True...

Oct 04 2005

Contents of Volume LXXVII January 2003 Number One Author Addresses In This Issue Mennonite World Conference, 1925-2000: From Euro-American Conference to Worldwide Communion John A. Lapp and Ed van Straten A Mennonite-Christian View of Suffering: The Case of Russian Mennonites...

Sep 09 2005

The Hutterites and the Bruderhof: The Relationship Between an Old Older Religious Society and a Twentieth-Century Communal Group ROD JANZEN* Abstract: The twentieth-century merger of the Hutterites, an old order Anabaptist group established in the 1520s, and the Bruderhof communities,...

Jun 04 2005

Contents of Volume LXXIX July 2005 Number Three In This Issue Author Addresses In Memoriam: Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, 1926-2005 John Howard Yoder’s “Alternative Perspective” on Christian-Jewish Relations Alain Epp Weaver The Publications of John A. Hostetler: A Bibliography David L....

Jun 04 2005

BOOK REVIEWS From Kleefeld with Love. Edited and translated by John Harder. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press. 2003. Pp.198. $22 Can. In the 1980s I became concerned about the fate of the letters written by Mennonites in the Soviet Union to...

Jun 04 2005

Review Essay: Shawn Francis Peters, The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003) LEE ROY BERRY, JR.* The Yoder Case recounts how the United States Supreme Court resolved the conflict between Wisconsin educational...

Jun 04 2005

Benes Optt, “On Baptism and the Lord’s Supper”: An Utraquist Reformer’s Opinion of Pilgram Marpeck’s Vermahnung MARTIN ROTHKEGEL* The Utraquist priest Benes Optt (d. 1559) was a prominent advocate of reform within the Utraquist Church in Moravia. Theologically, he formed...

Jun 04 2005

John Howard Yoder’s “Alternative Perspective” on Christian-Jewish Relations ALAIN EPP WEAVER* Abstract: The late John Howard Yoder’s posthumously published essays on Jewish-Christian relations display the breadth and depth of his scholarship. In them Yoder integrated biblical, historical and theological scholarship...

Jun 04 2005

The Kitchenhood of all Believers: A Journey into the Discourse of Mennonite Cookbooks MATTHEW BAILEY-DICK* Abstract: This paper brings together insights from cultural anthropology, religious studies and Mennonite studies in an effort to uncover the ways in which Mennonite cookbooks...

Jun 04 2005

Contents of Volume LXXIX April 2005 Number Two In Memoriam: Sjouke Voolstra, 1942-2004 In Memoriam: J. Winfield Fretz, 1910-2005 In This Issue The Kitchenhood of all Believers: A Journey into the Discourse of Mennonite Cookbooks Matthew Bailey-Dick From Cross to...

Jun 04 2005

Review Essay: Fernando Enns on Mennonite Ecumenism HELMUT HARDER* Fernando Enns, Friedenskirche in der kumene: Mennonitische Wurzeln einer Ethik der Gewaltfreiheit. [English translation: The Peace Church in Ecumenical Context: Mennonite Roots of an Ethic of Nonviolence.] Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2003....

Jun 04 2005

BOOK REVIEWS Perry Bush. Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. Pp. 362. $48. This is a mature work, even if it began as the author’s Ph.D. dissertation. Indeed it is a...

Jun 04 2005

From Cross to Cross-Stitch: The Ascendancy of the Quilt DANIEL BORN* Abstract: Perceptions of the quilt within the Mennonite community have changed over time. Arguably, the quilt has not only shaped what can be called the Mennonite imagination-that field of...

Jun 04 2005

Contents of Volume LXXIX January 2005 Number One In Memoriam: Nelson Springer, 1915-2004 In This Issue Ritual As My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account John Rempel The Origins and Development of Anointing Among Nineteenth-Century Mennonites Mark R. Wenger The Performance...

Dec 17 2004

"Molochna 2004: Mennonites and Their Neighbours (1804-2004)": An International Conference, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, June 2-5, 2004 PETER LETKEMANN* The year 2004 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Molochna Mennonite settlement in southern Russia (present-day Ukraine). To mark this...

Dec 17 2004

BOOK REVIEWS The Dogmatic Imagination: The Dynamics of Christian Belief. By A. James Reimer. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press. 2003. $9.99, U.S.; $15.79, Can. James Reimer boldly titled this slim collection of essays The Dogmatic Imagination in an attempt to ?counter...

Dec 17 2004

Ritual as My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account JOHN REMPEL* Abstract: This article addresses the enduring ambivalence in believers churches concerning sacraments. Since their beginning, they have feared that outward forms substitute for inward experience. At the same time they...