IN THIS ISSUE Few issues have polarized American culture more deeply-and with it, the bonds of fellowship within the Christian community-than that of abortion. From the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 to the most recent Supreme Court appointment, the public debate over abortion has been an explosive marker…
Contents of Volume LXXIX October 2005 Number Four In This Issue In Memoriam: Donald F. Durnbaugh, 1927-2005 Jeffrey Bach Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in the Peace Tradition Perspective: A Critical-Constructive Response to the MC USA Statement on Abortion…
The Hutterites and the Bruderhof: The Relationship Between an Old Older Religious Society and a Twentieth-Century Communal Group ROD JANZEN* Abstract: The twentieth-century merger of the Hutterites, an old order Anabaptist group established in the 1520s, and the Bruderhof communities, founded by Eberhard Arnold in Germany in 1920,…
Contents of Volume LXXIX July 2005 Number Three In This Issue Author Addresses In Memoriam: Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, 1926-2005 John Howard Yoder’s “Alternative Perspective” on Christian-Jewish Relations Alain Epp Weaver The Publications of John A. Hostetler: A Bibliography…
BOOK REVIEWS From Kleefeld with Love. Edited and translated by John Harder. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press. 2003. Pp.198. $22 Can. In the 1980s I became concerned about the fate of the letters written by Mennonites in the Soviet Union to relatives and friends in Canada. I was often shown shoeboxes…
Review Essay: Shawn Francis Peters, The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003) LEE ROY BERRY, JR.* The Yoder Case recounts how the United States Supreme Court resolved the conflict between Wisconsin educational officials and Amish parents over that state’s compulsory education…
Benes Optt, “On Baptism and the Lord’s Supper”: An Utraquist Reformer’s Opinion of Pilgram Marpeck’s Vermahnung MARTIN ROTHKEGEL* The Utraquist priest Benes Optt (d. 1559) was a prominent advocate of reform within the Utraquist Church in Moravia. Theologically, he formed part of a regional Sacramentarian-Spiritualist movement that blended radical traditions…
John Howard Yoder’s “Alternative Perspective” on Christian-Jewish Relations ALAIN EPP WEAVER* Abstract: The late John Howard Yoder’s posthumously published essays on Jewish-Christian relations display the breadth and depth of his scholarship. In them Yoder integrated biblical, historical and theological scholarship into multiple, provocative theses about how Christians should conceive…
The Kitchenhood of all Believers: A Journey into the Discourse of Mennonite Cookbooks MATTHEW BAILEY-DICK* Abstract: This paper brings together insights from cultural anthropology, religious studies and Mennonite studies in an effort to uncover the ways in which Mennonite cookbooks can be understood as a recognizable discourse (or cluster…
Contents of Volume LXXIX April 2005 Number Two In Memoriam: Sjouke Voolstra, 1942-2004 In Memoriam: J. Winfield Fretz, 1910-2005 In This Issue The Kitchenhood of all Believers: A Journey into the Discourse of Mennonite Cookbooks Matthew Bailey-Dick From…
