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  • of some families who arrived from the United States, along with many more recent immigrants from the Soviet Union. The latter first came to Canada in the
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  • Conference article. Other changes that indicate the new interpretation of nonconformity among the major Mennonite bodies in recent decades include the use
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  • assimilation have subtly gone on and gradual changes took place even though the significance of these changes has often not been recognized until long after
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  • Beachy Amish, about 83 percent were Old Order Amish. "New Order Amish," a recent development, and Beachy Amish make up the other congregations. Amish baptized
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  • At the same time a portion of the Berne group which had opposed various changes in the life of the church, and who had been having separate services for
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  • was an apostate form of Christianity. This has changed slightly in the later 20th century. Internal changes in Catholicism are responsible in part; the Mennonite
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  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by about 90% of the population. Recent figures show that 55% are Roman Catholic and 35% are Protestant, with Animism
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  • strict manner of life. The group was very conservative and very slow to make changes in outward forms in dress and in general habits and customs, insisting upon
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  • 28:19-20). Doctrinally there have been no major debates or changes at the denominational level in recent years. Local and personal variations in theology are
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  • for the suburbs, the membership has declined in recent years. The makeup of the church has also changed. There is still a core group that has been at the
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  • and cultural changes sustaining this new scientism. Fundamentalism was the militant opposition to modernism in both forms. These changes threatened the
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  • years, and refusing to keep up with the ever-changing styles which T. J. van Braght likened to the changes of the phases of the moon (Martyrs Mirror E 10)
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  • persecution in the 1950s, but has continued. The year 1958 brought political changes to Colombia which resulted in an open door for evangelism and church planting
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  • P. Loomis, John Gillin, Meyer F. Nimkoff, and Earnest W. Burgess. Mores recent scholars have included John A. Hostetler and Donald B. Kraybill. The general
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  • all settlements, although the conditions were not always so generous. In recent times, particularly in America, the charge has been made that the Mennonites
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  • the congregation. That changed in the mid-1970s when the congregation elected a separate chairman. Other organizational changes followed as needed. As
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  • food, dress, music, sports and entertainment. The school reflects these changes as do the churches in the area. Strong emphasis has been placed on the importance
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  • Mennonite community was not insulated from the huge cultural and social changes of the post-World War II era. Many challenged the traditional attitudes
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  • Testamentserläuterung of much the same time). He was the leader of a strong group, as the recent discovery of some 42 letters by him (found in a Bern library) attests. As
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  • Kleine Gemeinde changed its name to Evangelical Mennonite Church in 1952 and to Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC) in 1960. Recent research in Kleine
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  • kneeling posture as did their descendants in Canada and the United States until recent times. Kneeling is still practiced by such groups as the Amish and the Old
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  • Supper. Basically they remained the same throughout the centuries. The changes which took place pertained to the form and circumstances of observing the
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  • more recent Mennonite immigrants from Russia are predominant, the old system still prevailed into the 1950s, although it was apparent that a change was
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  • Mennonite settlements established voluntarily has been related. The most recent chapter deals with the information pertaining to Mennonite movements to
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  • He spent considerable time in visiting local families, many of whom were recent immigrants from Europe. The earliest outreach efforts focused on providing
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  • cases, because of local pressure, the meetings have been discontinued. A recent letter reports that a Mennonite baptismal service was stopped when the police
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  • make the cemetery more familiar, a cemetery walk booklet was produced. Changes to the building were made in 1950 and 1980 -- the latter included an enclosed
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  • significant side-effects and related changes. In the major groups, and some of the minor ones as well, these changes have produced a significantly different
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  • neighbouring regions were in a state of dynamic flux. The result of the changes was the ascendancy of High German and a separate literary Dutch language
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  • and mainland China, other south-east Asian countries, India, and in more recent years, from South America. Both provincial Mennonite conferences focused
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  • the first half of the 20th century the CGC faced a number of demanding changes: going through the transition from German to English; facing the compulsory
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  • after the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Settlement underwent the same changes as other communities. In the immediate vicinity of the settlement the Bashkir
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  • Since there has also been a shift in recent decades from conference to congregational control, the amount of change varied from congregation to congregation
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  • photocopying, laser printing, and other computer-generated technologies. These recent technologies have raised many questions even though they have been commonly
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  • and on Mennonites throughout the world, could have been reason enough. In recent research on the history of the Reformation, it has become quite typical
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  • and indeed all pre-baptismal instruction as dangerous formalism, but in recent decades has instituted regular instruction and probation. Those transferring
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  • and Dutch (3.3%). A major factor in the growth of Canada's population in recent years has been immigration, especially from Asia and the Middle East. In
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  • eventually becoming a Reformed minister. Ill and distraught over his wife’s recent death, Joris died on 25 August 1556. He was buried in St. Leonard’s Church
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  • Sunday school. The main sanctuary was decreased in size considerably. In more recent years the church has been revitalized, with an active outreach into the
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  • which represented respectively the Mennonites of the eastern United States, recent immigrants from Russia, and missionary interests. Thus the Bundesbote became
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  • effect requiring some form of alternative civilian or noncombatant service. A recent survey of American Mennonites found that only 69 percent would adopt a CO
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  • Rowland's World Dominion Press book, Church planting (n.d.). The term has in recent decades come back into common usage under the influence of the Church Growth
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  • but working with it in matters of mutual interest such as relief and the recent CPS program, were a number of congregations generally known as "Conservative
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  • in India, war in Europe, revolution in Russia -- that brought sweeping changes in the church's relation to society and state. Early in the 20th century
