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Wenger, John C. |
John C. Wenger's Introduction to Theology is a good Biblical study, and the best Mennonite Theology written to date. It is again in print. Hardcover. 411 pp. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Andrew V. St. Marie, Mike… |
The second volume in the Cross Bearers Series, I Appeal to Scripture is a well-researched, accessible biography of Jacob Amman, remembered as the founder of the Amish. He has often been viewed as a troublemaker whose zeal for a pure church led to schism, but he was also a humble… |
Advanced ⋅ Advanced Readers ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Bender, Harold S. |
This classic statement about the distinctives of Anabaptist belief was given as the presidential address to the 1943 meeting of the American Society of Church History. 48 pages. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Donald Martin |
Written by an Old Order historian, Joy in Submission traces the development of the Anabaptist tradition through the five centuries since its birth. This is a well-researched examination of Anabaptists' interaction with external cultural and religious forces, offering a challenging critique of many positions modern Anabaptists take for granted. 199… |
Advanced ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Klassan, Friesen, and Packull |
The South German/Austrian Anabaptist branch of the Anabaptist family was unique for its mystical origins and spiritualist emphases, its early fascination with the End Times, and for the communal forms of Anabaptism that evolved from these beginnings. From influential pre-Anabaptist writings by Jorg Haugk von Juchsen and Hans Hergott… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Yoder, John Howard |
Using the text of the New Testament, this engaging study critically examines the traditional portrait of Jesus as an apolitical figure and clarifies the true impact of Jesus' life, work, and teachings on his disciples' social behavior. This second edition is updated and expanded. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Kauffman, Daniel |
Edited by Daniel Kauffman, this book includes discussions on the Trinity, man, his redeemed state, death, angels, Satan, and marriage, with numerous Scripture references. 640 pages. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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John Roth |
The special value of this interpretative history comes from the author connecting the past to the present. Roth positions Anabaptist-Mennonite history within the larger sweep of church history beginning at Pentecost. His selection of stories follows a rough chronological timeline and worldwide scope. While the latter chapters reflect the perspective… |
Advanced ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Tiessen, Isaac |
The author's life story, but more broadly the .story of the Mennonites in Russia and the Ukraine in the first quarter of the twentieth century. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Finger, Thomas N. |
In this comprehensive volume Thomas N. Finger takes on the formidable task of making explicit the often implicit theology of the Anabaptist movement and then presenting, for the sake of the welfare of the whole contemporary Christian church, his own constructive theology. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Dyck, Cornelius J. |
A unique resource for a generation, the preeminent textbook in its field. Cornelius J. Dyck interacts with the many changes in Anabaptist/Mennonite experience and historical understandings in this revised and updated edition. This is a history of Mennonites from the 16th century to the present. Though simply written, it… |
Advanced ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Peter Riedemann |
One of the most articulate and biblically grounded voices of the Radical Reformation, Peter Riedemann was only twenty-three when he penned this impassioned confession of faith in the gloom of a sixteenth-century Austrian dungeon. Already a noted Anabaptist leader, Riedemann called fellow persecuted Christians to witness to a love that, “… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Simons, Menno and Wenger, John… |
This English edition of Menno Simons’ writings contains all the known writings of Menno, including several tracts, letters, and hymns never previously translated. The entire contents of this edition were translated from the Dutch by Leonard Verduin of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and edited by J. C. Wenger, who wrote clarifying… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Roth, John D. (Edt) |
Conversations with a radical tradition. Richard Mouw, Nancey Murphy, Stanley Hauerwas, along with 12 other Protestant or Catholic scholars reflect on how their understandings of the Christian faith have been shaped by their encounter with the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. 220 pages. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Yoder, John H. |
John H. Yoder, editor and translator. In the historic meeting held in 1527 at Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith which became known as the Schleitheim Confession. One chapter from The Legacy of Michael Sattler. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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John L. Ruth |
John Ruth provides a lively account and some little known insights concerning Mennonite community life in America 200 years ago. |
Advanced ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Estep, William Roscoe |
Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believers' baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism by noted church historian William R. Estep offers a vivid chronicle… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Guy F. Hershberger |
Guy Hershberger made a significant contribution to the development of peace theology in the (Old) Mennonite Church. Perhaps the greatest service of this book is to explain clearly the centuries-old doctrine of nonresistance as understood by Mennonites in the mid-1900s. Although nonresistance was held as a doctrine since the… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Ethics ⋅ Theology |
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Yoder, John Howard |
