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Fall 2009
The 2009 Bechtel Lectures
Ambassadors of Reconciliation: Biblical and Contemporary Witnesses
Ched Myers and Elaine Enns
I. "Ambassadors in Chains": Evangelizing the Powers
II. Women Clothed with the Sun: Sophia Facing the Beast
ARTICLES
- Three Hundred Years of Pietism, Anabaptism, and Pluralism
Scott Holland
- Can Mennonites Support Policing?
Sidonie Swama Tanziga Falanga
REFLECTION
BOOK REVIEWS
- William T. Cavanaugh
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
Reviewed by Andy Alexis-Baker
- Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays, eds.
Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
Reviewed by Rene Baergen
- Ellen Hodgson Brown
Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System And How We Can Break Free
Reviewed by George Crowell
- Marlene Epp
Mennonite Women in Canada: A History
Reviewed by Brian Froese
- Bob Goudzwaard, Mark Vander Vennen, and David Van Heemst
Hope in Troubled Times: A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises
Reviewed by Lowell Ewert
- Thomas P. Scheck
Origen and the History of Justification: The Legacy of Origen's Commentary on Romans
Reviewed by Nancy Heisey
- Miguel A. De La Torre
Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethic of Reconciliation
Reviewed by Daniel Smith-Christopher
- Ted Lewis, ed.
Electing Not to Vote: Christian Reflections on Reasons for Not Voting
Reviewed by Victor J. Hinojosa
- Scott Holland
How Do Stories Save Us? An Essay on the Question with the Theological Hermeneutics of David Tracy in View
Reviewed by Keith Graber Miller
Spring 2009
Responses to J. Denny Weaver's
The Nonviolent Atonement
- Introductory Comments
Ted Grimsrud
- Don’t Need No Satisfaction:
Rolling the Stone Away With J. Denny Weaver
Sharon Baker
- “Who has Believed What We Have Heard?”
A Response to J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement
Mark Thiessen Nation
- Weaver and Nonviolent Atonement: A Response
Tom Yoder Neufeld
- Response to Reflections
J. Denny Weaver
ARTICLES
- Theology and Fundraising: How Does Current Canadian Mennonite Praxis Compare to the Apostle Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem?
Lori Guenther Reesor
REFLECTION
- Müde bin ich, geh’ zur Ruh: The Story of a Children’s Prayer
Margaret Loewen Reimer
BOOK REVIEWS
- Lytta Basset
Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus
Reviewed by David Augsburger
- John F. Haught
God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens
Reviewed by Christian Early
- Connie Braun
The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir
Reviewed by Jeff Gundy
- Paul Louis Metzger
Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church
Reviewed by Regina Shands Stoltzfus
- Ted Grimsrud
Embodying the Way of Jesus: Anabaptist Convictions for the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Loren L. Johns
- Diane Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher
The Amish and the Media
Reviewed by John Longhurst
- Ronald J. Sider
I am Not a Social Activist: Making Jesus the Agenda
Reviewed by Doug Pritchard
- John L. Thompson
Reading the Bible with the Dead: What you can learn from the history of exegesis that you can’t learn from exegesis alone
Reviewed by Dan Epp-Tiessen
- Waldemar Janzen
Growing Up in Turbulent Times: Memoirs of Soviet Oppression, Refugee Life in Germany, and Immigrant Adjustment to Canada
Reviewed by Leonard Friesen
Winter 2009
The 2008 Bechtel Lectures
The Mennonite Experience in Paraguay
Alfred Neufeld
I. The Congregational and Theological Experience
II. The Diaconal and Social Experience
ARTICLES
- The “Shared Convictions” of Mennonite World Conference in Developmental Context and Ecumenical, Anabaptist, and Global Perspective
Sarah Johnson
- Islamic Monotheism and the Trinity
Jon Hoover
BOOK REVIEWS
- Hans Küng
The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion
Reviewed by Daryl Culp
- Robert W. Brimlow
What About Hitler? Wrestling with Jesus’ Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World
Reviewed by Ronald J. Sider
- Stanley E. Porter, ed.
Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament
Reviewed by Derek Suderman
- Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles
Christianity, Democracy and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian
Reviewed by Paul Doerksen
- Laura Ruth Yordy
Green Witness: Ecology, Ethics, and the Kingdom of God
Reviewed by Luke Gascho
- Conrad L. Kanagy
Road Signs on the Journey: A Profile of Mennonite Church USA
Reviewed by Ed Janzen
- Earl Zimmerman
Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder’s Social Ethics
Reviewed by Mark Thiessen Nation
- Amy Laura Hall
Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction
Reviewed by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
- Donald Capps
Jesus, the Village Psychiatrist
Reviewed by Janet M. Berg, M.D.
- Chris K. Huebner
A Precarious Peace
Reviewed by Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel
- Tripp York
The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom
Reviewed by Stephanie Krehbiel
Fall 2008
THE 2007 BENJAMIN EBY LECTURE
Christian Theology Today: What is at Stake?
A. James Reimer
ARTICLES
- Baptismal Robes or Camel’s Hair?
A Theological Response to the “Politics of Becoming”
Anthony G. Siegrist
- St. Gregory of Nyssa, Anabaptism, and the Creeds
Andrew P. Klager
- Dialogue of the Feet: A Mennonite Sojourn Through Mindanao
Jon Rudy
BOOK REVIEWS
- Peter Dula and Alain Epp Weaver.
