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• Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1981)
  '''Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1981) ...rd began working on the topic "Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church" by appointing a task force and preparing for the presentation of the topic
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• Anabaptism Sunday School Curriculum for Youth
  This curriculum was designed to be used with high school youth in a local church setting. It was created by Jo-Ann Brant (United States and Canada) and orig *I belong to a tradition, that of the Mennonites, a historic peace church.
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• Ephesians
  ...80836191677/ephesians/''Ephesians'', by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] *Ecclesiocentric—the church or “assembly” (to translate literally) is the “new human” created b
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• Olive Branch Confession (1627)
  ...marks by which the children of God and members of Jesus Christ (being the church of God) can and must be known, according to the testimony of the word of th ...are, by which men become children of God, members of Jesus Christ, and the church of God. For although the blessed Lord Jesus Christ is the only meritorious
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• Criticism and Analogy in Historical-Critical Interpretation
  ...mmary, Brunk at least assumes such an analogy between the situation of the church in Luke’s time and the dynamic of the Emmaus event. Such an analogy would ...referents in time and space cannot do justice to the witness of the early church. But a view of the resurrection which limits our knowledge of it to what is
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• A Short Confession of Faith by Hans de Ries (1618)
  ...fidei, or that they might displace the Scriptures as authority within the church. In his introduction to the confession which follows, E. A. van Dooregeest ...round with non-Mennonites. It is also unique in being the first Anabaptist-Mennonite confession which systematically treats all of the major doctrines of the fa
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• The Pre-eminence of the Bible in Mennonite History
  ==The Pre-Eminence of the Bible in Mennonite History== ...atin America). See C. J. Dyck’s article in this issue of the ''MQR'', “The Mennonite World Conference: A Brief Introduction.”</ref>
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• The Hermeneutics of Obedience
  ===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
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• Mennonite Brethren Church Confession of Faith (1902)
  ...r 1536, when the founder of the denomination, Menno Simons, left the Roman Church and began the establishment of independent churches soon grouped together w ...the doctrinal view of this denomination agrees with the doctrines of other Mennonite bodies and upon what points it differs from them.
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• American Mennonites and the Bible, by C. Norman Kraus
  ...rightened by the specter of Modernism and by “liberalism” in the Mennonite Church and they readily accepted the Fundamentalists’ definition of the issues a ...d directly applied to the life of the church today. Thus, for example, the church is not to “spiritualize” such practices as the veiling of women for wor
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• American Mennonites and the Bible
  ...rightened by the specter of Modernism and by “liberalism” in the Mennonite Church and they readily accepted the Fundamentalists’ definition of the issues a ...d directly applied to the life of the church today. Thus, for example, the church is not to “spiritualize” such practices as the veiling of women for wor
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• Andreas Wurtz
  ...as born in 1739, they baptised her with the name Magdalena, in the village church. Andreas knew that leaving the Roman Catholic Church in Austria meant nothing less than the loss of all his possessions, and pos
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• Powers (in Ephesians)
  ...80836191677/ephesians/''Ephesians'', by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...rative justice. But a significant segment also believes the mission of the church includes vigorous spiritual warfare against Satan and his demonic hordes. T
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• Isaiah
  ...nomedia.org/9780836194401/isaiah/''Isaiah'', by Ivan D. Friesen (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...history. The book of Isaiah has certainly played an important role for the church in holding onto the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as part of the Christian S
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• Schleitheim Confession (source)
  ...se brothers" referred to by the cover letter were therefore not only state-church Reformers but at least some of them were within Anabaptism; ...ill another; to the work of God in constituting the unity of the Christian church.</ref> in the one body of Christ, that is the congregation of God, whose he
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• Reflections on Biblical Hermeneutics
  ...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.
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• Justice and the Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1983)
  ...and the Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1983) ...adopted by General Conference Mennonite Church Triennial Session Mennonite Church General Assembly Bethlehem, [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] August 1-7,
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• Hermeneutics and Discipleship
  ...style="color: red">&rarr;29^#</span>''' While the history of the church since the Reformation has been, in some sense, a history of differences in ...inary, 1960.</ref> the monograph, Principles of Biblical Interpretation in Mennonite Theology (1967) by Myron S. Augsburger, and the 1967 article on ‘The Herm
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• The Hermeneutics of the Anabaptists
  ...ains a fundamental warp in most current thinking about church identity and church unity. Further reason for doubt about the exemplary value of historical ori ...nditioned by the fact that the Lutherans had a chance to tell the existing church what to do and this chance was not given the radical disciples of Huldrych
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• Anabaptist Hermeneutics: The Letter and the Spirit
  ...ough the man reading the Word and through the man speaking the word in the church, not only through the written word known as the Bible. We obviously do thes ...tle mind make him hard to place in a theological straightjacket. Too often Mennonite scholars have hoped to find in him the exactness of theological expression
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• The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
  ...tate in which every man counts as a man, and has his share in shaping both Church and State." ...tion but that the great principles of freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, and voluntarism in religion, so basic in American Protestantism
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• Menno Simons' Encounter with the Bible
  ...ad met the living Word of God, Jesus Christ. No longer did he ask what the Church Fathers had said on an issue; now it was a question of what the Scriptures ...in that he was able to preach boldly against the evil both of the Catholic Church and the perverted Münsterites, and secondly in that some months thereafter
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• Mark
  ...nnomedia.org/9780836191400/mark/''Mark'', by Timothy J. Geddert (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...and themes of special interest to Anabaptists, and it is important for the church as a whole. Among them are care for the poor, discipleship, sacrifice, humi
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• Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995)
  ...eeds of the early Christian church, which were assumed as foundational for Mennonite confessions from the beginning, are basic to this confession as well. ...nites in Canada, have realigned to form Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. ]
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• Eberhard Arnold
  ...submitted his dissertation. Undeterred, both left the established Lutheran church and received believer’s baptism the following year, though without joinin ...eady by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was dissatisfied with free-church Christianity, which seemed to him to focus unhealthily on personal salvatio
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• Yahweh War (in Exodus)
  ...nomedia.org/9780836191349/exodus/''Exodus'', by Waldemar Janzen (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...eh Is a Warrior: The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel''. ''Journal of Mennonite Studies'' 2 (1984):177–81.
