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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... Movement 81 8 Early Mennonite Brethren Missionaries 95 9 Eschatology : Not With One Voice 107 10 Mennonite Brethren at the Turn of the Century 115 11 Summary Observations of Parts One and Two 133 SECTION 3 A Time Of Transition 12 The ...
... movement - spiritually , geographically and cultur- ally . In periods of great social change there is energy and ex- hilaration , as well as anxiety and fear . There is a determina- tion to preserve the old ways , and an equal desire to ...
... movement from a rural , ethnically homogeneous peo- ple to a new environment of individualism and modernity produced sobering changes that raised many alarms . The committees of reference and counsel of the Canadi- an , U.S. and bi ...
... movement , Protestants could see the " development " of the church only in terms of decline and corruption . From that point onward , church history has , as often as not , been used to justify the historian's own branch of the ...
... movement . Subsequent renewal movements within the Mennonite Church have therefore struggled with the prob- lem of this dual origin : their own and that of the Apostolic Church . It is for this reason that Menno and the New Testa- ment ...