Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christianity - Mennonite

More than 450 years after their birth in the Anabaptist movement, 125 years after their secession from Russian Mennonitism, and 60 years after their immigration to Canada, the Mennonite Brethren exhibit specific and measurable signs of sectarian viability and religious vitality. To explain the persistence of the sect, Hamm analyses the process of sacralization within the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Church -- which "safeguards identity, a system of meaning, or a definition of reality" -- and the process of secularization -- which "erodes boundaries, dislodges stable structures, and...

Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. For women who were restricted from leadership positions within the church, these societies became the primary avenue of church involvement. Through them they contributed vast amounts of energy, time and financial resources to the mission activity of the church. The societies thus became a context in which women could speak, pray and creatively give expression to their own...

How do the Historic Peace Churches, specifically the Mennonites and Church of the Brethren, respond when confronted with the ravages of twentieth-century wars? Re-Envisioning Service, this third volume of ACRS (the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society) memoirs reporting on The Geography of Our Faith, focuses on service.

The metamorphosis of Mennonites and Church of the Brethren in the second half of the twentieth century--like a monarch butterfly wiggling its way out of its cocoon--should not pass unnoticed. What are we seeing? What are we witnessing?
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In the midst of tall castles, warring pikemen, dreadful plagues, church decay, and the superstition and darkness of sixteenth-century Europe, the Anabaptist revival burst into flames. One of the first leaders was a partying university dropout who met Christ and was transformed into a fiery preacher, confronting and challenging the greatest reformers of the day. He became co-founder of the Anabaptist movement, which gave rise to the Amish and Mennonites. Excellent for supplemental reading in a Christian history course

On a cold winter day in 1527, a group of persecuted Anabaptists secretly gathered in the town of Schleitheim seeking unity and desiring to clarify where they differed from the established state churches.  The Schleitheim Confession was born from that meeting and soon became popular and influential among the Anabaptists - even to this present day.

Should it matter to us today what some persecuted Christians believed nearly 500 years ago?  Can the convictions they had be backed up Scripturally?

This book examines the Schleitheim Confession in...