Borders and Bridges: Mennonite
Witness in a Religiously Diverse World
Reviewed by Susan Kennel Harrison
- Bryan Stone
Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and
Practice of Christian Witness
Reviewed by James R. Krabill
- Hearing the Sermon: Relationship/Content/Feeling by Ronald J. Allen; Listening to the Listeners: Homiletical Case Studies by John S. McClure, Ronald J. Allen, Dale P. Andrews, L. Susan Bond, Dan P. Moseley, and G. Lee Ramsey, Jr.; Believing in Preaching: What Listeners Hear in Sermons by Mary Alice Mulligan, Diane Turner-Sharaz, Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, and Ronald J. Allen; Make the Word Come Alive: Lessons from Laity by Mary Alice Mulligan and Ronald J. Allen
Allan Rudy-Froese
- Charles H. Cosgrove and W. Dow Edgerton
In Other Words:
Incarnational Translation for Preaching
Reviewed by June Alliman Yoder
- Ron Austin
In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts
Reviewed by Gordon Houser
- Jeremy M. Bergen, Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, eds. Creed
and Conscience: Essays in Honor of A. James Reimer
Reviewed by Susanne Guenther Loewen
- Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos
Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in
Christian Faith and Practice
Reviewed by Steven J. Schweitzer
- Donald E. Miller, Scott Holland, Lon Fendall, and Dean Johnson, eds.
Seeking Peace in Africa: Stories from African Peacemakers
Reviewed by Ted Koontz
MENNONITES AND POLICING
An Ongoing Conversation
- How Did We Get Here?
Lowell Ewert
- What About Peter? A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?
Steve Brnjas
- A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?”
Allister Field
- Policing Issues in the Anabaptist Faith
Morley Lymburner
- Police and the Oath of Office
Morley Lymburner
- Partnerships for Safer Communities
Eileen Henderson
- Who is – Who Will Protect – My Neighbor?
Mary Lou Klassen
- Law Without Violence
Jodie Boyer Hatlem and Doug Johnson Hatlem
- Just the Police Function, Then:
A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?”
Gerald Schlabach
- What Shall We Do?
A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?”
Russel Snyder-Penner
- Law and Its Enforcement: A Substitute for Violence
A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?”
Lowell Ewert
- Power, the Powers, and Policing:
A Response to “The Gospel or a Glock?”
Keith Regehr
- Ecclesiology and Policing: Who Calls the Shots?
Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
- Community, Policing, and Violence
Andy Alexis-Baker
- Security, Public Order, and Policing:
Reflections on a Conversation
Duane Friesen
- Pacifism, Policing, and Individual Conscience
A. James Reimer
The 2007 Bechtel Lectures
The Confession of a Reluctant Mennonite
by Sandra Birdsell
- LECTURE ONE: Writing from the Outside
- LECTURE TWO: Writing from the Inside
MENNONITE/S WRITING: ACROSS BORDERS
Conference at Bluffton University,
Bluffton, Ohio – October 2006
- Mennonite/s Writing: State of the Art?
Hildi Froese Tiessen
- Playing the Sacred Harp: Mennonite Literature as Confession
Ann Hostetler
- The Marriage of the Martyrs Mirror and the Open Road, or
Why I Love Poetry Despite the Suspicion that it Won’t Save Anybody
Jeff Gundy
- Literature, Place, Language, and Faith: A Conversation between
Jean Janzen, John Ruth, and Rudy Wiebe
Moderator: Julia Kasdorf
- Tribute to Nicholas C. Lindsay,
Sr.
Jeff Gundy
- Tribute to Sarah Klassen
Hildi Froese Tiessen
- Tribute to Dallas Wiebe
Paul Tiessen
- Tribute to Jean Janzen
Julia Kasdorf
- “It gets under the skin and settles in”:
A Conversation with Miriam Toews
Natasha G. Wiebe
Reviews
- Paul J. Griffiths.
The Vice of Curiosity: An Essay on Intellectual Appetite
Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann,
The Passionate Intellect:
Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education
Reviewed by Michael A. King
- Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld.
Recovering Jesus: The Witness of the
New Testament
Reviewed by Jacob W. Elias
- Albert Borgmann
Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for
Our Country
Reviewed by Paul C. Heidebrecht
- Reta Halteman Finger
Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals
in the Book of Acts
Reviewed by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
- M. Daniel Carroll and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds.
Character Ethics and
the Old Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture
Robert L Brawley, ed.
Character Ethics and the New Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture
Reviewed by Ben C. Ollenburger
Spinoza as Religious Philosopher: Between Radical Protestantism and Jewishness
2006 Conference Proceedings
Spinoza on Character and Community
Graeme Hunter
- Response to Graeme Hunter: Spinoza and the Boundary Zones
of Religious Interaction
Michael Driedger
- Spinoza’s Jewishness
Willi Goetschel
- Response to Willi Goetschel: Spinoza’s Excommunication
David Novak
Articles
- The Jewish–Christian Schism Revisited
Mitchell Brown
- Augustinian Existentialism and Yoder’s Messianic Politics: Revolutionary
Implications of Augustine’s Understanding of Right Worship
Justin D. Klassen
- ‘Holding Fast’ to Principles or Drawing Boundaries of Exclusion?
The Use and Misuse of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective
David Kratz Mathies
Reviews
- Graeme Hunter
Radical Protestantism in Spinoza’s Thought
Reviewed by Peter John Hartman
- Willi Goetschel
Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Seiling
- Brayton Polka
Hermeneutics and Ontology
Reviewed by Matthew Klaassen
- Ursula M. Franklin
The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map
Reviewed by Arthur Boers
- Gordon Oliver
Holy Bible, Human Bible: Questions Pastoral Practice MustAsk
Ray Gingerich and Earl Zimmerman, eds.
