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Only the Sword of the Spirit
1997, Kindred Productions
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0921788444 9780921788447
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Table of Contents
Preface.
i
Introduction.
vii
Part One: Menno's Vision.
1. "Only the Sword of the Spirit!".
3
2. The Significance of Menno Simons's Only-the-Sword-of-the-Spirit Stance in World History and in Scripture.
19
i. In World History.
19
ii. In Scripture.
22
iii. In Mennonite Experience.
26
3. Menno's Feet of Clay.
29
Part Two: The Story of the Northern Stream of Mennonites: In Northern Europe, Southern Russia, and America.
4. The Doopsgezinde of the Netherlands.
37
5. Mennonites in Northwest Germany.
53
6. Mennonites in the Prussias.
67
7. The Mennonite Commonwealth in South Russia 1789–1860.
85
8. Awakening in Russia.
99
9. Johann Cornies and his Vision.
105
10. Pietist and Baptist Influences.
113
11. The Outworking of Borrowed Pietist Values in the Mennonite Brethren Context.
123
12. The Emergence of the Selbstschutz and the Mennonite Brethren Contribution to it.
135
Situating the Mennonites in North America.
142
13. American Mennonites: Citizenship and Property.
145
14. Social Class and Wealth.
155
15. The Canon and the Congregation.
163
16. Vulnerability to Outside Influences.
179
Part Three: The Twelve Anabaptist Values and Readers's Responses.
17. When Mennonites Adjusted Their Worldview to become Two-Kingdom Citizens.
189
18. From Stewardship to Ownership and a Social-class-based Society.
195
19. When Mennonites Developed a Church State and Decided to Defend it with the Sword.
201
20. When Mennonites Shifted Their View of the Canon.
207
21. When the Function of the Mennonite Congregation Changed.
213
22. When Mennonites Achieved Physical Isolation as "God's Chosen People" in Their Own "Promised Land" and Then Lost Their Reason to be.
223
Part Four: The Hope.
23. Stories of Fidelity.
231
24. The Hope for Ongoing Renewal.
243
Postscript.
Personal Reflections on the Only-the-Sword-of-the-Spirit Ideal, by Jacob A. Loewen.
253
How I Found my Roots in Gewaltverzicht.
253
How I Became Proud to be a Mennonite.
261
Bibliography.
265
Index.
329
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