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Tshidimu, Franck Mukendi. Le Centenaire de la Mission mennonite au Congo-Kinshasa (1912-2012), cas de la 27ème Communauté Mennonite au Congo. Quelle vision?
...inshasa (1912-2012), cas de la 27ème Communauté Mennonite au Congo. Quelle vision? ...ollowing excerpt from the introduction the author gives an overview of the text.

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Ezekiel's Political Theology (in Ezekiel)
...s on the theology of the book of Ezekiel from the perspective of his final vision. ...f Ezekiel tells about ''the victory of the rule of God''. Ezekiel’s temple vision is the climax of a movement throughout the book, a movement which compares

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A Resolution to Laugh with Abraham and Sarah (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1992)
==Text== ...urch provide staffing in church planting to enable the fulfillment of this vision, to be implemented when funding for such staffing is committed;<br><br>

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Online Anabaptist-Mennonite Library
These full-text documents represent a variety of Mennonite denominations over an extended p ...family:sans-serif;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding-left:0.2em;padding-top: 0.2em;padding-bottom:

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Resolution on Health Care in the United States (Mennonite Church, 1993)
===Text=== As Mennonite Christians, we affirm the following vision of a more effective and just health care system and commit ourselves to spe

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Recommendation on Exploring MC/GC Integration (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1989)
[[Text (1989)|Text]] [[Commentary on the Text (1989)|Commentary on the Text]]

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Nuptial Imagery in the New Testament (in Song of Songs)
...r be heard in you [Babylon] again" (Rev 18:23b). Chapter 19 follows with a vision of Christ's victory, which is described with nuptial imagery: ...this bride's husband is called "the Lamb" (Rev 21:9). In this apocalyptic vision of John of Patmos, nuptial imagery joins with other imagery and language to

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A Resolution on Health Care (General Conference Mennonite Church U.S. Assembly, 1992)
==Text== ...o actively work to help bring it about. Therefore, we affirm the following vision of a health-care system and commit ourselves to specific actions to work to

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Christian Stewardship of Energy Resources (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
...ive apart from the environment God has created to sustain us. The biblical text reminds us of this by indicating that humankind does not have a separate da ...xamine our life-styles and consumption patterns in the light of our unique vision and new awareness.

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Revelation
...me time. Nevertheless, the inspiration of the Book of Revelation is in the vision of Christ, not the human author.</p> :The Vision of Christ 1:1-20

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Christians and Old Testament (as) Law (in Deuteronomy)
...rited love, precedes any call for response or law. And it does this in its vision for the future; in the end, God's grace will overcome the law/punishment dy ...it. Old Testament legal-like material contributes to the fullness of this vision, but also important are the stories, the prophetic announcements, and the p

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The Call from Colombia to MC Canada (2000)
==Text== ...ng a similar amount of money from the European governments within the same vision found in the so-called "Plan Colombia", which seeks to gain military advant

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Isaiah
...wn in detail, God's will for the future can typically be seen in prophetic vision. The prophet announces this future as the point of departure for a call to ...1) opens the chapter, and as chapter 40 continues, it enlarges on Isaiah's vision two centuries earlier.

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Genocide and Sacred Violence (in Joshua)
...tion, and its necessary ideological justification disguised as theological vision. Birch and his coauthors suggest that Joshua reflects a tension between “ ...nomic Torah. That is, this is a land revolution that is driven by a social vision with a particular interest” (187).

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Worship in Revelation (in Revelation)
From the vision of heaven in chapter 4 comes the classic hymn by Reginald Heber (1723-1826) The vision of the Lamb in chapter 5 is the basis for Edward Perronet’s (1726- 1792)

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The Call and Care of Pastors (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
...ive apart from the environment God has created to sustain us. The biblical text reminds us of this by indicating that humankind does not have a separate da ...xamine our life-styles and consumption patterns in the light of our unique vision and new awareness.