Telling Our Stories:
Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture
Paul Ballard and
Stephen R. Holmes, eds.
The Bible in Pastoral Practice: Readings in the
Place and Function of Scripture in the Church
Reviewed by Jennifer Davis Sensenig
- Marlene Epp and Carol Ann Weaver, eds.
Sound in the Land:
Essays on Mennonites and Music
Reviewed by Alice Parker
- Rebecca Slough and Shirley Sprunger King, eds.
Nurturing Spirit through
Song: The Life of Mary K. Oyer
Reviewed by Jonathan Dueck
- Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in
the Jordan to the Transfiguration
Reviewed by Gregory K. Hillis
- Don S. Browning
Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies
Reviewed by Daniel S. Schipani
The 2006 Benjamin Eby Lecture
- Law as a Sword, Law as a Shield
Lowell Ewert
Articles
- The Gospel or a Glock? Mennonites and the Police
Andy Alexis-Baker
- Beyond Secular and Sacred: An Anabaptist Model for Christian Social Ethics
Earl Zimmerman
- Grace and Freedom: An Anabaptist Perspective
Antonio Gonzalez
Reviews
- John H. Redekop. Politics Under God; Nathan E. Yoder and Carol A. Sheppard, eds. Exiles in Empire: Believers Church Perspectives on Politics.
Reviewed by Sandra Joireman
- Rodney James Sawatsky. History and Ideology: American Mennonite Identity Definition through History.
Reviewed by David R. Swartz
- Craig A. Carter. Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective. Reviewed by Duane K. Friesen
- Leah Dawn Bueckert and Daniel S. Schipani (eds.) Spiritual Caregiving in the Hospital: Windows to Chaplaincy Ministry.
Reviewed by Glen R. Horst.
- Caspar Schwenckfeld. Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs. Ed. H.H. Drake Williams III. Trans. Edward J. Furcha et al.
Reviewed by Jonathan Seiling
- David F. Ford and Daniel W. Hardy. Living in Praise.
Reviewed by Eleanor Kreider
- J. Matthew Pinson. The Washing of the Saints’ Feet.
Reviewed by Pieter Post
The 2006 Bechtel Lectures
Time and Memory: Secular and Sacred Aspects of the World
of the Russian Mennonites and Their Descendants
James Urry
-
Lecture 1: Time: the Transcendent and the Worldly
-
Lecture 2: Memory: Monuments and the Marking of Pasts
Article
- Music and Development: MCC Workers in Chad
Jonathan Dueck
Reviews
- Scottie May, Bath Posterski, Catherine Stonehouse, and Linda Cannell.
Children Matter: Celebrating Their Place in the Church, Family, and Community.
Reviewed by Eleanor Snyder
- Oliver O’Donovan.
The Ways of Judgment
Reviewed by Paul Doerksen
- Proceedings of the 2001-2004 Goshen Conferences on Religion and Science.
Carl S. Helrich, ed.
Nancey Murphy- Religion and Science: God, Evolution, and the Soul.
George F.R. Ellis- A Universe of Ethics, Morality, and Hope.
Antje Jackelén - The Dialogue between Religion and Science: Challenges and Future Directions.
John F. Haught- Purpose, Evolution and the Meaning of Life.
Reviewed by Darrin W. Snyder Belousek
- Richard A. Yoder, Calvin W. Redekop, and Vernon E. Jantzi.
Development to a Different Drummer: Anabaptist/Mennonite Experiences and Perspectives
Reviewed byLarissa Fast
- Roman J. Miller, Beryl H. Brubaker, and James C. Peterson, eds.
Viewing New Creations with Anabaptist Eyes: Ethics of Biotechnology
Reviewed byRay Epp
- David L. Weaver-Zercher, ed.
Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler
Reviewed bySteven M. Nolt
- Mark Thiessen Nation.
John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions.
Reviewed by Gayle Gerber Koontz
- Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson.
The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Sprirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Reviewed by Weldon D. Nisly
- Geffrey Dipple.
‘Just as in the Time of the Apostles’: Uses of History in the Radical Reformation.
Reviewed by Jonathan Seiling
- Ivan Kauffman, ed.
Just Policing: Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquium, 2002.
Duane K. Friesen and Gerald Schlabach, eds.
At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security, and the Wisdom of the Cross.
Reviewed by Andy Alexis-Baker
Recent Mennonite Studies on The Lord’s Supper
- The Challenge of Menno Simons’ Symbolic View of the Lord’s
Supper
Joel Schmidt
- Was the Bread Only Bread and the Wine Only Wine?
