Author: John Christian WengerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elkhart County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Yellow Creek Mennonites
Author: John Christian WengerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elkhart County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan
Author: John C. WengerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579104568
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A 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.
Ohio Mennomite Sunday Schools
Author: John Sylvanus UmblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Circles of Sisterhood
Author: Anita Hooley YoderPublisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 1513803069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The saga of Mennonite women’s organizations is a story of struggle and triumph, productivity and misgivings, questions and celebrations. During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, women’s groups have offered Mennonite women a means of serving others by sewing clothing, laboring over quilts, rolling bandages, and packing school kits. Women’s groups have also provided Mennonite women the opportunity to test their skills as leaders and give voice to callings they felt in a church that has not always valued their gifts for ministry. In this vibrant portrait of Mennonite Women USA, Anita Hooley Yoder paints with both broad and subtle strokes the one-hundred-year history of an organization that nurtures local church women’s groups and connects Mennonite women across the world.
The Mennonite Quarterly Review
Author: No Strings Attached
Author: Rachel Nafziger HartzlerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621896358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
No Strings Attached is the story of a Mennonite congregation in Indiana that existed for eighty-six years. The congregation began during the social and religious turmoil of the 1920s when some Mennonites in North America held to rigid doctrines and ethics implemented by central authority, and others operated with a congregational polity and became more assimilated into secular culture. The struggle between these two different understandings of faithfulness was most passionately played out in northern Indiana. Placing the narrative of this congregation within the context of 500 years of Mennonite history illustrates the grace and the tension that has both beset and empowered a unique group of people who began as radical reformers. Although "no strings attached" refers to the women's headwear during the 1920s, which had no strings, it could also be the story of the pastor eating lunch on the peak of the steep roof of the church building! Reflecting on stories of these Mennonite people is an invitation to move into the future with courageous hope. Believing and behaving differently has not prevented Middlebury Mennonites from treating each other respectfully, living in a community of love, joy, and peace, and offering God's healing and hope to each other and to the world.
Smith's Story of the Mennonites
Author: C. Henry SmithPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597520268
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
American Mennonites and Protestant Movements
Author: Beulah Stauffer HostetlerPublisher: Herald Press (VA)
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Beulah Stauffer Hostetler describes how Pietism, revivalism, Fundamentalism, and institutionalization affected the key religious values of American Mennonites over a period of three centuries. She documents the codification of practice in the 20th century and its subsequent dissolution along with the growing emphasis on peace and service. Hostetler helps a new generation of Mennonites who wish to discover their heritage and spiritual identity. For other Christians, it will clarify long-standing ambiguities about the Mennonites. Volume 28 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series.
History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger
Author: Jonas G. WengerPeace, Faith, Nation
Author: Theron F. SchlabachPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556351976
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
'Peace, Faith, Nation' tells the story of Mennonite and Amish life in nineteenth-century America -- stories of families, of churches, of communities. It tells of work and play, of moving and settling, of struggling with citizenship, of various means (including the Old Order ways) of church renewal. It is a Mennonite history but also an American history. At its heart it tells of response to the nationalist, individualistic, aggressive, and progressive spirit of America. Most Mennonites were quiet, peace-oriented, communal, and humility-minded. Yet the American spirit beckoned -- especially as it often came through Protestant revivalism and promised religious renewal.