October 1999 Orie Benjamin Gerig: Mennonite Rebel, Peace Activist, International Civil Servant, and American Diplomat, 1894-1976 GERLOF D. HOMAN* Abstract: While American Mennonites have been willing to serve in local and state governments they have not generally sought national office or…
October 1999 The Politics of Rudy Wiebe in The Blue Mountains of China ERVIN BECK* Abstract: Although Rudy Wiebe’s novel The Blue Mountains of China was published in 1970, two years before John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus, the novel…
October 1997 NICODEMITES AMONG WÜRTTEMBERG ANABAPTISTS John S. Oyer* In February 1570 regional authorities in the Duchy of Württemberg finally caught up with Hans Jäger, an underground Anabaptist from Vöhringen in the Black Forest of southwestern Württemberg, and reported…
January 1999 MENNONITE-CATHOLIC CONVERSATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA: HISTORY, CONVERGENCES, OPPORTUNITIES IVAN J. KAUFFMAN Abstract: After more than four centuries of dispute, controversy and persecution, Mennonites and Roman Catholics have begun to enter into various kinds of dialogue. This article gives a…
April 1997 In This Issue I can still vividly remember one Sunday evening from my childhood I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time when our church in Holmes County, Ohio rented a projector to show a film on Noah’s…
Contents, April, 1994 Articles (Special Issue featuring papers presented at the Women Doing Theology Conference, sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, June 23-25, 1994 in Bluffton, Ohio) Articles Dorothy Jean Weaver, "On Imitating God and Outwitting Satan: Biblical Perspectives on Forgiveness and…
Contents, October, 1994 Articles Keith L. Sprunger, "Jan Theunisz of Amsterdam (1569-1638): Mennonite Printer, Pamphleteer, Renaissance Man," (pp. 437-460) Geoffrey L. Dipple, "Humanists, Reformers and Anabaptists on Scholasticism and the Deterioration of the Church," (pp. 461-482) J. Denny Weaver, "Some Theological Implications of Christus…
Contents, January, 1995 Articles Gerlof D. Homan, "’We Must … and Can Stand Firmly’: Dutch Mennonites in World War II" (pp. 7-36) Sue Langley, "Conscientious Objection in the United States: Individual or Corporate? The Case of Arthur Jost v. The United States, 1954" (pp.
Contents, July, 1994 Articles J. Denny Weaver, "Christus Victor, Ecclesiology and Christology," (pp. 277-290). Heinz Noflatscher, "Heresy and Revolt: The Early Anabaptists in the Tyrol and in Zurich," (pp. 291-317). Russel Snyder-Penner, "The Ten Commandments, The Lord’s Prayer and The Apostles’Creed as Early Anabaptists…
Contents of Volume XCIX July 2020 Number Three In This Issue Overview by John D. Roth, editor In Memoriam: Carolyn L. (Charles) Wenger (1943-2020) Mennonites, Community, and Disease: The Impact of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic on a Mennonite Community in Manitoba Venessa Quiring Revisiting…
