Canadian Prairie Mennonite Ministers' Use of Scripture

Canadian Prairie Mennonite Ministers' Use of Scripture

Author: Donald Stoesz

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2018-02-07

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1525511211

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A chance discovery of a log book of sermons by grand-uncle and Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference minister Cornelius G. Stoesz led Donald Stoesz on a fifteen-year odyssey in which he identified four hundred and fifty-seven Scripture texts used by seventeen Mennonite ministers in Canada over the course of one hundred years (1874-1977). The extensive, yet selective, use of the Lutheran lectionary by these ministers illuminates an aspect of Mennonite church life that has seldom been recognized. Known as the Anweisung der Lieder and located at the front of the German-language hymnbook (Gesangbuch), this lectionary was in use by Mennonite congregations in the 18th and 19th centuries in Prussia and Russia. Stoesz details Scripture usage and arranges sermon texts according to method of selection and topic. Included in this analysis are biographies of three pastors and several translated sermons from 1 Peter.


On Stony Ground

On Stony Ground

Author: James Urry

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2024-03-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1487547404

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On Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russia’s revolution and civil war, immigrated to Manitoba during the 1920s. James Urry examines how they came to terms with a new land and with their new neighbours, including other Mennonites, Ukrainians, French Canadians, and Indigenous Peoples. The book discusses the impact of the Great Depression and how the immigrants struggled with their identity in Canada as Hitler and Stalin rose to power in Germany and the USSR. It reveals the immigrants’ desire to maintain their faith, language, and culture while encouraging their children to take advantage of an education conducted mainly in English. On Stony Ground explores how prosperity following the Second World War helped the immigrants to build a community in conjunction with others, including Mennonites and non-Mennonites, and to accept their new home in Canada.


Reinländer (Old Colony) Gemeinde Buch

Reinländer (Old Colony) Gemeinde Buch

Author: Martha Martens

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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The church building was dedicated by the Reinländer Mennonite Church in the village of Reinland, Manitoba in 1876. The original church register was started in 1880 under the leadership of Ältester Johann Wiebe.


Mennonite Templers

Mennonite Templers

Author: Heinrich Sawatzky

Publisher: Published jointly by CMBC Publications, Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9780920718377

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The Anabaptist Vision

The Anabaptist Vision

Author: Harold S. Bender

Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 0836197224

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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.


Reinland

Reinland

Author: Peter D. Zacharias

Publisher: [Winkler?, Man.] : Reinland Centennial Committee

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780919212992

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Reinland was originally a Mennonite settlement in southern Manitoba.