Sebastian Franck in Strasbourg GEOFFREY DIPPLE* Abstract: Pilgram Marpeck’s confrontation with the Spiritualizers in Strasbourg between 1529 and 1531 is regarded as a defining moment in the history of the early Anabaptist movement. This study approaches this conflict from the perspective of a prominent, but frequently overlooked, participant: the Spiritualist…
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 LXXIII January 1999 Number One In Memoriam: Willard H. Smith (1900-1998) and J. A. Oosterbaan (1910-1998) (3) Author Addresses (6) In This Issue (7) Guy F. Hershberger vis–vis J. Lawarence Burkholder: Irreconcilable Approaches to Christian Ethics? (9) Theron F. Schlabach…
Contents of Volume LXXIII April 1999 Number Two Author Addresses (147) News and Announcements (148) In This Issue (149) Anabaptist-Mennonite Spaces and Places of Worship (151) John Janzen Christian Meeting Places, Constantinian Basilicas and Anabaptist Restorationism (167) Graydon Snyder Building the…
January 1999 RENEWING THE CONVERSATION: MENNONITE RESPONSES TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL EARL ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: Mennonite responses to the Second Vatican Council as reported in North American Mennonite publications indicated a new spirit of openness among Mennonites toward Catholics. Mennonite…
July 1999 Of Borders and Boundaries: Reflections on Mennonite Unity and Separation in the Modern World JAMES URRY* Abstract: The writing of national Mennonite histories, such as those recently completed in the United States and Canada, assumes a…
April 1999 Mennonite Debates About Church Architecture In Europe And America: Questions Of History And Theology KEITH L. SPRUNGER Abstract: Mennonite church buildings (or meetinghouses) are traditionally simple and plain. One can find numerous examples of the Mennonite plain architectural…
July 1999 Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History THERON F. SCHLABACH* Abstract. In the early 1940s, a generational transition among historians engaged in Mennonite history produced a fine historiographical debate. In the 1990s another…
April 1999 ANABAPTIST-MENNONITE SPACES AND PLACES OF WORSHIP JOHN M. JANZEN This special issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review explores the Anabaptist perspective on the relationship of worship, broadly defined, to the physical place in which it occurs. Worship here…