Sacramental Theology in Five Anabaptist Hymns
C. Arnold Snyder
- Singing Shapes Communion: The Progression of Eucharistic Theology
in 20th-Century Mennonite Hymnals
Adam M.L. Tice
- The Problematic Development of the Sacraments in the Thought
of John Howard Yoder
Paul Martens
- Communion as a Missional Ordinance
Hippolyto Tshimanga
- On False Distinctions: The Body of Christ, Mystical and Sacramental
John Rempel
Reflection
- The Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches – Porto
Allegre, Brazil
(14-22 February 2006)
Thomas Finger
John Howard Yoder as Historian
- Doing History with Theological Ethics in Mind: John Howard Yoder as
Historian of Anabaptism
C. Arnold Snyder
- On Flushing the Confessional Rabbit out of the Socio-Ecclesial Brushpile
Stephen Dintaman
- John Howard Yoder’s Contribution to Research on Anabaptist History
Hanspeter Jecker
- Walking with Yoder toward a Theological Approach to the Automobile
from a Mennonite Perspective
Paul C. Heidebrecht
Book Review:
- Paul Doerksen
John Howard Yoder: Anabaptism and Reformation in Switzerland:
An Historical and Theological Analysis of the Dialogues Between
Anabaptists and Reformers
TThe 2005 Benjamin Eby Lecture
- A Mennonite Novelist’s Journey (from) Home: Ephraim Weber’s
Encounters with S.F. Coffman and Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hildi Froese Tiessen
REVELATION AND AUTHORITY
Shi’ah Muslim - Mennonite Christian Dialogue II
- Revelation, Law and Individual Conscience
A. James Reimer
- Reflections on Revelation and Authority Among Shi’ites and Mennonites
Muhammad Legenhausen
- Reason and Revelation
Mohammad Ali Shomali
- The Bible as Canon and as Word of God: Exploring the Mystery of Revelation
Lydia Harder
Other Articles
- Anthony Bartlett’s Concept of Abyssal Compassion
and the Possibility of a Truly Nonviolent Atonement
David Eagle
- Reading the Anabaptists:
Anabaptist Historiography and Luther Blisset’s Q
Jeremy Garber
Book Reviews
- Lamin Sanneh,
Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel beyond the West
Reviewed by Susan Kennel Harrison
- Craig Bartholomew and Fred Hughes, eds.
Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage
Reviewed by Marlene Kropf
- Karl Koop
Anabaptist-Mennonite Confessions of Faith: The Development of a Tradition
Reviewed by C. Norman Kraus
- Thomas N. Finger
A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, Constructive
Reviewed by Titus F. Guenther
- Daniel Schipani.
The Way of Wisdom in Pastoral Counseling
Reviewed by Marianne Mellinger
- Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays, eds.,
The Art of Reading Scripture
Reviewed by Jo-Ann A. Brant
- Sean Freyne
Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus-Story
Reviewed by Rene Baergen
The
2005 Bechtel Lectures
Mennonites: A Peace Church in Conversation
Dr. Fernando Enns
Mennonite Graduate Student Conference 2004: Religious Texts
The 2005 Bechtel Lectures:
- Dialogue and Diversity in the Ecumenical Movement
Identity and Tolerance in Pluralist Societies
Mennonite Graduate Student Conference 2004: Religious Texts
- Visual Images as Text? Toward a Mennonite Theology of the Arts
Chad Martin
- The Lost Cause: A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Judeo-Christian Myth
of Origin
Christina Reimer
- The Flooded Text: Finding Dry Land in The Wings of the Dove
Jacob Jost
- To What Dies the Bible Refer? On Metaphor and Analogy
Phil Enns
- Reading the Moral Law: A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Moral
Epistemology
David Kratz Mathies
- Origen on the Authorial Intention of Scripture
Jeremy Bergen
Book Reviews
- Dallas Wiebe,
On the Cross: Devotional Poems
Reviewed by Paul Tiessen
- Hans Küng,
My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs
Reviewed by Thomas Finger
- David Augsburger,
Hate-Work: Working Through the Pain and Pleasures of Hate
Reviewed by Howard Zehr
- John Howard Yoder,
The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited
Reviewed by Dennis Stoutenberg
- Loren L. Johns,
The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John
Reviewed by Sheila Klassen-Wiebe
- Jean Janzen,
Piano in the Vineyard;
- David Water-Toews,
The Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite Blues and Recipes.
Reviewed by Ervin Beck
Mennonite
Scholars and Friends
2002 and 2004 forums
Radical Orthodoxy and Radical Reformation:
- What Should Mennonites and Milbank Learn from Each Other?
- Educative Violence or Suffering Love?
- Milbank, Theology, and Stories of the Marginalized
- Is Milbank Niebuhrian Despite Himself?
- What is Radical about Radical Orthodoxy?
Anabaptist Witness in the Public Square:
- Public Theology and Democracy
- Global Anabaptist Faith and North American Democracy
- Anabaptism and Democracy: A Constructive or Deconstructive Relationship?
- In Praise of the Least Oppressive Oligarchy
- Columbus's America and Emerson's America
- Negotiating Democracy: Mennonite Reflections
Book Reviews
- Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs, eds.
Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice,
and Theology
Reviewed by J. Denny Weaver
- C. Arnold Snyder, ed.
Commoners and Community. Essays in Honour of Werner O. Packull
Reviewed by Walter Sawatsky
- Will Schirmer,
Reaching Beyond the Mennonite Comfort Zone: Exploring from
the Inside Out
Reviewed by Sally Schreiner Youngquist
- Jane Rogers Vann,
Gathered Before God: Worship-Centred Church Renewal
Reviewed by Karen Krahn
Gifts
of the Red Tent: Women Creating
Women Doing Theology
2003 Conference
- A Theology of Wonder
Malinda Elizabeth Berry
- A Theology of Welcome
Reta Halteman Finger
- Finding Balance and Harmony in our Wandering
Iris de Leon-Hartshorn
- The 30th Anniversary of the MCC Women's Concerns Committee
Luann Habegger Martin
- And So It Began: On Birthing an Organization
Dorothy Yoder Nyce
- Canadian Women's Concerns
Peggy Unruh Regehr
- My Impressions of the Early Years of the Women's Task Force
Katie Funk Wiebe
Book Reviews
- Jospeh A. Fitzmyer, S.J.
