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 . . .
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 worship and service. Thus, when asked…
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 couple of years ago.[1]…
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 their respective churches, but motherhood being…
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 Radicals Ride Again.” After nearly four-and-a-half…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Mennonite Year in Review: Mennonites in the Year 2000 JOHN A. LAPP* Mennonites in the year 2000, although richly diverse, maintain a conspicuous sense of peoplehood. The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) reported in July that there are…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One IN THIS ISSUE To most casual observers, the Amish appear to be a people without a history, frozen in time within the whirl of a changing culture around them. In the opening essay of this…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Amish “Mission Movement” and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century STEVE NOLT[*] Abstract: During the middle of the twentieth…
Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three “United Progressive Mennonites”: Bluffton College and Anabaptist Higher Education, 1913-1945 Perry Bush Anabaptist Separation and Arguments Against the Sword in the Schleitheim Brotherly Union Gerald Biesecker-Mast Vondel, Sudermann and Kliewer: Stretching…
Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three Vondel, Sudermann and Kliewer: Stretching the Invisible Canon of Mennonite Dramatic Writing LAUREN FRIESEN* Abstract: This essay argues that Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) and Warren Kliewer (1931-1998) should all be considered as Mennonite playwrights…
