Christian Relationships to State and Community
Author | : Guy Franklin Hershberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Guy Franklin Hershberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Author | : Harold S. Bender |
Publisher | : MennoMedia, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0836197224 |
The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. In it, Harold S. Bender defines the spirit and purposes of the original Anabaptists. Three major points of emphasis are: the transformation of the entire way of life of the individual to the teachings and example of Christ, voluntary church membership based upon conversion and commitment to holy living, and Christian love and nonresistance applied to all human relationships.
Author | : Edward Yoder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Mennonites |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Stauffer Bender |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Mennonites |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herold Bender |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Graber Miller |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870499364 |
"In July 1968, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) opened an office in Washington, D.C., for monitoring the actions of the federal government's various branches. Given American Mennonites' long history of noninvolvement in political affairs, this shift toward engagement was dramatic indeed. In this in-depth study, Keith Graber Miller shows how the church's distinctive traditions of pacifism, humility, and service have informed and shaped the nature of its activities in Washington." "Graber Miller argues that Mennonites have both influenced the national policymaking debate and have themselves been influenced by their increasing exposure to it." "Wise As Serpents, Innocent as Doves not only explores the twentieth-century transformations among American Mennonites but illuminates the larger issues of religious lobbying in the nation's capital. Graber Miller suggests that the Mennonites have helped redefine what it means to be a lobbyist. Because the Mennonites' numbers are too few to make them a politically significant force, he argues, their only credibility in Washington lies in an astute and accurate analysis of how the world is and in the integrity of their witness to the truth as they see it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Abraham P. Toews |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1620327643 |
The aim of this book is to present without reservation and in simple fashion the beliefs of the Mennonites and their uncompromising nonconformity. As such it sets forth for the first time the basis of the distinctive ethical code of the Mennonite community. It will appeal to all persons who are interested in the Christian faith, regardless of their own church affiliation. The Problem of Mennonite Ethics is divided into four parts. The first section states the problem, discusses Mennonite belief in relationship to modern theology, and sets forth the need and challenges of today. The second part expounds the biblical basis of Mennonite philosophy and theology, and compares Mennonite ethics to Humanism, Pietism, and Mysticism. Part three deals with the application of Mennonite ethics to others and the Mennonite view of the individual. Part four contains the conclusion, appendixes, and a bibliography.
Author | : Beulah S. Hostetler |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2002-03-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1579109063 |
American Mennonites and Protestant Movements describes the key religious values in a major Mennonite settlement over a period of three centuries in its encounter with other religious movements: Pietism, revivalism, Fundamentalism, and institutionalization. The author analyzes how Mennonites both resisted these influences and were changed by them. The book also documents the codification of practice in the twentieth century and how restrictions waned as a growing emphasis on peace and service emerged. The author demonstrates that the key values shaping the Mennonite community are religious, not simply ethnic, and are consistent with their sixteenth-century character. These conclusions are based on a careful study of their value patterns, nonverbal behavior, issues and personalities in confrontation, and in the conduct of their community behavior. This book will help a new generation of Mennonites who wish to discover their heritage and spiritual identity. For Christian believers outside the Anabaptist tradition it will clarify long-standing ambiguities about the Mennonites.
Author | : Theron F. Schlabach |
Publisher | : MennoMedia, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2009-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0836198085 |
John Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace. But before Yoder there was Guy F. Hershberger, whose reflections on war, violence and peace helped Mennonites navigate perilous times in early to mid-20th century, and who also laid the foundation for what became the Alternative Service Program in the U.S. during World War II. In the 1960s, he played an important role in guiding the Mennonite church’s response to the civil rights movement—nudging them toward greater openness to Martin Luther King’s call for justice for African-Americans. In this definitive biography, Theron F. Schlabach shows how Hershberger helped Christians live their faith in a world beset by war and injustice, at the same time pioneering creative ways to engage pressing concerns such as civil rights, economic justice and capital punishment. Says Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School: “What Schlabach has given us is an invaluable, honest account of a life lived in the tensions of the Mennonite church as that church explored the implications of being a people committed to nonviolence. The resulting account is a crucial account not only of Hershberger’s life, but of Mennonite life—an accounting I hope non-Mennonites will find instructive because it may help them understand Mennonites, but more importantly how Mennonites help us better understand what being Christian entails.” War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics was made possible through the generous support of Mennonite Mutual Aid and the Mennonite Historical Society.
Author | : Donald B. Kraybill |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271028653 |
Examining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.