Contents of Volume LXXIV July 2000 Number Three “United Progressive Mennonites”: Bluffton College and Anabaptist Higher Education, 1913-1945 PERRY BUSH* Abstract: In contrast to the more established narratives of Mennonite higher education as represented by schools…
April 2000 “On Civilizing the Nogais": Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 JOHN R. STAPLES* Abstract: Mennonites lived alongside Nogais-semi-nomadic Tatar pastoralists-in the Molochna region of southern Ukraine from 1803, when Mennonites first arrived, until 1860, when the Nogais departed. In…
January 2000 “Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good”: How Menno Caused a Reformed Pastor to Travel from Murten to Moravia HANSPETER JECKER* Abstract: Jakob Gelthuser, a Reformed pastor from the Swiss village of Murten, broke…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2000 Number One Author Addresses (6) “Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good”: How Menno Caused a Reformed Pastor to Travel from Murten to Moravia (7) Hanspeter Jecker “Searching Through the Nations”: Tasks and Problems of…
April 2000 Research note: Identifying Jacob Ammann JOHN HPPI* Jacob Ammann, whose reform movement in Alsace, Switzerland and the Palatinate led to a well-known and painful schism in the 1690s, is one of the most controversial figures in Anabaptist…
April 2000 Research Note: On the Trail of Jacob Ammann MARK FURNER* During several months of combing through the Bernese government council minutes from the time following the repression of Anabaptism, I came across an early reference to Jakob Ammann.
January 2000 THE MENNONITE YEAR IN REVIEW Purple Clematis and Yellow Pine: On Cemeteries, Irony and Difference MARLENE EPP* Although I am a historian, I am not drawn to cemeteries. I rarely visit them, either as a researcher in…
Contents of Volume LXXIII October 1999 Number Four In This Issue (675) Author Addresses (676) The (Not-so) “Simple Confession” of the Later Swiss Brethren. Part I: Manuscripts and Marpeckites in an Age of Print (677) Arnold Snyder The Politics of Rudy Wiebe…
Contents of Volume LXXIII July 1999 Number Three In This Issue (419) Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History (427) Theron F. Schlabach Historians and the Canadian Mennonite Experience (443) T. D. Regehr The American Mennonite Search for a Useable…
Contents of Volume LXXIV April 2000 Number Two Author Addresses (226) In This Issue (227) "On Civilizing the Nogais”: Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 (229) John R. Staples The Schwenckfeldians in Strasbourg, 1533-1562: A Prosopographical Survey (257) John Derksen The War of…
