Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups
Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups

Author: Stephen Scott

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1680992430

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This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form. What holds these people together? Why are they growing in number? Where do they live? The Old Order Mennonites are less well known than the Amish, but are similar in many beliefs and practices. Some Old Order Mennonites drive horses and buggies. Others use cars for transportation. Conservative Mennonite groups vary a great deal, but in general espouse strong faith and family life and believe that how they live should distinguish them from the larger society around them. The author details courtship and wedding practices, methods of worship, dress, transportation, and vocation. Never before has there been such an inside account of these people and their lives. The author spent years conferring and interviewing members of the various groups, trying to portray their history and their story in a fair and accurate manner. An enjoyable, educational, inspiring book.

Through Fire & Water
Through Fire & Water

Author: Harry Loewen

Publisher: Herald Press (VA)

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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Relates the history of the Anabaptist and Mennonite sects from their beginnings in the sixteenth century to the present.

Old Order Mennonites
Old Order Mennonites

Author: Daniel B. Lee

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780830415731

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Lee focuses on the Weaverland Conference of Old Order Mennonites, a group formed in 1893 and now consisting of over 5,000 members. A large concentration of Weaverland Mennonites live in upstate New York near Seneca Falls, and Lee focuses his easily readable sociological study on that community. Individual chapters deal with the worship, rituals, rules, and discipline of the group, and with a number of recent defections to a more mainstream Mennonite Church located in the same area. Lee argues that Weaverland Mennonites are held together by their practices alone, rather than by a common underlying set of beliefs. --Choice Magazine

The Waterloo Mennonites
The Waterloo Mennonites

Author: J. Winfield Fretz

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2010-10-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1554586860

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The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing support, the larger community including the two universities and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and public funding agencies. This book seeks to derive a clearer understanding of the sociological characteristics of a single Mennonite community, beginning with the historical and religious background of the Waterloo Mennonites, reviewing their European origins, their ethnic identification, and their immigration experience. It also examines their basic institutions: religion and church, marriage and the family, education and the school, economics and earning a living, government and how they relate to it, their use of leisure time and methods of recreation. It also looks at the way Mennonites interact with the larger society and how that society responds.

An Introduction to Mennonite History
An Introduction to Mennonite History

Author: Cornelius J. Dyck

Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.

Published: 1993-07-01

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 083619733X

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A unique resource for a generation, the preeminent textbook in its field. Cornelius J. Dyck interacts with the many changes in the 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 reflects fine scholarship and deep Christian concern.

On the Backroad to Heaven
On the Backroad to Heaven

Author: Donald B. Kraybill

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-09-30

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780801870897

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This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.

Together in the Work of the Lord
Together in the Work of the Lord

Author: Nathan E. Yoder

Publisher: Herald Press

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780836195057

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In a cold November of 1910, a group of Conservative Amish Mennonite ministers who shared a theological and cultural heritage gathered in Michigan to support each other in furthering the mission of the church. Together in the Work of the Lord outlines how this group of Anabaptist ministers sought to live out their spiritual heritage within their cultural context, discerning together how to be faithful to the Word and to their tradition while engaging with the world. Author Nathan Yoder chronicles the growth of the Conservative Mennonite Conference from those beginnings into a network of congregations that seeks to be evangelical in theology and witness yet also rooted in Anabaptism. This book of church history does not gloss over the struggles that accompanied Conservative Mennonites as they faced changing practices with regard to plain dress and use of automobiles and sometimes differing definitions of nonconformity, authority, and submission. At the same time, it presents compelling accounts of people called to reach out with a mission focus and establish the church, whether in Kentucky, Ecuador, or just across the street. This is the 47th volume in the Studies of Anabaptist and Mennonite History series.

Vision, Doctrine, War
Vision, Doctrine, War

Author: James C. Juhnke

Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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In the four decades covered by this book, the American Mennonites and Amish nearly doubled in membership. Their encounters with Protestant revivalism, organizational techniques, modernism, and the First World War affected each group differently. This book is the story of those encounters and the changes that resulted from them.