Only the Sword of the Spirit
By: by Jacob A. Loewen and Wesley J. Prieb
Contributors: Prieb, Wesley J.
Series: Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, No. 11
Publisher: Kindred Productions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Hillsboro, KS, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Mennonites -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: i; label: Introduction
title: vii; label: Part One: Menno's Vision; label: 1. "Only the Sword of the Spirit!"
title: 3; label: 2. The Significance of Menno Simons's Only-the-Sword-of-the-Spirit Stance in World History and in Scripture
title: 19; label: i. In World History
title: 19; label: ii. In Scripture
title: 22; label: iii. In Mennonite Experience
title: 26; label: 3. Menno's Feet of Clay
title: 29; label: Part Two: The Story of the Northern Stream of Mennonites: In Northern Europe, Southern Russia, and America; label: 4. The Doopsgezinde of the Netherlands
title: 37; label: 5. Mennonites in Northwest Germany
title: 53; label: 6. Mennonites in the Prussias
title: 67; label: 7. The Mennonite Commonwealth in South Russia 1789–1860
title: 85; label: 8. Awakening in Russia
title: 99; label: 9. Johann Cornies and his Vision
title: 105; label: 10. Pietist and Baptist Influences
title: 113; label: 11. The Outworking of Borrowed Pietist Values in the Mennonite Brethren Context
title: 123; label: 12. The Emergence of the Selbstschutz and the Mennonite Brethren Contribution to it
title: 135; label: Situating the Mennonites in North America
title: 142; label: 13. American Mennonites: Citizenship and Property
title: 145; label: 14. Social Class and Wealth
title: 155; label: 15. The Canon and the Congregation
title: 163; label: 16. Vulnerability to Outside Influences
title: 179; label: Part Three: The Twelve Anabaptist Values and Readers's Responses; label: 17. When Mennonites Adjusted Their Worldview to become Two-Kingdom Citizens
title: 189; label: 18. From Stewardship to Ownership and a Social-class-based Society
title: 195; label: 19. When Mennonites Developed a Church State and Decided to Defend it with the Sword
title: 201; label: 20. When Mennonites Shifted Their View of the Canon
title: 207; label: 21. When the Function of the Mennonite Congregation Changed
title: 213; label: 22. When Mennonites Achieved Physical Isolation as "God's Chosen People" in Their Own "Promised Land" and Then Lost Their Reason to be
title: 223; label: Part Four: The Hope; label: 23. Stories of Fidelity
title: 231; label: 24. The Hope for Ongoing Renewal
title: 243; label: Postscript; label: Personal Reflections on the Only-the-Sword-of-the-Spirit Ideal, by Jacob A. Loewen
title: 253; label: How I Found my Roots in Gewaltverzicht
title: 253; label: How I Became Proud to be a Mennonite
title: 261; label: Bibliography
title: 265; label: Index
title: 329