Mennonite Quarterly Review

Dec 17 2004

IN THIS ISSUE Twice a year-at Easter and again in the fall-our small Mennonite congregation in central Ohio interrupted the routine flow of the Sunday morning service to celebrate the Lord’s Supper and the ritual of footwashing. The services clearly...

Dec 17 2004

The Origins and Development of Anointing Among Nineteenth-Century Mennonites MARK R. WENGER* Abstract: The rite of anointing the sick with oil for healing, based on James 5:14-16, was generally not practiced among Mennonites until the late nineteenth century. Documentary evidence...

Nov 18 2004

Contents of Volume LXXVIII October 2004 Number Four In This Issue “Mista Mid-nights”: Mennonites and Race in Mississippi David R. Swartz “Other Sheep Have I”: Nineteenth-Century Quaker and Mennonite Intervisitations Edsel Burdge Jr. The Way to the City of Peace:...

Nov 17 2004

IN THIS ISSUE During the second half of the twentieth century Mennonites found themselves pulled into a nationwide debate about race relations and civil rights that vividly reflected the turmoil of the period. David R. Swartz, a graduate student in...

Oct 19 2004

"As You Go": John Howard Yoder as a Mission Theologian JOON-SIK PARK[?]  Abstract: In this essay, I intend to portray John Howard Yoder as a mission theologian who consistently turned to the Scriptures and to the Radical Reformation tradition for...

Oct 19 2004

BOOK REVIEWS Reading the Anabaptist Bible: Reflections for Every Day of the Year. Edited by C. Arnold Snyder and Galen A. Peters. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press and Herald Press. 2002. Pp. 425. $29, U.S.; $38, Can. Even as a child,...

Oct 19 2004

A Neo-Anabaptist Approach to Missions: Ralph and Genevieve Buckwalter and the Hokkaido Mennonite Church, 1949-1980 EMILY HERSHBERGER* Abstract: Ralph and Genevieve Buckwalter’s approach to Mennonite missionary service in Hokkaido, Japan, embodied an emerging neo-Anabaptist vision of missions that stood in...

Oct 19 2004

Review Essay: Christology in the Political Theology of Oliver O’Donovan PAUL DOERKSEN* Abstract: Jesus Christ plays a central role for Oliver O’Donovan’s Christian ethics generally, as he sees the resurrection as the basis for moral action and as the vindication...

Oct 19 2004

IN THIS ISSUE As the U.S. presidential election campaign begins to heat up and public debate regarding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to divide the country, the question of Mennonite involvement in politics once again calls for...

Oct 19 2004

Contents of Volume LXXVIII April 2004 Number Two In This Issue Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam Bookseller: Preaching, Publishing and the Mennonite Enlightenment Keith L. Sprunger Vistula Delta Mennonites Encounter German Nationalism, 1813-1820 Mark Jantzen Thinking Through Jon Sobrino’s “Rethinking” of Martyrdom...

Oct 19 2004

A New Paradigm in Anabaptist/Mennonite Historiography’ JAMES M. STAYER* Eifriger als Zwingli. Die frhe Tuferbewegung in der Schweiz. By Andrea Strbind. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2003. Pp. 617. Andrea Strbind describes herself as a church historian and Baptist theologian linked...

Oct 19 2004

Cultural Attitudes in Western Christianity Toward the Community of Goods in Acts 2 and 4 RETA HALTEMAN FINGER* Abstract: In Acts 2 and 4, the Lukan author summarizes the nature of the Jerusalem church by describing a community of shared...

Oct 19 2004

BOOK REVIEWS Biblical Concordance of the Swiss Brethren, 1540. Anabaptist Texts in Translation, vol. 2. Translated by Gilbert Fast and Galen A. Peters, introduction by Joe Springer, edited by C. Arnold Snyder. Kitchener, Ont., and Scottdale, Pa.: Pandora Press and...

Oct 19 2004

Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam Bookseller: Preaching, Publishing and the Mennonite Enlightenment KEITH L. SPRUNGER* Abstract: Frans Houttuyn, disciple of Newton and other Enlightenment thinkers, was an eighteenth-century Mennonite bookseller, publisher and preacher of Amsterdam. His bookshop, the “Isaac Newton,” was a...

Oct 19 2004

IN THIS ISSUE Although many contemporary Mennonites participate vigorously in the economics, culture and politics of modern life, memories of an identity defined by their separation from the “world” persist, fueled by stories of persecution and an on-going theological commitment...

Oct 19 2004

BOOK REVIEWS A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union 1789-1923. By David G. Rempel with Cornelia Rempel Carlson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. 356. $70, Can. The noted Mennonite historian David G. Rempel worked on...

Oct 19 2004

"Mista Mid-nights": Mennonites and Race in Mississippi DAVID R. SWARTZ* Abstract: The racially charged atmosphere of Mississippi in the 1960s saw Mennonites respond by defending segregation, by warning against the dangers of civil rights demonstrations and by increasing evangelism among...

Oct 19 2004

The Way to the City of Peace: The Anabaptist Utopia of Pieter Pietersz TOM HARDER* Abstract: The Way to the City of Peace, written in 1625 by the Waterlander Mennonite minister Pieter Pietersz, was one of the earliest books in...

Dec 17 2003

Contents of Volume LXXV October 2003 Number Four Tribute to Ervin Beck In This Issue Postmodern Rhapsody: Faithful Negotiations in the Poetry of Jeff Gundy Todd Davis Coming Into Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the Beginning of Mennonite Poetry...

Dec 17 2003

BLUE SONG For Ervin Beck, upon his retirement Walking down the west side of this hill through maple and beech, you see the river beyond the river grass, wind blowing along its top like a child’s hand as he waves...

Dec 17 2003

IN THIS ISSUE The essays in this issue of MQR were originally read as papers at “Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference” held October 24-27, 2002 at Goshen College, co-sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College and the English Department of Goshen...

Dec 17 2003

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LXXVII 2003 JANUARY Author Addresses 3 In This Issue 5 Mennonite World Conference, 1925-2000: From Euro-American Conference to Worldwide Communion John A. Lapp and Ed van Straten 7 A Mennonite-Christian View of Suffering: The Case of Russian...

Dec 17 2003

BOOK REVIEWS The Case of Lena S. By David Bergen. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 2002. Pp. 286. $32.99. David Bergen’s third novel takes it title from a poem penned by its main character, a teenager, Mason Crowe, whose poetic sensibility...

Dec 17 2003

Harry Loewen: A Tribute Paul Tiessen When I arrived as an undergraduate at the Mennonite Brethren College of Arts in Winnipeg in 1964-65, only a year or two after Rudy Wiebe had been delicately shown the road out of town,...