A Pilgrimage of Faith: The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990It is now [1990] one hundred and thirty years since the birth of the Mennonite Brethren Church and therefore time for someone in that church to take a backward glance to see how things have developed. Who better to do this John B. Toews. His life spans well over half of those years and he has experienced much of what he writes. "JB" as he is affectionately known by both students and colleagues is a patriarchal figure in the Mennonite Brethren Church. Born in Ukraine, the Russian Revolution and its aftermath were the crucible that shaped his youth and young adult years. After studying in Western Europe, Toews immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s. Much of his life has been in Mennonite Brethren educational institutions in Canada and the United States. During ten years as Executive Secretary of the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions he traveled widely and came to know Mennonite Brethren people around the world. In between educational and mission administrative responsibilities he pastored in Kansas and California. After retiring from the presidency of the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary he became the founding Director of the Historical Commission of the Mennonite Brethren Church.
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The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990 John B. Toews. W hen Eusebius , bishop of Cesarea and apologist for Emperor Constantine , wrote his Ecclesiastical History in the fourth century , he launched a new ...
... Russia was lack of adequate leadership . For the most part , the educated leaders in the Prussian Mennonite community did not migrate to Russia . Of their unwillingness to move with the pioneer settlements John B. Toews , historian of ...
... Russia - geographically isolated , intellectual- ly anemic and spiritually impoverished- " had become a society to themselves . Religion and politics had intermingled , church and state had become one . " " The church had become spiri ...
The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990 John B. Toews. Brethren as a renewal movement . It expressed deep repen- tance and shame over the failures of those early years ; it listed failures in reaction to ...