Mennonite Quarterly Review

Mar 18 2003

Thinking Theologically about War against Iraq TED KOONTZ* From: The Mennonite Quarterly Review 77 (January, 2003), 93-108 Abstract: It is helpful to think in terms of a “first language” and a “second language” in seeking to address questions of war...

Jan 28 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVI July 2002 Number Three In Memoriam: Jarold K. Zeman, 1926-2000 In This Issue A Historical and Theological Context for Mennonite-Lutheran Dialogue John D. Roth Confessions of Faith in the Anabaptist/Mennonite Tradition Thomas Finger The Role and...

Jan 28 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVI April 2002 Number Two In This Issue John D. Roth Historical Roots of a Post-Gulag Theology for Russian Mennonites Walter Sawatsky John Howard Yoder’s Pedagogical Approach: A Just War Tradition with Teeth and a Hermeneutic of...

Jan 28 2003

Contents of Volume LXXVI January 2002 Number One In Memoriam: Samme Zijlstra, 1953-2001 In This Issue John D. Roth From the Tower of Babel to the Peace of Jesus Christ: Christological, Ecclesiological and Missiological Foundations for Peacemaking Neal Blough The...

Jan 28 2003

The Mennonite Year in Review “They Left Everything and Followed Him”: A Year of Finding a New Way to Community ROBERT RHODES[*] Jesus said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”...

Jan 28 2003

Mennonite World Conference 1925-2000: From Euro-American Conference to Worldwide Communion JOHN A. LAPP AND ED VAN STRATEN* Abstract: In 1925 Mennonites in Europe began a series of meetings they called Mennonite World Conference (MWC). They intended these occasional meetings to...

Jan 28 2003

Atonement, Violence and the Will of God: A Sympathetic Response to J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement CHRISTOPHER D. MARSHALL* Abstract: In the past generation, criticism of “satisfaction” theologies of atonement has grown in intensity, especially among feminist, womanist and...

Jan 28 2003

IN THIS ISSUE When future historians write the history of the Mennonite church in the twentieth century one theme will undoubtedly loom large: in the relatively short space of a century, the composition of the denomination has shifted from a...

Jan 28 2003

The “Green Hell” Becomes Home: Mennonites in Paraguay as Described in the Writings of Peter P. Klassen A Review Essay GERHARD REIMER* Kaputi Mennonita, eine friedliche Begegnung im Chacokrieg. Collected and edited by Peter P. Klassen. Filadelfia, Paraguay: n.p. 1975....

Jan 28 2003

Not Pledging as Liturgy: Lessons from Karl Barth and American Mennonites on Refusing National Oaths JOHN PERRY* Abstract: Controversy over whether Christians may offer national oaths-such as Barth’s refusal of Hitler’s loyalty oath and the Mennonite debate about the Pledge...

Jan 28 2003

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* Abstract: The rates at which adult children migrate to other Amish settlements and decide to...

Jan 28 2003

IN THIS ISSUE Outsiders observing the Amish through the prism of tourist literature or other forms of popular media often have the impression that the Amish live in a world of few meaningful choices-that the weight of tradition or the...

Aug 13 2002

The Mennonite Presence in the Chaco from a Catholic Perspective LUCIO ALFERT[*] TRANSLATED BY C. J. DYCK Abstract: For nearly 500 years the political and cultural life of South America has been deeply shaped by the institutions and faith of...

Aug 13 2002

The Role and Authority of the Lutheran Confessional Writings: Do Lutherans Really “Condemn the Anabaptists”? DAVID G. TRUEMPER* Abstract: Written for the opening session of a round of dialogue between the Mennonite Church USA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...

Aug 13 2002

Confessions of Faith in the Anabaptist/Mennonite Tradition THOMAS FINGER* Abstract: Mennonites are neither a creedal church nor a confessional one in the sense of adhering to a single authoritative confession. They are confessional, however, in the sense of having authored...

Aug 13 2002

A Historical and Theological Context for Mennonite-Lutheran Dialogue JOHN D. ROTH* Abstract: Lutherans and Anabaptists first encountered each other in the tumultuous events of the sixteenth-century Reformation. In their struggle to defend their nascent reform movement against threats from within...

Aug 13 2002

IN THIS ISSUE During the last half of the twentieth century, Mennonites in North America have been of two minds regarding ecumenical involvements. At the local level, most Mennonite congregations have long grown accustomed to joining with other denominations in...

Aug 13 2002

The Church and Homosexuality: Review Essay WILLARD M. SWARTLEY* Life Together: Family, Sexuality, and Community in the New Testament and Today. By Stephen C. Barton. New York: T. & T. Clark. 2001. Pp. 256. $33.95. The Bible and Homosexual Practice....

Aug 13 2002

Historical Roots of a Post-Gulag Theology for Russian Mennonites WALTER SAWATSKY* Abstract: The 200-year sojourn of Mennonites in Russia can serve as a paradigm for Mennonites envisioning a post-Gulag future anywhere. It contains elements of living out early Anabaptist visions,...

Aug 13 2002

IN THIS ISSUE When Mennonites in North America turn their attention to the Russian Mennonite story, the narrative is typically anchored by a few key dates: Catherine the Great’s invitation to settle the fertile farmlands of the Ukraine in 1789;...

Dec 13 2001

Contents of Volume LXXV July 2001 Number Three In This Issue Thirty Years of MCC-Washington Office: A Unique or Similar Way? Kenneth L. Eshleman Story and Eucharist: Postliberal Reflections on Anabaptist Nachfolge Craig Hovey Pamphlets, Preaching and Politics: The Image...

Dec 13 2001

Contents of Volume LXXV January 2001 Number One In Memoriam: George Hunston Williams, 1914-2000 In This Issue Author Addresses The Amish “Mission Movement” and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century Steve Nolt The Uncovering of the Babylonian...

Dec 13 2001

Contents of Volume LXXV October 2001 Number Four Author Addresses In Memoriam: John A. Hostetler In This Issue John D. Roth The Anabaptists and the Jews: The Case of Htzer, Denck and the Worms Prophets James Beck Lay Casuistry and...

Dec 13 2001

John Knox Confronts the Anabaptists: The Intellectual Aspects of His Encounter RICHARD G. KYLE* Abstract: Along with the other Protestant Reformers, John Knox waged a war against two fronts-the Catholic establishment and the left wing radicals. While his great enemy...