Spiritual Exercises: Based on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
Reviewed by Reta Halteman Finger
- Harry Loewen.
Shepherds, Servants and Prophets: Leadership among the Russian Mennonites
(ca. 1880-1960)
Reviewed by Gary Harder
- William Sloane Coffin. Credo; Warren Goldstein
William Sloan Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience
Reviewed by Kyle Childress
- Ben C. Ollenburger and Gayle Gerber Koontz, eds.
A Mind Patient and Untamed: Assessing John Howard Yoder's Contributions
to Theology, Ethics, and Peacemaking
Reviewed by Malinda Elizabeth Berry
- David B. Greiser and Michael King, eds.,
Anabaptist Preaching: A Conversation Between Pulpit, Pew and Bible
Reviewed by Allan Rudy-Froese
- Robert A. Riall (trans.), Galen A. Peters (ed.).
The Earliest Hymns of the Ausbund: Some Beautiful Christian Songs
Composed and Sung in the Prison at Passau. Published in 1564
Reviewed by Ken Nafziger
Omnibus
Issue featuring
Reflections on Mennonite World Conference
Fourteenth Assembly, 2003
2004 Bechtel Lectures
Particular and Universal: Shaping Twenty-first Century Anabaptist Identity(ies)
Nancy R. Heisey
- Shared Convictions
- Martyrdom as Metaphor: Aspects of Global Anabaptist Witness
Reflections on Mennonite World Conference
Fourteenth Assembly 2003
- “Sharing our Gifts in Suffering and in Joy” and “We
Give What we Have”
Siakra Traore
- Bounteous Blessings in Bulawayo
Barbara Nkala
- More than an Event
Dothan Moyo
- Heaven on Earth
Thomas E. Frank
- Cameras Can’t Catch the Spirit
Erv Wiens
- No Longer Strangers: The Family Circle has Widened
Doris Dubé
- Why We Need the Mennonite World Conference
David Wiebe
Articles
- Anabaptist or Mennonite? Interpreting the Bible
C. Norman Kraus
- A Sixteenth-Century Anabaptist Social Spirituality
Thomas Finger
Book Reviews
- Mary A. Schiedel.
Pioneers in Ministry: Women Pastors in Ontario Mennonite Churches, 1973-2003
Reviewed by Nina B. Lanctot
- Betty Jane Bailey and J. Martin Bailey, eds.
Who are the Christians in the Middle East?
Reviewed by Roy Hange
- Alan Verhey.
Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine
Reviewed by Joseph Kotva
Rudy
Wiebe and the Mennonites: forty years on
- Foreword
- "There was nothing to be read about Mennonites": Rudy Wiebe
and the impulse to make story
Hildi Froese Tiessen
- "Adam, who are you?"
The Genealogy of Rudy Wiebe's Mennonite Protagonists
Edna Froese
- Mennonites in Crisis: Figures of Paradox in Peace Shall Destroy Many
J.D. Mininger
- Listening All the Way Home: Theme and Structure in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter
Than All the World
Jane Hostetler Robinett
- "Believing is seeing": Re-storying" the Self in Rudy
Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World
Maryann Jantzen
- Why Rudy Wiebe is Not the Last Mennonite Writer
Maurice Mierau
- "It almost always begins with these kinds of living stories":
An Interview with Rudy Wiebe
Janne Korkka
- Geoffrey James and Rudy Wiebe. Place: Lethbridge, A City on the
Prarie
Review Essay by Paul Tiessen
- Climbing Mountains That Do Not Exist: The Fiction Writer at Work
Rudy Wiebe
- The Angel of the Tar Sands
Rudy Wiebe
- Mennonite/s Writing: Writers Participating - Photographs
- A Note on Contributors
Book Reviews
- Thomas Yoder Neufeld
Ephesians. Believers Church Bible Commentary
Reviewed by Ched Myers
- Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence
Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous
Nationalism
Reviewed by J. R. Burkholder
- Elmer John Tiessen
Christian Schools and Colleges
Reviewed by Albert J. Meyer
- Samuel Terrien
The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Perry Yoder
- Robert S. Kreider
My Early Years. An Autobiography
Reviewed by Ted Regehr
- Eberhard Bethge
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Theologian. Christian. Man for His Times
Reviewed by Peter Frick
- Daniel Liechty, ed
Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of
Ernest Becker
Reviewed by Peter Blum
Omnibus
Issue
- The 2003 Benjamin Eby Lecture
- Towards a Biblical Theology of Leadership Affirmation
John E. Toews
- Ordination and Pastoral Leadership: A Response to John E. Toews
Loren Johns
- External Growth Factors: Mennonite Churches in Winnipeg
Leo Driedger
- Martyrdom and Eating Jesus: Two Neglected Practices?
Tripp York
Book Reviews
- Massimo Capuani
Christian Egypt: Coptic Art and Monuments through Two Millennia
John W. Kiser
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria
Mary Jo Weaver
Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery
Reviewed by Arthur Paul Boers
- Esther Epp-Tiessen
J.J. Thiessen: A Leader for His Time
Reviewed by Jacob W. Elias
- L. Gregory Jones and Stephanie Paulsell, eds.
The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of Theological Teacher
Reviewed by Lydia Harder
- Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick
Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia: The Story of Abram Dick
and his Colleagues, 1911-1917;
Calvin W. Redekop
The Pax Story: Service in the Name of Christ, 1951-1976
Reviewed by Ted Koontz
- Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Steven D. Reschley,
eds.
