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""A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity."" -- Mennonite Quarterly Review.
The Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite churches immeasurably, especially when their governments battled each other. This volume recounts those torturous and formative experiences. Seldom have the distinguishing features of the Dutch, the French, the German, the Swiss, the Russian -- and more recently, the U.K. and the Spanish-Mennonite churches been examined. These churches' cultural and historical differences are significantly unique, and they are a key part of the history told in these chapters by European Mennonite historians and church leaders. The Umsiedler, with their sheer numbers and religious vigor, are a current force included in this ongoing story. Testing Faith and Tradition is the second volume in the Global Mennonite History Series.
Over the past decade, scholars and policy makers interested in Canadian multiculturalism have begun to take religion much more seriously. Moreover, Christian communities have become increasingly aware of the impact of ethnic diversity on church life. However, until very recently almost no systematic academic attention has been paid to the intersection between the ethnic and religious identities of individuals or communities. This gap in both our academic literature and our public discourse represents an obstacle to understanding and integrating the large numbers of "ethnic Christians," most of whom either join existing Canadian churches or create ethnically specific congregations. In Christi...
Reflections by Lois Barrett, Di Brandt, Art DeFehr, Victor G. Doerksen, George K. Epp, Peter C. Erb, Abraham Friesen, John Friesen, Patrick Friesen, Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Johannes Harder, Gordon D. Kaufman, Walter Klaassen, William Klassen, Hedy Leonora Martens, Carol A.N. Martin, John S. Oyer, Peter Penner, Calvin Redekop, John H. Redekop, Magdalene Redekop, Al Reimer, F.J. Ross, John Schroeder, George Shillington, Walter Unger, Roy Vogt, Bernie Wiebe, Katie Funk Wiebe, and John H. Yoder.
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