Mennonite Quarterly Review

Dec 13 2001

IN THIS ISSUE James Beck opens this issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review with an investigation into the Jewish roots of the Worms Prophets (Wormser Propheten)-a 1527 German translation of the Old Testament Prophets by Ludwig Hätzer and Hans Denck....

Dec 13 2001

Eighteenth-Century Anabaptists in the Margravate of Baden and Neighboring Territories MICHAELA SCHMLZ-HBERLEIN AND MARK HBERLEIN* Abstract: Throughout the eighteenth century, Anabaptist tenants farmed a number of large impartible estates in the margravate of Baden-Durlach, a small principality in the upper...

Dec 13 2001

The Varieties of Mennonite Peacemaking: A Review Essay J. ROBERT CHARLES Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism. By Leo Driedger and Donald B. Kraybill. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. 1994. Pp. 344. $14.95. From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International...

Dec 13 2001

IN THIS ISSUE For centuries, groups descended from the Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century have stubbornly promoted the cause of pacifism within the Christian faith and to the broader world. To be sure, their witness to nonviolence has not...

Dec 13 2001

From the Tower of Babel to the Peace of Jesus Christ: Christological, Ecclesiological and Missiological Foundations for Peacemaking NEAL BLOUGH* Abstract: The first part of this article is an attempt to look at biblical salvation narratives in light of the...

Dec 13 2001

From Engaged Social Activists to Disengaged Academicians? Purported Generational Shifts among Teaching Faculties at U.S. Mennonite Colleges KEITH GRABER MILLER* Abstract: Through examining recent faculty social activism at four U.S. Mennonite colleges, in comparison with faculty activism of the 1960s...

Nov 18 2001

Contents of Volume LXXV April 2001 Number Two In This Issue: Family, Community and Discipleship in the Anabaptist- Mennonite Tradition John D. Roth A Christian Social Perspective on the Family Lisa Sowell Cahill Innocence, Nurture and Vigilance: The Child in...

Aug 17 2001

Pamphlets, Preaching and Politics: The Image Controversy in Reformation Wittenberg, Zrich and Strassburg J. TRAVIS MOGER[(]  Abstract: After the first flush of success, sixteenth-century reformers began to apply their newly discovered theological convictions to religious practices. Part of the struggle...

Aug 14 2001

Thirty Years of MCC-Washington Office: A Unique or Similar Way’ KENNETH L. ESHLEMAN* Abstract: Through the combined efforts of GC and MC peace leaders, a pattern of increasing contact with government officials from the 1920s to the 1950s led to...

Aug 14 2001

Pieter Jansz Twisck on Biblical Interpretation JAMES W. LOWRY* Abstract: Systematic statements on how to interpret the Bible are rare among the early Anabaptists. Pilgrim Marpeck’s Testamentserlutterung, published in Augsburg by 1550, does address the issue at length but Marpeck’s...

Aug 14 2001

Story and Eucharist: Postliberal Reflections on Anabaptist Nachfolge CRAIG HOVEY* Abstract: This article explores some ways that George Lindbeck’s cultural-linguistic theory of religion is useful for understanding the thought and practice of sixteenth-century Swiss Anabaptism. The Swiss Brethren theology and...

Aug 14 2001

IN THIS ISSUE During the last half of the twentieth century, the Mennonite church of North America has undergone a fundamental transformation. Some of these changes- the demographic shift from the rural countryside to the suburbs, for example, or the...

Aug 14 2001

Odd Wo/Man Out: The Systematic Marginalization of Mennonite Singles by the Church’s Focus on Family ELIZABETH M. GOERING AND ANDREA KRAUSE* Abstract: This study examines the experiences of never-married singles in the Mennonite church. The results, which are based on...

Aug 14 2001

Family, Community and Discipleship in the Anabaptist-Mennonite Tradition JOHN D. ROTH, EDITOR Any attempt to survey Anabaptist-Mennonite ideals, attitudes and practices regarding the family will inevitably confront some formidable challenges. Anabaptist-Mennonite communities have taken root across the span of nearly...

Aug 14 2001

A Christian Social Perspective on the Family LISA SOWLE CAHILL* Abstract: A truly Christian family identity should not isolate families from “the real world” but should convert families to love the neighbor and serve others. Yet the “family values” rhetoric...

Jun 16 2001

IN MEMORIAM: John A. Hostetler, 1918-2001 THE MENNONITE QUARTERLY REVIEW regrets to announce the death of John Andrew Hostetler of Goshen, IN, leading scholar of Amish and Hutterite societies. He died on August 28, 2001 at the age of 82....

Mar 02 2001

Ontario’s Conference of Historic Peace Church Families and the “Joy of Service” LUCILLE MARR* Abstract: This essay briefly examines the family relationships of four executive leaders of the Conference of Historic Peace Churches (CHPC) in order to raise questions about...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four In Memoriam: Delbert Gratz Author Addresses In This Issue The Radical Road One Baptist Took James Wm. McClendon, Jr. Confessions of a Mennonite Camp Follower Stanley M. Hauerwas Following Christ Down Under:...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Confessions of a Mennonite Camp Follower STANLEY M. HAUERWAS* GETTING TO KNOW YOU, GETTING TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU[1] I am aware that I have a certain reputation among Mennonites. I felt...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Anabaptism and the Obstacles That Make for Vocation RODNEY CLAPP[*] “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Embodying the Gospel in Community RICHARD B. HAYS* One thing I have learned from the Radical Reformers is that theological thought can never be separated from its embodiment in concrete communities of...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Anabaptism and Radical Christianity CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND* In writing this contribution for the Mennonite Quarterly Review I find myself returning to a task several of us in the United Kingdom engaged in a...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four The Radical Road One Baptist Took JAMES WM. MCCLENDON, JR.* I was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1924, the son of a Methodist father and a Baptist mother. My parents faithfully attended...

Dec 05 2000

Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four IN THIS ISSUE Ten years ago, Christianity Today-an evangelical journal not generally noted for its interest in sectarian or pacifist traditions-featured an essay by Charles Scriven with the eye-catching title “The Reformation...