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How Christian Communities Emerge (in 1 & 2 Thessalonians)
...ne involved in the ministries of evangelism and church planting. What this text provides is not a strategy but rather a theological framework for understan Catching this beautiful vision of an experimental garden, of crocuses in the snow, present-day missioner

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The Anabaptist Ideal and a Funk Band, Luke D Miller, April 1999 (United States)
this ideal from Harold S. Bender's Anabaptist Vision. His essay has been major points for the Anabaptist vision were a new conception of

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Salvation and the Destruction of Enemies (in Joel/Obadiah/Micah)
...rage us to be sympathetic because of the suffering and loss from which the vision comes. All three books reached their final form in the postexilic era, afte ...he salvation of God’s people is not the same as defending this vision. The vision is extremely dangerous in ways that should be named and confronted.

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Anabaptist Dictionary of the Bible
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War, Warfare (in Isaiah)
...history that is driven, not by the pride of empires and emperors, but by a vision of God’s universal judgment, which will result in a new era of peace and ...ive reflection on the practice of war. For example, in Isaiah 2:2–4 is the vision of an end to war and an end to the preparation for war. The prophet Isaiah

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The Authority of the Canon
...was developed in response to the High Tridentine Catholic (hereafter HTC) vision, itself a response to the critique of the Protestant reformers. Only with t ...culture of the Protestant Scholastic movement. Neither is justified by the text of the Bible itself. Neither is demanded by a Protestant commitment to use

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Christ/Christology (in Matthew)
*Meier, John P. ''The Vision of Matthew: Christ, Church, and Morality in the First Gospel''. New York: P {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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Political Power (in Ecclesiastes)
...l ethics,” in Smith-Christopher: 163–73). At any rate, Qohelet does have a vision for change. He believes people can live in wholesome ways that challenge th {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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A Church of Many Peoples Confronts Racism (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1989)
<h3>Text</h3> "Many Peoples Becoming God's People" is the theme of this joint gather ...eded today. Let us pray for courage to be a people of God who fulfill that vision.

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Daniel
...often attributed to well-known personalities of the past. The stories and vision of the Book of Daniel do not require Daniel's authorship any more than the ...3:29; 4:1; 5:19; 6:25; 7:14). It contains five stories and one vision. The vision in Chapter 7 completes the Aramaic section.

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Psalms
...erse 17 offers a pivotal perspective—the sanctuary of God offers a renewed vision. God alone is the psalmist's strength (73:26), the perverse will slip and f {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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Guidelines for Writers
...hristian church. Authors should not shrink from articulating a theological vision within the theological space provided by ecumenical dialogue. The ADB shoul ...ppreciate the lenses by which readers and the reading community engage the text. In writing for the ADB, authors of articles are asked to eschew modernisti

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Theology of Warfare (in Joshua)
...on. In other words, I have tried to demonstrate, in a close reading of the text, that the book of Joshua is not a conquest account and that its theological Throughout this commentary I have argued that the Bible is a “text in travail,” borrowing a phrase from René Girard (141). The book of Josh

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Violence and War (in Judges)
...Isa 2:1–5; 9:6–7; 11:1–9; Mic 4:6–7; Jer 23:5–8; Zech 9:9–10). In Isaiah’s vision at least, God’s people are encouraged to begin modeling that peace in the {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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Violence and War in Judges
...Isa 2:1–5; 9:6–7; 11:1–9; Mic 4:6–7; Jer 23:5–8; Zech 9:9–10). In Isaiah’s vision at least, God’s people are encouraged to begin modeling that peace in the {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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1 & 2 Chronicles
...tant, because on other occasions the Chronicler interprets and changes the text he uses to develop his theology. ...kiah (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chron 32:32); the records of Judah in Kings are the vision of Isaiah in Chronicles. The account of Hezekiah in 2 Kings 18:17–20:19 i

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The Christian and Nuclear Power (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1959)
...distrust, and national and racial tensions have all too often blurred our vision of God's will and purpose for us. We are too much involved in these pagan p ...class="gameo_bibliography">The Mennonite</em> 74 (September 8, 1959): 549. Text of the statement.

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Ezekiel
...isplays symbolic acts. In North America, Ezekiel may be best known for the vision of the wheels (chs. 1, 10, 11) and the valley of dry bones that come to lif ...nd prophecies about God’s Spirit, e.g., ch. 36 and the Valley of Dry Bones vision in ch. 37.