John Howard Yoder's classic book first published in 1971, includes a treatment of Jewish pacifism, bibliographies, an index, and three new appendixes: Speaking Truth to Power, Quaker Political Witness; The Spectrum of Nonpacifist Postures; and Nonviolent National Defense Alternatives. Yoder points out assumptions, strengths, and shortcomings of each pacifist position… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Kaybill, Donald B. |
An intriguing study of the kingdom of God in the Gospels. Donald B. Kraybill says social, religious, and economic practices of the dominant culture usually favor the rich, powerful, prestigious. Jesus, on the other hand, favors those who suffer at society's margins and fall between the cracks. Winner of… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Andrew V. Ste. Marie |
The second volume in the Cross Bearers Series, I Appeal to Scripture is a well-researched, accessible biography of Michael Sattler, one of most influential leaders in the first years of the Anabaptist movement. Numerous quotations from primary sources provide historical veracity, while extensive sidebars and illustrations introduce readers to the… |
Advanced ⋅ Advanced Readers ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Liechty, Daniel |
Liechty presents selections from writings of the Anabaptist movement that illustrate the Anabaptists' distinctive approach to Christian spirituality. The writings represent the multiple origins of Anabaptism, with selections from three main groupings: Swiss, South German/Austrian, and North German/Dutch. 304 pages. |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Andrew V. Ste. Marie and… |
The first volume in the Cross Bearers Series, March Forward with the Word is a well-researched, accessible biography of Conrad Grebel, one of the original founders of the Anabaptist movement. Numerous quotations from primary sources provide historical veracity, while extensive sidebars and illustrations introduce readers to the cultural context of… |
Advanced ⋅ Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Church ⋅ History |
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Snyder, C. Arnold |
The unabridged version of Anabaptist History and Theology, published in 1995, received high praise from reviewers. One called the book "a masterful survey," while another concluded that the book "tells the Anabaptist story with impressive synthetic power." Anabaptist History and Theology: Revised Student Edition follows the same narrative format and story… |
Anabaptist History and Thought |
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Translated and edited by Walter… |
This anthology provides the best introduction to the core beliefs and foundational principles of Anabaptism. This comprehensive book compiles the writings and statements of thirty-seven sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Selections are arranged under topics such as baptism, the church, nonresistance, Jesus the Word, government, the cross, suffering, discipleship, and relations to other… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books |
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When man fell into sin in the Garden of Eden, God had a plan ready to redeem him. Because of His love for man, God sent Jesus Christ, His Son, to give His life on the cross to make grace available for all who would receive it. The grace of… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books |
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Snyder, C. A. |
Today more than 1.5 million Christians are members of churches which sprouted more or less directly from Anabaptist seed. Who are these Christians? What do they believe? How do they act? What in fact do they hold in common? |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books |
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Where To? Challenges and Opportunities Within Conservative Anabaptism contains five essays written by five different men. Their assignment was to explore the positive dimensions of what God may want to do in, for, and through conservative Anabaptism over the next fifty years. Each writer addressed a different facet of community… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books |
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Brubaker, Brooke |
A story about the first German printing of the Martyrs Mirror in America. |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books ⋅ History ⋅ Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Reading |
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Singmaster, Elsie |
Clouds of war rolled over the Cloister where the Martyrs Mirror was being printed. A knock was heard on the door. It was the soldiers, and they demanded that unbound copies of the Martyrs Mirror be handed over for the military to use as gun wadding. Would a book that… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Books ⋅ History ⋅ Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Reading |
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Scott, Stephen |
Home is the center of Amish life and most life events--birth, marriage, daily work and play, retirement, and even death--happen there. Stephen Scott explores the history and cultural development of three Amish homesteads--each of which has been occupied by the current family of residence for at least four generations. --… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Clearance |
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Horst, Isaac R. |
Isaac R. Horst, an Old Order Mennonite author, explains the customs, beliefs, and culture of his people in Ontario-in English and in Pennsylvania German. Horst presents his community through the story of a typical boy. Menno Martin grows through childhood at home, on the farm, and in school. He attends… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Clearance |
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Kraybill, Donald |
AMISH GRACE explores the many questions the Nickel Mines school shooting raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It looks at the ties between forgiveness and membership in a cloistered communal society and ask if Amish practices parallel or diverge from other… |
Anabaptist History and Thought ⋅ Clearance |