Amish and Mennonite Women in History
Reviewed by Esther Epp-Tiessen
- Miroslave Wolf and Dorothy C. Bass, eds.
Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in the Christian Life
Reviewed by Shirley H. Showalter
- Thomas L. Shaffer
Moral Memoranda from John Howard Yoder: Conversations on Law, Ethics
and the Church between a Mennonite Theologian and a Hoosier Lawyer
First review by Daniel Liechty
Second review by Paul Gallagher
- Richard N. Longnecker, ed.
Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament
Reviewed by Mary Schertz
- David Weaver-Zercher
The amish in the American Imagination
Reviewed by Susan Biesecker-Mast
- Anna Lannstrom, ed.
Promise and Peril: The Paradox of Religion as Resource and Threat.
Reviewed by Dorothy Yoder Nyce
The
Challenge of Modernity: Shi'ah Muslim - Mennonite Christian Dialogue
- Foreword
A. James Reimer
- Rationality, Humanity, and Modernism
Hassan Rahimpour
- Keeping Pace with Modernity: Fifty Years of Iranian Intellectual Encounter
with Modernity
Yousef Daneshvar
- The Limits of Modernity
Phil Enns
- From Instrumental Reason to Sacred Intellect
Hamid Parsania
- Pluralist Culture and Truth
David W. Shenk
- A Typology of Responses to the Philosophical Problem of Evil in the
Islamic and Christian Traditions
Jon Hoover
- Public Orthodoxy and Civic Forbearance: The Challenges of Modern Law
for Religious Minority Groups
A. James Reimer
Book Reviews
- J. Denny Weaver
The Nonviolent Atonement
Reviewed by Gerald W. Schlabach
- David Lyon.
Jesus in Disneyland
Reviewed by David J. Wood
- John D. Roth, ed.
Engaging Anabaptism: Conversations with a Radical Tradition
Reviewed by Néstor Medina
Issues
in the Future of Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholarship
- Preface
Jeremy Bergen and Phil Enns
- Mennonite-Nazi Collaboration and the Coming to Terms with the Past:
European Mennonites and the MCC, 1945-1950
Steve Schroeder
- Beyond Declension and Irony: Mennonite History as Community Studies
Brian Froese
- Why Mennonite Pacifists Should be Reformed Epistemologists
Myron A. Penner
- Discipleship Ain't Just about Jesus: or On the Importance of the Holy
Spirit for Pacifists
Paul Martens
- Jesus and the Apostolic Authority
John Zimmerman
- The Sensus Fidei and Mennonite Theology
Jeremy M. Bergen
- "For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you..."
Joel Schmidt
- (Re)Figuring Tradition
Laura Schmidt Roberts
- How to Eat Your Bible: Performance and Understanding for Mennonites
Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel
- The Rule of Theology: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Theology
and Truthfulness
Phil Enns
- Mennonites, Gender, and the Bible in the 1920s and '30s
Jennifer Graber
- Does the Ballot Box Lie Outside the Perfection of Christ?
David Kratz Mathies
Book Reviews
- Michael D. Driedger.
Obedient Heretics: Mennonite Identities in Lutheran Hamburg and Altona
during the Confessional Age
Reviewed by Werner O. Packull
- Christopher D. Marshall.
Crowned With Glory and Honor: Human Rights in the Biblical Tradition.
Reviewed by Wilma Ann Bailey
- Paul A. Bramadat.
The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at
a Secular University
Reviewed by David Seljack
Special
Issue - Is GOD Nonviolent? A Mennonite Symposium
Is God Nonviolent? A Mennonite Symposium
Denver, Colorado, November 2001
- Preface
Ray Gingerich and Ted Grimsrud
- Presentations
Duane K. Friesen, Ted Grimsrud, Gordon D. Kaufman, Paul Keim, Mary
H. Schertz
- Responses
Peter C. Blum, Elaine Swartzentruber, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
- The Shape of the Conversation
Ray Gingerich and Ted Grimsrud
Articles
- Resistance and Nonresistance: The Two Legs of a Biblical Peace Stance
Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
- The Politics of Paul: His Supposed Social Conservatism
and the impact of Postcolonial Readings
Gordon Zerbe
Literary Refractions
- Introduction
Hildi Froese Tiessen
- Five poems by Dallas Wiebe
Book Reviews
- Michael A. King, Fractured Dance: Gadamer and a Mennonite
Conflict over Homosexuality
Reviewed by Philip Bender
- Thomas F. Foust, George R. Hunsberger, J. Andrew Kirk, and Werner
Ustorf, eds.,
A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission after Newbigin
Reviewed by Art McPhee
- Benjamin W. Redekop and Calvin W. Redekop, eds., Power, Authority,
and the Anabaptist Tradition
Reviewed by Cheryl Nafziger-Leis
- Richard J. Mouw, He Shines in All That's Fair: Culture and Common
Grace
Reviewed by Rebecca Slough
Special
Issue - 2002 Bechtel Lectures: Stanley Hauerwas
The 2002 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies
- Hauerwas: Why I'm a Reluctant Convert to his Theology
A. James Reimer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Political Theology
Stanley Hauerwas
- Bonhoeffer on Truth and Politics
Stanley Hauerwas
- Why Bonhoeffer, Why Now? A Response to Stanley Hauerwas's "Dietrich
Bonhoeffer's Political Theology"
Pamela E. Klassen
- Response to Stanley Hauerwas
Fred Shaffer
- Faculty Forum with Stanley Hauerwas
The 2001 Eby Lecture
- Text, Music, and Meaning in a Congregational Song
Kenneth R. Hull
Book Reviews
- Stanley Hauerwas, The Hauerwas Reader: Stanley Hauerwas
Reviewed by Jeremy M. Bergen
- Timothy J. Geddert, Mark. Believers Church Bible Commentary
Reviewed by William Hulitt Gloer
- Mark A. Noll, The Old Religion in a New World:
A History of North American Christianity
Reviewed by Walter Klaassen
- John Howard Yoder, Preface to Theology:
Christology and Theological Method
Reviewed by Craig R. Hovey and John Perry
- Marlene Kropf and Kenneth Nafziger, Singing: a Mennonite Voice
Reviewed by Laurence Martin
Special
Issue - Responding to Terrorism: Is Nonviolence Possible?
