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Author : C. Henry Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597520268
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Smith's Story of the Mennonites written by C. Henry Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Franz
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103910701X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Mutti and Papa written by Bill Franz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Stalin ordered the deportation of Russian citizens of German descent to Siberia. After his father and uncles were sent off to the Gulag, sixteen-year-old Johann Franz volunteered to join the Wehrmacht as an interpreter. This eventually saw him wounded and evacuated to Austria. He met and fell in love with the young Polish-born Ella Weber in a refugee camp in Germany. The product of more than sixty years of reflection, Mutti and Papa is a family history that traces the love story of the parents of author Bill Franz, Mennonite refugees fleeing war-torn Europe, over the course of World War II. The story is largely told through their love letters to one another, across continents, while his father, Johann, awaits immigration to Canada to join his fiancée, Franz’s mother, Ella. Beyond these letters, a patchwork of fascinating secondary sources is consulted to present a fuller picture of the Franz family history, which, in turn, gestures to cultural legacies of Mennonite migration to Canada and involvement in World War II more broadly. Set against the backdrop of the cataclysmic events of the Holocaust and Second World War, the love story of Ella and Johann is at once a fascinating historical account, a happy romance, and an earnest examination of what it’s like to strive for a future while struggling to cope with life as a refugee. Offering a fresh perspective on the layered and nuanced histories of the Holocaust, Mennonite culture, and love during wartime, Mutti and Papa is sure to interest history buffs and romantics alike.
Author : Jan Gleysteen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157910343X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Mennonite Tourguide to Western Europe written by Jan Gleysteen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius J. Dyck
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 083619733X
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Mennonite History written by Cornelius J. Dyck and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique resource for a generation, the preeminent textbook in its field. Cornelius J. Dyck interacts with the many changes in the Anabaptist/Mennonite experience and historical understandings in this revised and updated edition. This is a history of Mennonites from the 16th century to the present. Though simply written, it reflects fine scholarship and deep Christian concern.
Author : Frank H. Epp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802004659
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Mennonites in Canada: 1939-1970 : a people transformed written by Frank H. Epp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.D. Regehr shows how the Second World War challenged the pacifist views of Mennonites and created a population more aware of events, problems, and opportunities for Christian service and personal advancement in the world beyond their traditional rural communities.
Author : Peter J. Klassen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899001
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia written by Peter J. Klassen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when religious conflicts and persecution plagued early modern Europe, Poland and Prussia were havens for Mennonites and other religious minorities. Noted Anabaptist scholar Peter J. Klassen examines this extraordinary example of religious tolerance. Through extensive archival research in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands, Klassen unearths rich material that has rarely, if ever, been studied previously. He demonstrates how the interaction of religious, political, and economic factors created a situation in Poland and Prussia that permitted a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia focuses on the large Mennonite community in these countries. Klassen reveals how the Anabaptist groups were treated and explores whether the uncommon religious freedom they enjoyed gave rise to a flourishing of their faith or a falling away from its central tenets. Early modern Poland and Prussia are virtually ignored in most studies of the Reformation. Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.
Author : Harold Stauffer Bender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Mennonite Encyclopedia written by Harold Stauffer Bender and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin W. Goossen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069119274X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Chosen Nation written by Benjamin W. Goossen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Herold Der Wahrheit written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mennonite Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darryl W. Stephens
Publisher : T&T Clark
ISBN 13 : 0567692787
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Liberating the Politics of Jesus written by Darryl W. Stephens and published by T&T Clark. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold, faithful, challenging – this volume uncovers the social and political implications of the gospel message by looking at Anabaptist theology and practice from a female perspective. The contributors approach the gospel from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, liberating the radical political ethic of Jesus Christ from patriarchal distortions and demonstrating that gender justice and peace theology are inseparable. Beautifully illustrated with pen drawings, Liberating the Politics of Jesus recognizes the authority of women to interpret and reconstruct the peace church tradition on issues such as subordination, suffering, atonement, the nature of church, leadership, and discipleship. The contributors confront difficult topics head-on, such as the power structures in South Africa, armed conflict in Colombia, and the sexual violence of John Howard Yoder. The result is a renewed Anabaptist peace theology with the potential to transform the work of theology and ministry in all Christian traditions.
Author : John Lapp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1680992724
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Testing Faith and Tradition written by John Lapp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite churches immeasurably, especially when their governments battled each other. This volume recounts those torturous and formative experiences. Seldom have the distinguishing features of the Dutch, the French, the German, the Swiss, the Russian -- and more recently, the U.K. and the Spanish-Mennonite churches been examined. These churches' cultural and historical differences are significantly unique, and they are a key part of the history told in these chapters by European Mennonite historians and church leaders. The Umsiedler, with their sheer numbers and religious vigor, are a current force included in this ongoing story. Testing Faith and Tradition is the second volume in the Global Mennonite History Series.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Mennonite Family History written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Herald Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Mennonite Encyclopedia/ Vol 1 written by and published by Herald Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, movements, and places in their relation to Mennonites.This Encyclopedia was jointly edited by historians and scholars of the Mennonite Church, the General Conference of Mennonites, and the Mennonite Brethren Church. More than 2,700 writers contributed articles.Volume V includes updates on materials in the first four volumes plus nearly 1,000 new articles edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin.
Author : American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia written by American Historical Society of Germans from Russia and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Genealogical Guide to German Ancestors from East Germany and Eastern Europe written by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hartmut Lehmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043104
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book In Search of Peace and Prosperity written by Hartmut Lehmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
