Author: Hermann Gottlieb Mannhardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

View

Book Description

Author: Werner O. Packull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

View

Book Description

Author: Mark Jantzen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

View

Book Description
Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform.

Author: Harold S. Bender
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197224
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 29

View

Book Description
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.

Author: Mark Jantzen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487525540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

View

Book Description
European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.

Author: Benjamin W. Goossen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

View

Book Description
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.

Author: Peter J. Klassen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

View

Book Description
Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.

Author: John P. R. Eicher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

View

Book Description
Explores how religious migrants engage with the phenomenon of nationalism, through two groups of German-speaking Mennonites.

Author: Johann E. Pritzkau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894791335
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 185

View

Book Description

Author: Balthasar Hubmaier
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781496180001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 48

View

Book Description
They denounced the kind of reformation proposed by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin as a halfway affair. They believed in a national state church no more than they believed in the Roman church. To them religion was the intimate concern of each individual soul, and the church was a voluntary society of the regenerate, who had been saved by faith in Christ and were living obediently to Christ's principles.