BOOK REVIEWS Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities. By Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. 244. $48. Plain Diversity provides a new approach to the study of the Old Order Amish. While many books and articles mention diversity, they still…
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Papers: ?Anabaptist Convictions after Marpeck’?an inter-disciplinary conference to be held at Bluffton University, June 26-28, 2009. Proposals are invited for papers that address the emergence and development of Anabaptist convictions in light of the work and life of Pilgram Marpeck and of the Marpeck circle.
Contents of Volume LXXXII October 2008 Number Four In This Issue In Memoriam: Albert N. Keim (1935-2008) Reformation Publishing and Anabaptist Propaganda: Two Contrasting Communication Strategies for the Spread of the Anabaptist Message in the Early Days of the Swiss Brethren…
Contents of Volume LXXXI July 2007 Number Three In This Issue The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective as a Living Letter Thomas Finger Christ, Canon and Confession: The Bible and the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective…
A Genealogy of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective SUSAN BIESECKER-MAST* Abstract: This essay offers a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. Thus, it provides an account of the origins of the document and its uses over time with…
Contents of Volume LXXXI October 2007 Number Four In This Issue Leading a Divided People: The Dissolution of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1990-2002) Laura Neufeld Autobiography as Theology: Menno Simons’s “Confession of My Enlightenment, Conversion and Calling”…
BOOK REVIEWS 400 Jahre Mennoniten in Altona und Hamburg: 25. Mai bis 19. August 2001, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. Matthias H. Rauert and Hajo Brandenburg, eds. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum. 2001. Pp. 52. 400 Jahre Mennoniten in Altona und Hamburg. Matthias H. Rauert and Thomas…
Mennonite Cookbooks and the Pleasure of Habit REBEKAH TROLLINGER* Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how Mennonite cookbooks reflect and encourage particular responses to the crisis of world hunger and other justice issues related to food. Whereas American culture promotes a compulsive relationship to food, often through the guise of…
A Divided People: The Dissolution of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1990-2002) LAURA NEUFELD* Abstract: In 1999, the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, which united the Canadian and U.S. Mennonite Brethren for over one hundred years, voted to dissolve and divest its ministries to two national conferences.
IN THIS ISSUE In January of 1926, three young professors at Goshen College began to publish a supplement to the student newspaper devoted to topics in Mennonite history, which they called the Review Supplement. Over the course of the next eighty years, The Mennonite Quarterly Review went on to establish…
