The Yellow Creek Mennonites
Author: John Christian Wenger
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 306
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Author: John Christian Wenger
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 306
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John C. Wenger
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2000-10-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1579104568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and sympathetic history of all branches of the Mennonites and Amish, including a portrayal of their doctrine, life, and piety. It attempts to present a true picture of the Christian bodies in Indiana and Michigan which are descended from the European Anabaptists of the sixteenth century.
Author: Otis Hochstetler
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ross Lynn Bender
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0271028653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.
Author: James O. Lehman
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-10-28
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1421403900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the American Mennonite and Amish communities response to the Civil War and the effect t it had upon them. During the American Civil War, the Mennonites and Amish faced moral dilemmas that tested the very core of their faith. How could they oppose both slavery and the war to end it? How could they remain outside the conflict without entering the American mainstream to secure legal conscientious objector status? In the North, living this ethical paradox marked them as ambivalent participants to the Union cause; in the South, it marked them as clear traitors. In the first scholarly treatment of pacifism during the Civil War, two experts in Anabaptist studies explore the important role of sectarian religion in the conflict and the effects of wartime Americanization on these religious communities. James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt describe the various strategies used by religious groups who struggled to come to terms with the American mainstream without sacrificing religious values—some opted for greater political engagement, others chose apolitical withdrawal, and some individuals renounced their faith and entered the fight. Integrating the most recent Civil War scholarship with little-known primary sources and new information from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Illinois and Iowa, Lehman and Nolt provide the definitive account of the Anabaptist experience during the bloodiest war in American history. “I found this book fascinating. It is an easy read, with lots of arresting stories of faith under test. Its amazingly thorough research, which comes through on every page, makes the book convincing.” —Al Keim, Shenandoah Mennonite Historian “An impressive work in every way: gracefully written, broadly researched, careful and measured in its conclusions. It is likely to become the definitive work on its subject.” —Thomas D. Hamm, Indiana Magazine of History “In this fascinating study, Lehman and Nolt perform a miraculous feat: they find a small unexplored backwater in the immense sea of literature on the American Civil War.” —Perry Bush, Michigan Historical Review
Author: Beulah S. Hostetler
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2002-03-06
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1579109063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Mennonites and Protestant Movements describes the key religious values in a major Mennonite settlement over a period of three centuries in its encounter with other religious movements: Pietism, revivalism, Fundamentalism, and institutionalization. The author analyzes how Mennonites both resisted these influences and were changed by them. The book also documents the codification of practice in the twentieth century and how restrictions waned as a growing emphasis on peace and service emerged. The author demonstrates that the key values shaping the Mennonite community are religious, not simply ethnic, and are consistent with their sixteenth-century character. These conclusions are based on a careful study of their value patterns, nonverbal behavior, issues and personalities in confrontation, and in the conduct of their community behavior. This book will help a new generation of Mennonites who wish to discover their heritage and spiritual identity. For Christian believers outside the Anabaptist tradition it will clarify long-standing ambiguities about the Mennonites.
Author: Fred Lamar Kniss
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813524238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites have long referred to themselves as "The Quiet in the Land," but their actual historical experience has been marked by internal disquiet and contention over religious values and cultural practice. As Fred Kniss argues in his impressive study of Mennonite history, the story of this sectarian pacifist group is a story of conflict. How can we understand the ironic phenomenon of Mennonite conflict? How do ideas and symbols-both those of the American mainstream and those that are specifically Mennonite-influence the emergence and course of this conflict? What is the relationship betweenintra-Mennonite conflict and the changing historical context in which Mennonites are situated? Through a rigorous analysis of a century of disputes over dress codes, congregational authority, and religious practice, Kniss offers the tools both to understand conflict within a specific religious group and to answer larger questions about culture, ideology, and social and historical change.
Author: LeRoy Bechler
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-02-09
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1579105785
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