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Chosen Nation
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 modifie...
In Search of Peace and Prosperity
This volume brings together essays by leading German and American historians on the subject of German emigration in the eighteenth century when Germans were moving to a variety of destinations: Russia, Prussian Lithuania, and various other German territories as well as North America.What drove men and women from different regional and social backgrounds to leave their homes during this time? Some migrations were forced, as for the Mennonites, the Salzburger emigrants, and the French Huguenots; some were voluntary and determined by the wish for one's own land and greater social and economic opportunity. In all groups, religion was a prominent motivator and primary element of social identification and cohesion. Inevitably, migrants carried with them traditional skills and other indispensable cultural "baggage." A key strength of this book is that contributors emphasize the mutual exchanges that occurred among cultures.
Bibliotheksverzeichnis der Mennonitengemeinde zu Hamburg Altona
Dieses Buch, der Katalog der Bibliothek der Mennonitengemeinde zu Hamburg und Altona, ist der vorläufige Endpunkt einer langen Entwicklung. Die Pastoren der jungen Mennonitengemeinde in der kleinen Stadt Altona haben damals (seit 1601) selbstverständlich Bücher besessen und fleißig benutzt. Sie haben auch Bücher weiter gesammelt und ihre Bibliotheken ihren nachfolgenden Pastorenkollegen hinterlassen. Durch die Jahrhunderte hindurch kam eine stattliche Zahl von Büchern zusammen, die aber auch regelmäßig durch Feuer, Feuchte, Vernachlässigung, Krieg und sogar Verkauf vermindert wurde. Bis Anfang der 1970er Jahre wurde der Bestand auf dem Dachboden der Gemeinde gelagert. Die Erinnerung...
Only the Sword of the Spirit
Only the Sword of the Spirit reconstructs the development of Menno Simon's "anabaptist Vision and methodically traces its evolution through the entire northern stream of Mennonites in Holland, Prussia, North Germany, Russia, and North America....It concludes with an appeal for the recovery of a relevant version of Menno Simon's 16th century vision for our own times.o
A Meditation on Going Home
Delbert Wiens was born during the depression to an ethnic, German-speaking, Mennonite family. As an adult, he became the righteous older sibling who wanted, oddly, to identify with his elders. Returning home to Corn, Oklahoma, with a severe case of culture shock after living in Vietnam, he wrote New Wineskins for Old Wine to tell Mennonites they were succumbing to “evangelical” forms of “modernism.” Unfortunately, the relentlessness of his analysis convinced many that he had a “dangerous mind.” This book tells the story of his recovery of the wisdom of his elders. In response Wiens develops metaphors like concrete and abstract to clarify how civilizations evolve. He centers his a...