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• The Authority of the Canon
  ...ntested search, with different geographic regions and different periods of church history coming to different conclusions. Differences continue today as to t ...ns: what does it mean for the functioning of Scripture as authority in the church (canon in the first sense) that the kind of sacred Scripture around which C
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• 1 Peter
  ...e/''1 & 2 Peter, Jude'', by Erland Waltner and J. Daryl Charles (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...was also born in suffering and hope. For decades and centuries, Believers Church Anabaptists challenged the political and religious status quo and were pers
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• Journey to Emmaus: A Study in Critical Methodology
  ...storical criticism, while it has the reputation of destructiveness for the church, is “a most conservative process, since historical research conserves the ...rrative to the general reader and student, and narrows the gap between the church’s view of Scripture as authoritative revelation and the scientific forms
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• Canon: Creative Biblicism as a Hermeneutical Principle
  ...t is in this terminal point of the generations that the whole story of the church since Jesus is to be seen. ...ll things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church.</blockquote>
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• The Relation of the Old and New Covenants in Pilgram Marpeck’s Theology
  ...y mistaken when he asserted that the retention of the Old Testament in the church’s canon at the time of the Reformation was due to an unavoidable accident ...l are both altogether lacking in Marpeck.<ref>''The Anabaptist View of the Church''.</ref>
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• Matthew
  ...ia.org/9780836135558/matthew/''Matthew'', by Richard B. Gardner (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] Early church tradition dating from the second century claims that Matthew was written by
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• Martyrs Mirror
  ...yrs Mirror.'' Moundridge, Kan: Gospel Publishers, Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 1988. || ...atory materials taken largely from A description of the true and the false church, compiled and published by Sauder in 1944.
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• Modes of Appropriating the Bible
  In the history of the church this approach has appeared again and again, often at those points where gre ...ance had its origin in Judaism also, but became prominent in the Christian Church during its first several centuries and dominated Bible interpretation durin
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• Deuteronomy
  .../9780836199703/deuteronomy/''Deuteronomy'', by Gerald Gerbrandt (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...omes to us today as part of the canon, a volume of books through which the church hears and experiences God. As such, the canon becomes the crucial context w
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• Beyond the Historical-Critical Method
  ...any directions.”<ref>Bernhard W. Anderson, “Tradition and Scripture in the Church,” ''JBL'' 100 (Jan 1981), 5-21. Quotation on p. 5.</ref></blockquote> ...ethod in which the authority of Scripture, the sovereignty of God, and the church’s spiritual experience function as the major determinants in interpretati
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• Theology of Warfare (in Joshua)
  ...media.org/9780836195675/joshua/''Joshua'', by Gordon H. Matties (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...y Willard M. Swartley, 112-34. Occasional Papers 12. Elkhart: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1988.
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• Mennonite Articles of Faith by Cornelis Ris (1766)
  ...n Frisian congregation. In the 17th century Hoorn had an unusual number of Mennonite branches; in 1747 the Frisians and the Waterlanders, then the only remaini ...were declining even more rapidly than the more liberal ones). In 1759 the church council of the Hoorn congregation decided to present Ris' proposal to the Z
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• Psalms
  ...omedia.org/9780836193374/psalms/''Psalms'', by James H. Waltner (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...in corporate worship from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Swiss Mennonite immigrants took this worship guide to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in th
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• "Entrevista con Cesar Moya"
  Con la Evangelical Mennonite Church connected to the Rosedale Conference las relaciones son buenas, aunque la d
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• Kenneth Miller
  ...0 for a four-month stint as temporary replacement missionaries under Amish Mennonite Aid, the possibility of this sort of disaster did not enter our minds. We w ...al children and suck their blood.” “The missionaries get people to come to church by filling their shoes with money.” There were even death threats. But po
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• Amos
  .../9780836190724/hosea-amos/''Hosea, Amos'', by Allen R. Guenther (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] Throughout most of church history the book of Amos was largely ignored because it does not predict th
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• The Confession of Faith (P.J. Twisck, 1617)
  ...her Mennonite groups. Sijwaert Pietersz was a co-worker in the Old Frisian Church; Twisck credited him for the composition of the confession, though Twisck's ...been influential because of its inclusion in the ''Martyrs' Mirror''. The Church of God in Christ, Mennonites most often reprinted the English translation i
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• Julius Kubassek
  ...le was the father of them all he declared, “I do not believe in God or the church. I am an atheist!” ...kers” of widely varied backgrounds, and a good number joined from Canadian Mennonite and Hutterite congregations. On the Community Farm all came to look alike,
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• Leviticus
  ...ia.org/9781513801636/leviticus/''Leviticus'', by Perry B. Yoder (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...own practices. An example would be his requirements for leadership in the church: “Those who are comprised in the doctrine, ordinance, and life of our Lor
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• Exodus
  ...nomedia.org/9780836191349/exodus/''Exodus'', by Waldemar Janzen (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...has regularly belonged to the stock of Bible stories taught to Anabaptist-Mennonite children. To this stock belonged Israel’s oppression in Egypt, Moses’ p
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