Articles
- Roots of Violence, Seeds of Peace
Grace M. Jantzen
- Bread Not Bombs: Social Justice in a Fractured World
Senator Douglas Roche
- Garnets and Pomegranates
Raylene Hinz-Penner
- Nonviolence Works - If Somebody Does the Work
Ivan J. Kauffman
- Autumn, 2001
Judith Miller
- Engaging "Terrorism": The Case of Palestine/Israel
Alain Epp Weaver
- A New National Anthem: the Morning Shower Version
David Waltner-Toews
- Growing Up in a Violent World: Narrow Escapes and the Call to Peacemaking
Fred Guyette
- Responding to September 11 - and October 7 and January 29: Which Religion
Shall We Follow?
J. Denny Weaver
- Two poems
Anna Martin
- Peace and Polyphony: The Case for Theological and Political Impurity
Scott Holland
- Pastors, Prophets, and Patriotism: Leading Pastorally in These Times
Arthur Paul Boers
- peace piece
Patrick Friesen
Special
Issue - The 2001 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist Mennonite
Studies
Articles
- The Russian Mennonite Encounter with the Soviet State, 1917-1955
Terry Martin
1) Revolution and the Search for Accommodation, 1917-1926
2) Collectivization, Famine, and Terror, 1926-1934
3) Terror, Forced Labor, and Internal Exile, 1935-1955
- My Life and Theological Reflection: Two Central Themes
Gordon D. Kaufman
- The Faith to Doubt: A Theological Autobiography
C. Norman Kraus
Refractions
- Four poems from the Tante Tina - Little Haenschen Dialogues
David Waltner-Toews
Special
Issue - Theologies of Service
Articles
- Sunrise, Sunset: Women Serving
Mary T. Malone
- Singing a Subversive Song of Hope
Lydia Neufeld Harder
- Living out Hope from a Place of Exclusion: Service Rooted in Solidarity
Alix Lozano
- In the Belly of a Paradox: Reflections on the Dubious Service of Reflecting
on Service
Gerald W. Schlabach
- Living Rightly in the Land:Reflection on MCC Service in a Postmodern
Era
Judy Zimmerman Herr and Robert Herr
Refractions
- Dreamsongs for Eden
Di Brandt
Articles
- The Mennonite Challenge of Particularism and Universalism: A Liberation
Perspective
John Kampen
- Responses to John Kampen
Nancy R. Heisey
Gilberto Flores
Tom Yoder Neufeld
Malinda E. Berry
- Mennonites as a Plural Minority Church within Pluralism - A German
Perspective
Fernando Enns
- Who Defines Family?
Mennonite Reflection on Family and Sociology of Knowledge
Peter C. Blum
Reflections
- Christianity and the Family: Ancient Challenge, Modern Crisis
Rosemary Radford Ruether
- Harold Who? A Twenty-something Glimpse of the Anabaptist Vision
Valerie Weaver Zercher
Book Reviews
- Duane K. Friesen, Artists, Citizens, and Philosophers: Seeking
the City of Peace
Reviewed by Gordon D. Kaufman
- D.H. Williams, Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism:
A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
Reviewed by Peter C. Erb
- Leo Driedger, Mennonites in the Global Village
Reviewed by Ed Janzen
- Jean Janzen, Tasting the Dust; Sarah Klassen, Simone Weil: Songs
of Hunger and Love
Reviewed by Miriam Pellman Maust
- Susan Biesecker-Mast and Gerald Biesecker-Mast, eds., Anabaptists
and Postmodernity; J. Denny Weaver, Anabaptist Theology in Face
of Postmodernity: A Proposal for the Third Millennium
Reviewed by Phil Enns
Special Issue - Religion and Science
Articles
- Christian Faith in a Scientific Age
Robert Mann
- Is Ethics Also Among the Sciences? An Evaluation of Nancey Murphy
and George Ellis's Theological Proposals
Roland Spjuth
- The Theological Foundations of Deliverance Healing
Lawrence Burkholder
Responses
- Response to Roland Spujuth
Nancey Murphy
- Response to Lawrence Burkholder
Dana Keener
Reflections
- The Evolution of a Christian Botanist
Carl S. Keener
- A Certain Slant of Light: the Physics of Incarnation
Edna Froese
Book Reviews
- Michael W. Higgins, The Muted Voice: religion and the Media
Reviewed by Margaret Loewen Reimer
- John W. Miller, Calling God "Father": Essays on the Bible,
Fatherhood and Culture
Reviewed by Valerie G. Rempel
- Loren L. John, Apocalypticism and Millennialism: Shaping a Believers
Church Eschatology for the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Walter Klaassen
Special Issue - Miroslav Volf, Theologian at Yale University Divinity
School
- Miroslav Volf and Maurice Lee, "The Spirit and the Church."
