Conversations with a radical tradition. Richard Mouw, Nancey Murphy, Stanley Hauerwas, along with 12 other Protestant or Catholic scholars reflect on how their understandings of the Christian faith have been shaped by their encounter with the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. 220 pages.

Ask any person randomly on the sidewalk what they know about the Mennonites and chances are their answer will include Mormons, black clothes and buggies, or general confusion. This short, engaging book gives a brief account of what Mennonites believe. From the beginnings of the Anabaptist (or Mennonite) movement in the 16th-century, to biblical interpretation, baptism, understandings of the church, ethics, and the complex question of denominationalism, John D. Roth provides a solid framework for on-going conversations about faithful discipleship in the Mennonite church today. An online study...

John D. Roth's straightforward, accessible narrative invigorates this contemporary introduction to the Mennonite story. Whether readers are new to the Mennonite community or just yearning for a fresh telling of Anabaptist origins, Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be will serve as a compact digest of the church's history for generations to come.

This volume comprises articles by an international team of twenty-three scholars. The contributions focus on the historical genesis, stylistic and narrative features and evolution of pastoral, both as genre and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine period. Special attention has been paid to the idea of the 'invention of a fictionalized tradition', and to pastoral's thematic and formal relationship with other literary genres. In their totality, the contributions, as well as offering a comprehensive overview of the more or less familiar issues and ideas discussed in connection with pastoral,...

About the Contributor(s): John D. Roth is Professor of History at Goshen College, where he also serves as editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review and director of the Mennonite Historical Library. He is the author of numerous books and articles on subjects related to the Radical Reformation and contemporary Anabaptist and Mennonite theology, including Teaching that Transforms: Why Anabaptist-Mennonite Education Matters (2011).

Con los miles de millones de dolares que se destinan por ano a la educacion de ninos y juveniles, la educacion esta en la primera plana de las noticias de actualidad. John D. Roth defiende una alternativa de la iglesia al sistema de la escuela publica: la alternativa moldeada por el enfasis distintivo de la tradicion anabautista menonita. Ensenanza que transforma describe una pedagogia que toma en cuenta la presencia de Dios en el mundo, cultiva habitos de adoracion, nutre las tradiciones vivas y promueve relaciones humanas de compasion y cuidado mutuo. Roth ofrece un dialogo abierto,...