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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Guatemala
  ...4-6.</ref> Within this context the Guatemalan Mennonite church adopted the vision of alternative community. ...Guatemalan Mennonite church, some theologically trained but most not. The text also provides important historical details and dates within the church’s
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• Paul’s View of the Law (in Galatians)
  ...ates that Paul understands the reference to life in the Habakkuk 2:4 proof text quoted in 3:11 to include this sense. Even though the Law defines true qual ...ision, which creates a barrier between Jew and Gentile and compromises the vision of a people of God inclusive of all nations. In other ways, the earliest Ch
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• Deuteronomy
  Deuteronomy—a book full of life, full of the story of God's people, full of vision for walking in the way of God. Sometimes referred to as "The Gospel accordi Within the world of the text, the setting for Deuteronomy is the border of the Promised Land with Israel
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• Philippians
  ...siah’s regime or the final destination of the faithful. Paul’s theological vision consistently focuses on the arrival of the age to come, a transformed world ...pecifically to partnership in the very suffering of Messiah (3:10). Paul’s vision of partnership is posed as a direct challenge to the prevailing sociocultur
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• A Christian Declaration on the Authority of the Scriptures (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1962)
  ...higher truth and a correction of the distortions of the perverted natural vision. ...erpretation and other interpretations only as they are called forth by the text and context.
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• Galatians
  ...nd the Spirit. Moreover, a careful reading of Galatians discloses a strong vision of the community of faith, the church. To be incorporated into Christ is to {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"
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• Joshua
  ...ations even of those areas where the book fails to resonate with a hopeful vision of peace with justice for all. ...memory of Israel’s relationship to God, and for articulating a theological vision that transcends the conquest narrative of the past. The “living God,” w
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• Mennonitische Weltkonferenz
  ...en Haushalterschaft. Das Buch ist in drei Teile geteilt: Der erste ist ein Text von Bedru Hussein ursprünglich für die Meserete Kristos Kirche in Äthiop ...er Alan and Eleanor and Paulus Widjaja. ''Eine Kultur des Friedens: Gottes Vision für die Kirche''. Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
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• Jeremiah
  ...vers Church Bible Commentary series can be checked for explanations of the text. This section is devoted to a summary of the book. Rather than follow the c ...he evangelism of persons. Critics might rightly remark that the Anabaptist vision of the mission of God is not sufficiently inclusive in its scope..
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• Acts
  ...medical vocabulary, leading some to question whether a physician wrote the text. Nevertheless, some argue that the language would be ''consistent'' with th
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• The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
  =="The Anabaptist Vision" ¹== ...mes acquainted with this group the more one becomes conscious of the great vision that shaped their course in history and for which they gladly gave their li
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• The Pre-eminence of the Bible in Mennonite History
  ...scattered over the earth from the beginning of the sixteenth century. This vision is becoming more and more predominant among the Mennonites of all parts of ...At least even in our century and in the foreseeable future the Anabaptist vision of the church is and will be unacceptable to the great majority of Catholic
  60 KB (9,998 words) - 02:48, 31 August 2022
• Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1981)
  ...ed Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana was the writer of the text.] ...also become challenges to greater faithfulness. They can lead to a clearer vision of the way to which God calls the church.
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• Concept of Cologne (Anabaptists, 1591)
  ...Christ, attempting to live out his gospel of peace (see Concept of Cologne text, points 5, 6, 7, and 14 above). The Low-Country Mennonites, on the one hand
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• Hosea
  ...the political and social arena be shaped not by self-interest but by God's vision of the good life for the broader community. By undermining all other source ...ece of God. Even when the "I" of a particular speech is clearly Hosea, the text assumes that Hosea speaks for God.
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• Joel
  ...ul appropriation of Scripture requires us to push back against the limited vision of specific biblical texts (see Conclusion below; also the essay, “Strate ...r. However, when Joel’s vision of salvation clashes with the New Testament vision and with Jesus’ call to love enemies and to seek their welfare (Matt 5:43
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• Anabaptist Hermeneutics: The Letter and the Spirit
  ...annot be defended upon the grounds of sober study and understanding of the text, if they were either too busy or too uneducated to give the Bible the kind ...r, “The Biblicism of the Anabaptists,” in ''The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision'', ed. by Guy F. Hershberger (Scottdale, 1957) 167-79.</ref> If this is all
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• Obadiah
  ...rritory of their neighbors. Many European colonizers were shaped by such a vision inspired by biblical texts similar to Obadiah, believing that as God’s pe {| border="1" style="text-align: right; color: green; background-color:#ffffcc; float: right"
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• Exodus
  ...on and transmission will also be kept in mind and will clarify some of the text's features. (1) One longer poetic text (the Song of the Sea, 15:1-18).
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• Justice and the Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1983)
  Shalom is the biblical vision which combines justice and peace. Nonviolent love was the method of Jesus, <hr/> <h3>Justice and the Christian Witness</h3> Text
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• Romans
  ...importance (“welcome one another”; [https://press.palni.org/ojs/index.php/vision/article/view/146/105 Zerbe 2016]). ...supersessionism (Toews 2004: 288-289), Romans can also be considered a key text for Jewish-Christian dialogue. Romans is most certainly not a general “tr
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