- Responses by Clark Pinnock, David E. Demson, Irma Fast Dueck, Peter
C. Erb
- Conversations with Miroslav Volf, with response by Tom Yoder Neufeld
- Gerald Shenk, Review of Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration
of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation, by Miroslav Volf
Special Issue: Living with a History of Suffering: Theological Meaning
& the Soviet Mennonite Experience
Articles
- Waldemar Janzen. "Time of Terror: Biblical-Theological Perspectives
on Mennonite Suffering during the Stalin Era and World War II."
- Henry Paetkau. "Suffering Servants: Pastoral Leaders in the Stalinist
State."
- Walter Sawatsky. "Dying For What Faith: Martyrologies to Inspire
and Heal or to Foster Christian Division?"
- Arnold Neufeldt-Fast. "Gott kann! Gott kann nicht! The Suffering
of Soviet Mennonites and their Contribution to a Contemporary Mennonite
Theology."
Responses
- Leonard G. Friesen. "More than Sheep to Slaughter: Reflections
on Mennonites and the Stalinist Terror."
- Carol Penner. "The Suffering Church Built Like an Ark."
Reflections
- Werner Fast. "A Story of Family."
Literary Refractions
- Rudy Wiebe. "Living on the Iceberg: 'The Artist as Critic and
Witness' 36 Years Later."
Articles
- Jeff Gundy. "Scatter Plots: Depression, Silence and Mennonite
Margins"
- Daniel Liechty. "Communication Technology and the Development
of Consciousness: Reframing the Discussion of Anabaptists and Postmodernity"
- Paul G. Doerksen. "For and Against Milbank: A Critical Discussion
of John Milbank's Construal of Ontological Peace"
- Earl Zimmerman. "Fleeing Babylon: Menno's True Church in a Corrupt
World"
Reflections
- Eric Friesen. "Between Gospel and the Classics: Bridging Musical
Worlds"
Literary Refractions
- Sarah Klassen. "Days of Noah"
Articles
- Hans-Juergen Goertz. "Conrad Grebel: A Provisional Life"
- Royden Loewen. "Making Menno: The Historical Images of a Religious
Leader"
- Linda Boynton Arthur. "Cloth, Constraint and Creativity: The
Engendering of Material Culture Among the Holdeman Mennonites"
Reflections
- Ivan Emke. "'Is That the Time Already?' Reflections of Millennial
Fatigue Syndrome"
- Gregory Baum. "God and Reason"
Literary Refractions
- Dallas Wiebe. "Love in Old Age"
Articles
- Perry Bush, "Vietnam and the Burden of Mennonite History"
- J. Denny Weaver, "The General versus the Particular: Exploring
Assumptions in 20th Century Mennonite Theologizing"
- Thomas Finger, "Appropriating Other Traditions While Remaining
Anabaptist"
- P Thomas Kroeker, "Anabaptists and Existential Theology"
Literary Refractions
- Andreas Schroeder, "Eating My Father's Island: Excerpts from
a Novella"
Power & Authority in the Mennonite Church (Conference Proceedings
from Consultation II, October 16-17, 1999)
Articles
- J. Nelson Kraybill, "Power and Authority: Helping the Church
Face Problems and Adapt to Change"
- Celia Allison Hahn, "Patterns of Growth in Authority"William
Klassen, "Pilgram Marpeck and Our Use of Power"
Shorter reflections
- Power and Money, Power and Leadership, The Church as Employer, Power
in Business and Church, Personal Stories, Observer Responses
Special Issue on Arts & Aesthetics
Articles
- Margaret Loewen Reimer, "Mennonites and the Artistic Imagination"
- Magdalene Redekop, "The Painted Body Stares Back: Five Female
Artists and the 'Mennonite' Spectator"
- Cheryl Nafziger-Leis, "A Dialogue with Adorno: So, What about
the Impossibility of Religious Art Today?
- Phil Stoltzfus, "Performative Envisioning: An Aesthetic Critique
of Mennonite Theology"
Reflections
- Julie L. Musselman, "From Anna Baptist and Menno Barbie to Anna
Beautiful"
- Carol Ann Weaver, "When Two Plus Two is More Than Four: A Saga
of Collaborations"
Literary Refractions
- Dallas Wiebe, Prose: "Can a Mennonite be an Atheist?"
- Jeff Gundy, Poetry: "Driving with Rumi" "The Little
Clerk"
- Julia Kasdorf, Poetry: "'78 Chevy"
Special Issue on John Howard Yoder
Articles
- James Reimer, "Mennonites, Christ, and Culture: The Yoder Legacy"
- Chris K. Huebner, "Mennonites and Narrative Theology: The Case
of John Howard Yoder"
- Duane K. Friesen, "Toward a Theology of Culture: A Dialogue with
John Howard Yoder and Gordon Kauffman"
- Mark Thiessen Nation, "He Came Preaching Peace: The Ecumenical
Peace Witness of John H. Yoder"
- William Klassen, "John Howard Yoder and the Ecumenical Church"
- John W. Miller, "In the Footsteps of Marcion: Notes Toward an
Understanding of John Yoder's Theology"
Reflections
- Memorial Tributes to John Howard Yoder, by Tom Yoder Neufeld, Mary
Ellen Meyer, Stanley Hauerwas, Father David Burrell, David A. Shank,
Erland Waltner
Literary Refractions
- Rudy Wiebe, Prose: "Flowers for Approaching the Fire"
- Sarah Klassen, Poetry: "Three Poems"
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