Curriculum Vitae
Office: (219) 535-7433
E-mail: johndr@goshen.edu
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Professor
of History:
Associate Professor of History:
Director of the Mennonite
Historical Library:
Editor, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, 1994-present
Faculty
Director of
Assistant Professor of History:
Dissertation research in
Instructor: Seminar on German Paleography, University of
Lilly
Endowment – Project Director for four year research project on “Amish and Old
Order Groups in
Lilly Endowment
– Project Director for conference on “Mennonites and the Family,”
Lilly
Endowment – Project Director for conference on “Mennonites and Conflict,”
“Mennonite
Periodicals Preservation Project,” Project Director – $60,000 grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities (1990-1993) and $10,000 from the
Schowalter Foundation for preservation microfilming.
“Marc Perry
Galler” prize: Best dissertation in the Social Science Division, University of
Chicago, 1989-90.
A Companion to Anabaptism And Spiritualism,
1521-1700, ed. John D. Roth and James
Stayer] (
Stories: How
Mennonites Came to Be (
“Forgiveness
and the Healing of Memories: The Ecumenics of Reconciliation from an
Anabaptist- Mennonite Perspective,” Journal
of Ecumenical Studies (forthcoming)
“Polls Apart: Why Believers Might
Conscientiously Abstain from Voting,” in Nathan E. Yoder and Carol A.
Scheppard, ed. Exiles in the Empire:
“Challenges
of ‘Crosscultural’ Communication: A Response to C. Norman Kraus,” DreamSeeker (January, 2006), 28-31.
“Foreword,”
to Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Separation and
the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion (
Beliefs:
Mennonite Faith and Faith (
“Can we be a
people who speak about what we have seen and heard?” and “A time to speak
boldly; a time to keep silent,” essays in mPress,
July 5, 2005, p. 3 and July 9, 2005, p.
2.
“How Should
We Address Government?” MC-USA General Convention,
“Called to
One Peace: Christian Faith and Political Witness in a Divided Culture,” Mennonite Life on-line journal (July,
2005); with a response to respondents.
“A Deep Pastoral Concern [On Speaking to
Government],” The Mennonite (
“Past Due:
Not a New Dilemma for Anabaptists,” The
Marketplace (Sept.-Oct., 2005), 18-19.
“Give and Take: Thoughts on a Healthy Mennonite
ecumenism,” The Mennonite (
“’Be Not Conformed’: Why Have American
Anabaptists Lived in Protest Against the Modern World?” Christian History 84 (Fall, 2004), 31-33.
“Scanning, Sifting, Nudging and Nurturing:
Editing an Academic Journal,” Anabaptist-Mennonite
Scholars Network Newsletter 6:2 (Fall, 2003), 2-3.
“On the Rise
(and Demise?) of Mennonite Institutions,” The
Mennonite (
“Foreword” to:
Will Schirmer, Reaching Beyond the
Mennonite Comfort Zone (
Choosing
Against War: A Christian View (Intercourse, PA: Good
Books, 2002).
Witnesses to Hope: Student Reflections on Hope at
the Beginning of the 21st Century, John D. Roth, ed. (
“The Limits
of Confessionalization: Hans Landis and the Debate over Religious Toleration in
“Recent Currents in the Historiography of the
Radical Reformation,” Church History 71 (September, 2002), 523-535.
“A Historical
and Theological Context for Mennonite-Lutheran Dialogue,” MQR 76 (July,
2002), 263-276.
Letters of
the Amish Division: A Sourcebook, trans. and ed. by John D. Roth. 2nd edition
(Goshen, IN: Mennonite Historical Society, 1993, 2002).
“Pietismus und Täufertum – ein schwieriges Verhältnis,” Mennonitische
Geschichtsblätter 58 (2002), 71-94
“Reflections
on a Tragedy,” The Mennonite (
John D. Roth,
ed. Engaging Anabaptism: Conversations
with a Radical Tradition (Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 2001).
“Michael
Sattler,” Encyclopedia of Protestantism
(New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
“The Church
‘Without Spot or Wrinkle’ in Anabaptist Experience,” in: Karl Koop and Mary
Schertz, eds. Without Spot or Wrinkle:
Reflecting Theologically on the Nature of the Church (
Oyer, John S.
“They Harry the Good People Out of the
Land”: Essays on the Persecution, Survival and Flourishing of Anabaptists and
Mennonites, ed. by John D. Roth (
“Living from the Center in a Fragmented
Culture,” Our Faith (Winter, 2000),
6-7.
