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Response to Conscription and Militarism (Mennonite Church, 1969) ...ent (Mennonite Church, 1969)|Statement]][[Context (Mennonite Church, 1969)|Context]]</h4> <h4>Response to Conscription and Militarism</h4> We are grateful tha

Urban-Racial Concerns (Mennonite Church, 1969) ...urch, 1969)|Statement]] [[Context (Mennonite Church, 1969)|Context]]</h4> Mennonite General Conference received with appreciation the following statement prese

|Box title = Conference of Mennonite Churches in Hong Kong Limited |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?

|Box title = Italian Mennonite Church |Row 3 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?

Amnesty (Mennonite Church, 1975) <h3>Amnesty</h3> A Summary Statement Accepted by [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite General Assembly]] August 5-10, 1975, Eureka, Illinois

|Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? ...100 members.<ref>"2006 Mennonite World Conference Directory for Europe," ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/index.php?option=com_conten

Statement on the Believers' Church (GCMC, 1956) ...of the [[Board of Education and Publication (General Conference Mennonite Church)|Board of Education and Publication]] to be presented to the General Confer

...by James B. Pritchard. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. ME ''The Mennonite Encyclopedia.'' Vol. 5. Edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin. S

...had 23 congregations and in 2009 had 5,014 members.<ref>"North America." ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006carcsam.pdf</ref>. ...grow the Mennonite Church there, and was subsequently commissioned by the Church to do so. 1

Abortion (Mennonite Church, 1975) <h3>Abortion:</h3> A summary statement accepted by Mennonite General Assembly

==9. The Church== ...t composed of those who have been "born again" and have joined the visible Church through water baptism; "there is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are c

General Conference convened at the Lone Tree Church, Moundridge, Kansas, November 23-26, 1896 Moderator: John Holdeman. ...therefore we believe, when a person unites to an organization outside the Church of God, receiving this emblem of water, that it does not signify the truth,

...lation of the Old and New Testaments, in his two major books on Anabaptist-Mennonite ethics.<ref>''War, Peace, and Nonresistance'' included chapters on both Old ...e synagogue has been closer to the teaching of Jesus than has the mainline church. ''The Anchor Bible'' commentary series, edited by W. F, Albright and D. N.

.... The page also provides access to bibliographic information on Anabaptist-Mennonite ecumenical involvements, texts of working papers and formal statements, an [[image:Picture4.png|thumb|550px|right|''Mennonite World Conference President Bishop Danisa Ndlovu and LWF General Secretary R

===From the Early Church to the Sixteenth Century=== ...Martyr and others. The most consistent hermeneutical problem faced by the church was what to make of the literal words of Scripture. Origen dealt with this

...truction to recognize and describe the meaning these texts have had in the context of the tradition history of early Christianity.<ref>Translated and cited by ...storical criticism, while it has the reputation of destructiveness for the church, is “a most conservative process, since historical research conserves the

...ted by Richard E. Palmer, ''Hermeneutics'' (Northwestern University Press, 1969). </ref> It will consist, therefore, of a sampling selected to set forth ce ...r or preacher is very skillful in placing the story or text into a broader context by preserving the main themes from Sunday to Sunday, each short unit will b

...any directions.”<ref>Bernhard W. Anderson, “Tradition and Scripture in the Church,” ''JBL'' 100 (Jan 1981), 5-21. Quotation on p. 5.</ref></blockquote> ...''The Symbolism of Evil,'' trans. Emerson Buchanan (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 349.</ref> In introducing Ricoeur’s essays twenty years later, Lewis