A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara

ISBN-13: 9780252064968 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 184 str.

Jeff Gundy; G. Douglas Atkins; Jeffrey Gene Gundy

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Using family photos, records, recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with refrigerators. He also follows them intellectually, from a strict to a broader interpretation of religious doctrine in the 1870s, which led to a schism within the already small Mennonite community; from a longstanding position on pacifism and conscientious objection to some questioning of this stance during World War II.