“The Rites and
Rights of Voting: Reflections on a Presidential Campaign,” The Mennonite (
“What Families Should Value,” Christian Living (June 2000), 4-7.
“Context,
Conflict and Community: South German Mennonites at the Threshold of Modernity,
1750-1850,” in: Gerald and Sue Biesecker-Mast, eds. Anabaptists and Postmodernity, (Pandora Press, 2000), 122-146.
“Pietism and the Anabaptist Soul,” Pietismus und Neuzeit: Ein Jahrbuch zur Geschichte des neueren
Protestantismus 25 (1999), 182-202.
“Harmonizing
the Scriptures: Swiss Brethren understandings of the relationship between the
Old Testament and the New Testament during the last half of the sixteenth
century,” in Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple, eds. Radical Reformation
Studies: Essays Presented to James M.
Stayer (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1999).
“’Even So, Come, Lord Jesus’: A Review of Recent Literature on the
Millennium,” Christian Living
(December, 1999), 4-8.
“Anabaptist
Missions and the Critique of Christendom,” in David W. Shenk and Linford
Stuztman, eds. Practicing Truth:
Confident Witness in Our Pluralistic World (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press,
1999), 82-101.
“Do
Denominations Matter? The Relevance of
Anabaptism to Contemporary Christianity,” Brethren
in Christ History and Life 22 (August, 1999), 221-233.
“Binding and Loosing: Why the Mennonite Church
does not regard same-sex marriages as a Christian option,” The Mennonite (January 19, 1999), 4-6; [part II], The Mennonite (January 26, 1999), 5-8.
Migrant Muses: Mennonite/s Writing in the
“Mutual Aid
Among the Swiss Brethren, 1550-1750,” in: Willard M. Swartley and Donald B.
Kraybill,
“A Fresh
Breath of Life: Mennonite Integration
Moves Ahead in
“Mennonite
Integration in
“Pietism and
the Anabaptist Soul,” in: Stephen L. Longenecker, ed. The Dilemma of Anabaptist Piety (Bridgewater, VA: Forum for
Religious Studies, 1997), 17-34.
“The
Relevance of Menno Simons for Evangelical Christians,” Mennonite Historical Bulletin (January, 1997), 1-6.
“The
Mennonites’ Dirty Little Secret: What Today’s Christians can learn from how
Menno Simons rescued the Anabaptist movement,”
Christianity Today (October 7,
1996), 44-48.
“Revival
Fires and an Anabaptist Pilgrimage,” in: Ted Koontz, ed. Godward: Personal Stories of
Grace (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1996); also
published as “Gnade, Feuer der Erweckung und eine mennonitische Pilgerreise,”
in Er macht Wege frei: das habe ich mit
Gott erlebt (Lahr: Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, 1997), 36-46.
Articles in
the Encyclopedia of the Reformation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) on “Christian Entfelder,” “Hans
Hottinger,” “Valentin Weigel,” and “Nikolsburg”.
Refocusing a Vision: Shaping Anabaptist Character in
the 21st Century, John D. Roth, editor (Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society,
1995).
“Aandacht
voor homoseksualiteit overdreven,” Algemeene
Doopsgezinde Weekblad (
“Christian
Peacemaking in the Culture Wars,” Gospel
Herald (March 18, 1995), 1-4.
“Community as
Conversation: A New Model of Anabaptist Hermeneutics,” in: H. Wayne Pipkin, ed.
Essays in Anabaptist Theology
(Elkhart, Ind.: AMBS Text-Reader Series, 1994), 35-50.
Editor and
Project Manager of: Susan Fisher Miller, Culture For Service: A History of
“Common Origins of Mennonites and Amish to
1693,” in: V. Gordon Oyer, ed. Tradition
and Transition: An Amish Mennonite Heritage of Obedience (Metamora, Ill.:
Illinois Mennonite Historical Society, 1993), 9-24.
Letters of the Amish Division (translator and editor).
“The Amish as a People of History,”
“The
Significance of the Martyr Story for Contemporary Anabaptists,” Brethren Life and Thought (Spring,
1992):97-106.
“Foreword,” Anabaptist and Mennonite Spiritual Writings,
Craig Haas, ed. (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1992)
“Issues for
the 90s: The Search for Mennonite Identity,” Gospel Herald (
“From
Nonconformity to Transformation: Reflections on the Demise of an Ideal,” Festival Quarterly (Winter, 1990):15-17.
Sixteenth Century Studies Monograph Series (
Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History
(Mennonite Historical Society)
Pennsylvania German History and Culture
series (
Classics of the Radical Reformation (