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In the four decades covered, American Mennonites nearly doubled in membership. Their encounters with Protestant revivalism, organizational techniques, modernism, and World War I affected each group differently. Volume 3.

Paul Toews examines ways progressive Mennonites have slowed their absorption into American culture through creating institutional systems, refining and rearticulating ideologies, building ecumenical alliances, and developing a service and missional activism. Meanwhile, the Amish have formed a creative set of adaptive strategies that permit economic integration and social isolation.

An in-depth look at how Mennonites nad Amish were able to become a more visible and respected people than ever before during their more than 300 years in America. Volume 4.

This historical essay on the course of General Conference Mennonite missionary movement has been written to celebrate ad to reevaluate the achievements of that movement. This boo, while not directly addressing issues of missions theology or strategy, is written from a background of growing conviction that missions based on Anabaptist-Mennonite beliefs are, or ought to be, in some measure distinct from conventional Protestant models. This story represents a small fragment of Mennonite experience and a tinier fragment of the larger church in the world. It represents a North American point of view.

Copyright 1979

Corneilius H Wedel was the first president of Bethel (KS) College from the beginning of classes in 1893 until his death in 1910. He was also an early scholar of Anabaptist-Mennonite history. Chapter titles include: The Ethnic Dialogue; The Spirituality Dialogue; The History Dialogue; The Community Dialogue; and The Culture Dialogue.

Copyright 1987.

Revised edition