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Teaching the Bible in the Congregation, by Ross T. Bender
This text I heard frequently as a boy in church and it left an indelible impression o ...egation. I claim no perfection in the way my people lived out the biblical vision but I did experience authenticity then and I recognize it now in '''<span s

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Strategies for Interpreting Problematic Texts (in Joel/Obadiah/Micah)
...in seeking to report God’s deeds and words. But they were human, and their vision was constrained by the limitations of their life experience, the theologica ...s of Scripture reflect the fullness of God’s will. Arguing with a specific text can be an act of faithfulness (Gench: 12–14). That is why at various poin

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1 & 2 Thessalonians
...icits Paul’s pastoral instruction and encouragement. The Believers Church vision of communal life and mission resonates with Paul’s longing for the church ...a summary of how past, present, and future are all wrapped into one grand vision of the reality of this Christian community: “You turned toward God away f

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Beyond the Historical-Critical Method
...“the second naivete,” a post-critical posture toward the text in which the text speaks to us with full power. Anderson extended the challenge of Paul Ricoe ...stages: critical analysis of the interpreter followed by communion between text and interpreter, the goal of interpretation. This then will enable Scriptur

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The Hermeneutics of the Anabaptists
...for the same reason be closed to all that they have to say—a most hopeless vision of the ecumenical effect of historical perspective. ...e of reality lying behind each language. One can no longer assume that any text, especially if it has been translated from another language, as all the Bib

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Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa, Indonesia
...ifficult for church leaders to get a strong grasp on a uniquely Anabaptist vision within Indonesia, and preventing an Anabaptist approach to relationships wi ...uding GITJ, in terms of theology, education, and institutions. Most of the text is background historical context, but some description of GITJ’s modern p

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Schleitheim Confession (source)
[NOTE: this translation was done by John H. Yoder, based on a version of the text prepared by Heinold Fast for ''Quellen zur Geschichte der Taufer in der Sch ...most naturally be translated "reconciliation" or "atonement"; later in the text, in the passive participle form, it will mean "to be brought to unity." Thu

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Ecumenical Dialogue
...espond to BEM: Official Responses to the ‘Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry’ Text''. Vol. VI. Faith and Order Paper No. 144. Geneva: WCC, 1988, 104-114. || ...itchener, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2007. || English translation of the German text cited above.

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Conquest and Land in the New Testament (in Joshua)
...he promise of land in creative ways, many of which are consistent with the vision of the OT in general, and perhaps even with the book of Joshua. In the beat {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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Statement on Abortion (Mennonite Church USA, 2003)
* Hays, Richard B. ''The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics'' 3 The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics b

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Ephesians
The vision informing this letter is thoroughly—<br> ...course, seem nonsensical to have so many “centers.” On the other hand, the vision informing Ephesians does not allow us to push any one of these out of the c

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Proverbs
...expression on the very first pages of the Bible, in Genesis 1. It is this vision that manifests itself in Psalm 104, where the psalmist exclaims: “How man ...2:22-23). It was in this hope-filled interlude that some in Judah caught a vision of a better world without war (cf. Isa 2:1-5). This interlude is also when

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Wisdom (in Ephesians)
...emphasis on Christ gathering up ''all things'' (1:9-10) is a generosity of vision informed by the comprehensive horizon of wisdom. {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"

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The Hermeneutics of Obedience
...of Lyra, who taught Luther to attend to the original languages and to the text itself, and Faber Stapulensis. Stapulensis emphasized the role of the Spiri ...t. He took the '''<span style="color: red">→51</span>''' words of the text at what he considered to be their face value, urging obedience to the plain

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Amos
...ook portrays Amos as speaking directly for God. Even when the voice in the text is that of the prophet, the implication is still that Amos is delivering Go ...rning, add to the atmosphere of death (5:18-20; 6:1-3; 6:4-7). A series of vision reports, all portraying terrifying destruction, form the core of 7:1–9:10

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Micah
Given the historical context of Micah’s ministry, the text must envision the devastating Assyrian invasion, although the enemy and tim The “swords into plowshares” vision (4:1-5) is one of the best-known passages in Micah, although the version in

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