Mennonite Quarterly Review

Dec 17 2003

The Construction of Mennonite/Amish Character in Novels by John Updike and Denis Johnson DANIEL W. LEHMAN* Abstract: Mennonite and Amish characters play small but crucial roles in the best-known novels of John Updike and Denis Johnson, two celebrated contemporary writers...

Dec 17 2003

Resolving Dualisms in David Bergen’s Sitting Opposite My Brother ERVIN BECK* Abstract: The short stories in David Bergen’s first book of fiction Sitting Opposite My Brother tend to offer similar sets of characters, narratives and resolutions. The stories often juxtapose...

Dec 17 2003

?Sloughing off Ribs’: Revealing The Second Sex in Julia Kasdorf’s Poetry BETH MARTIN BIRKY* Abstract: This essay examines the way Julia Kasdorf’s latest collection of poetry Eve’s Striptease maps a female artist’s integration of body and desire and suggests the...

Dec 17 2003

Yorifumi Yaguchi: International Mennonite Poet and Prophet of Peace WILBUR BIRKY* Abstract: Yorifumi Yaguchi is a leading Mennonite poet, both in English and Japanese. He is best known in the West for his thirty poems in Three Mennonite Poets (Good...

Dec 17 2003

Three Women Poets and the Beginnings of Mennonite Poetry in the U.S: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, Jean Janzen ANN HOSTETLER* Abstract: This paper explores from a cultural studies perspective the pioneering contributions of three women poets’Anna Ruth Ediger...

Dec 17 2003

Reading Marpeck for the First Time STEVEN SIEBERT* Abstract: Marpeck’s theology, when read for the first time, is seen to be thoroughly incarnational: ?essences? can only be known through mediation, meaning is constituted only in performative, bodily action, and Christ’s...

Dec 17 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVIII January 2004 Number One In Memoriam: J. Howard Kauffman, 1919-2003 In This Issue The Legacy of the Marpeck Community in Anabaptist Scholarship William Klassen The Church as Sign or Sacrament? Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II...

Dec 17 2003

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Papers: “Mennonites and Refugees: A 25 Year Retrospective.” A history conference examining the interaction between North American Mennonites and refugees will take place on September 30 – October 1, 2005, at the University of Winnipeg....

Dec 17 2003

Review Essay: Luther Blissett, Q, trans. Shaun Whiteside (London: William Heinemann, 2003) JACOB JOST* Beginning in the mid-1990s, a group of conceptual artists pulled a series of sophisticated stunts and pranks across Italy, creating fictional news stories and inventing from...

Dec 17 2003

BOOK REVIEWS Dutch Mennonite Mission in Indonesia: Historical Essays. By Alle Hoekema. Elkhart, Ind.: Institute of Mennonite Studies. 2001. Pp. 148. $15. Six essays with an introduction compose this book inviting English-speakers into the story of the Dutch Mennonite mission...

Dec 17 2003

The Church as Sign or Sacrament: Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II and John Milbank NEAL BLOUGH* Abstract: This essay compares Marpeck’s incarnational and trinitarian Christology with developments in Catholic sacramental theology related to Vatican II, arguing that notions such...

Dec 17 2003

IN THIS ISSUE Few figures have generated more scholarly attention among historians of Anabaptism in the past twenty years than the Swiss/South German theologian and civil engineer Pilgram Marpeck (c1495-1556). Although he never established an enduring movement that bore his...

Aug 07 2003

IN THIS ISSUE Midway through the twentieth century the Mennonite Church in North America faced a critical moment in its history. World War II–‘the ‘Good War”had mobilized the patriotic zeal of the entire nation, forcing Mennonites to articulate anew their...

Jul 29 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVI July 2003 Number Three In This Issue John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic Mark Thiessen Nation John Howard Yoder’s Role in “The Lordship of Christ Over Church and State” Conferences Donald F. Durnbaugh The Legacy of...

Jul 29 2003

Yoder’s Jesus and Economics: The Economics of Jesus or the Economics of Luke’ JOHN ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: In The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder based his interpretation of Jesus’ economic views on a non-critical use of the Gospel of Luke....

Jul 29 2003

Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Nonviolence: Was Yoder’s God a Warrior’ RAY C. GINGERICH* Abstract: Yoder placed the nonviolent earthly Jesus at the center of his theological enterprise, offering a sharp critique of Constantinianism and constructing an ethics of...

Jul 29 2003

The Legacy of an Inadequate Christology: Yoder’s Critique of Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture CRAIG A. CARTER* Abstract: H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture has exerted enormous influence on how we conceptualize the relationship between Christianity and culture. It has...

Jul 29 2003

John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic MARK THIESSEN NATION* Abstract: During the last half of the twentieth century John Howard Yoder emerged as one of the most influential theologians and ethicists of his generation. In addition to his formidable intellectual...

Jul 29 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVI April 2003 Number Two In This Issue Retrospect and Apologia Dennis Martin From New Congregations to the Ancient Church A. Orley Swartzentruber Reflections on Growing Up Mennonite in Lancaster County Mary Jean Kraybill On Being a...

Jul 29 2003

Becoming a Mennonite Quaker LOIS FREY* Ten years ago when I was first becoming Quaker and told my older son about what I was doing, he said, ?Oh, Mom, you’ll always be a Mennonite.? In some ways, he was right....

Jul 29 2003

Reflections on Growing up Mennonite in Lancaster County MARY JEAN KRAYBILL* The Mennonite church where my family attended was more than ten miles from our home, which seemed like a vast distance to me as a child whose primary activities...

Jul 29 2003

On Being a Mennonite Catholic IVAN J. KAUFFMAN* When I told my wife, whose ancestors have all been Amish or Mennonite since at least the seventeenth century, that I was becoming a Catholic, she answered that it was impossible. Although...

Jul 29 2003

Retrospect and Apologia DENNIS D. MARTIN* RADICAL REFORMATION AND THE SEARCH FOR CREDIBLE RADICES To explain why I am no longer a Mennonite I must begin with whether and to what degree I ever was a Mennonite. Although I am...

Jul 29 2003

IN THIS ISSUE Few convictions are more central to Anabaptist-Mennonite theology than the principle of voluntary, or believer’s, baptism. Becoming a Christian, argued the radical reformers of the sixteenth century and countless believers after them, was a genuine choice-a conscious...