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  • most European Mennonites, including those who had immigrated from Europe in recent decades. The practice was found also among some conservative congregations
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  • double handful of water, then to pouring a single handful, and finally in recent times to having the minister moisten his fingers in the baptismal dish and
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  • which the gospel works to change other structures. Central to the convictions of this new order is the way of suffering love Recent biblical theology has also
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  • restless class of miners (Bergknappen), always eager to promote social changes. His sermons were attended allegedly by 2,000 hearers even though Allstedt
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  • 1767 or shortly after, Ouddorp earlier), but others sheltered orphans until recent times: Zaandam until about 1900, and De Rijp until 1912. The Amsterdam orphanage
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  • published in 1892-93 an almost exhaustive account of Anabaptism in Tyrol. Recent research by several Innsbruck historians (e.g., Widmoser, Kolb) has added
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  • missionary image. Other smaller Mennonite groups and numerous congregations in recent decades have similarly de-emphasized or even dropped the Mennonite label
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  • disappeared, to be replaced by professional pastors. Pastors, in this most recent model, are hired to serve as the leaders of those who have hired them. Their
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  • Mennonites (Church of God in Christ, Mennonite), changing courtship customs are evident. Until recent decades, courtship was restricted by limitations
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  • 1940s there were growing numbers within Fundamentalism who were calling for changes -- not so much in basic theology as in mood. Carl F. H. Henry (the first
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  • have been kept free of government money--and intervention. However, in more recent years all capital costs have become the responsibility of MBS, with government
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  • Jan. The Drama of the Martyrs: From the Death of Jesus Christ up to the Recent Times. Lancaster, Pa. : Mennonite Historical Associates, 1975. Luycken,
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  • been forced to wait several months in Buenos Aires or Asunción. The most recent Mennonite settlements in Paraguay were founded in 1948 by fellow believers
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  • Since then, several extensive renovations have been completed, the most recent in 2019. The new facility has served as the landlord for the Mennonite Education
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  • should they look to alternate means, such as increased home services? In recent years Mennonites have put little money into brick and mortar, and have instead
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  • Almost all congregations that have installed organs for the first time in recent decades have purchased electronic instruments, usually because of low cost
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  • histories of Lancaster Conference tell this story in some detail. The most recent and most detailed, The Earth Is the Lord's by John L. Ruth, appeared in
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  • Church was planted by the BC Conference of MB Churches in Sardis in 2000. Recent developments include the planting in 2008 of the Rosedale Mennonite Church
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  • original residents were interested in making a transition to English whereas recent post-World War II immigrants wanted to retain the German. Consequently First
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  • relief, and missions. The more radical aspects of love which deal with changes in the social and economic structures he largely rejected. At most such
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  • of ministry. During the course of the 20th century several significant changes occurred which brought crises to some who gave themselves to the service
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  • directly counter to the essential Anabaptist position. The difficulty some recent Mennonite theologians have had in reconciling the Old Testament ethic with
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  • basic contents of the Bible and the Christian truth is of comparatively recent origin. The Mennonites of the Dutch-Prussian-Russian tradition did this
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  • latter's grandson, another Conrad Grebel, became burgomaster in 1669. A recent member of the Supreme Court of the canton of Zürich was Dr. Hans von Grebel
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  • popularity of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The cost of discipleship. A number of recent books by Mennonite authors on the Sermon on the Mount have appeared, including
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  • roots of the modern worldview appear to lie in social and intellectual changes of the 12th and 13th centuries, as the rural-centered, feudal society gave
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  • had been unable to provide earlier. For a time in the 1950s, students or recent graduates of Mennonite Biblical Seminary, then located in Chicago, served
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  • comprised both of former refugees and new people brought to faith in Christ. In recent years they too have sought out fellow believers who have gone elsewhere
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  • Fr. Nove prispevky k dejinam Habanov na Slovensku. Bratislava, 1937. ("Recent Research about the Habaners in Slovakia"; this work reprints excerpts of
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  • circles reflecting the gradual adoption of common Protestant traditions. Changes such as the above occurred earlier in some General Conference Mennonite
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  • few months later the congregation received the greatest blow of its entire recent existence. Because of personal affairs of the pastor, who resigned from
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  • demographers who like to trace population trends, taking into account such changes as births, deaths, and migration (immigration and emigration). The Mennonite
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  • tying comforters, embroidering tea towels, and preparing school kits. In recent years Women’s Ministries has extended its services to women by offering
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  • million in the 1950s. In it lived approximately 5,500 Mennonites, many of them recent converts in the Mennonite Church (MC) or the United Missionary Church (UMC)
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  • began services in 1970, a year after a Sunday School had been organized for recent Mexican Mennonite immigrants of Dutch/North German cultural identity. The
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  • elective and non-elective political offices, something needed to be done. In recent decades the problem has become even more urgent as Mennonites in various
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  • and a strong peace and justice witness through the years, with the most recent effort to help plant a Hmong Mennonite Church in 1997. Arvada Mennonite
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  • Brethren (more in Switzerland), and the followers of Pilgram Marpeck. As the recent doctoral dissertation, Pilgram Marpeck, sein Kreis und seine Theologie (University
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  • was still common, as in the Niagara peninsula of Ontario, it was mostly recent immigrants from South America and Mexico who kept it alive. In North America
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  • Experience. Mennonites have seldom studied farming in the schools, except in recent decades and in small numbers. Nor was it unusual Mennonite wealth which
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  • disaffected Mennonites to Eighth Street, including those alienated by the recent closing and reorganization of the college. Membership grew to 251 by 1928
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  • family units as well as contract pickers, again mostly Indo-Canadians. In recent years Mexican farm workers have come as far north as the Fraser Valley and
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  • source of temptation which would lead to sin. In recent years, however, these attitudes are changing and the church is beginning to affirm the goodness
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  • doctors, and ministers have traditionally been considered professionals. In recent years, however, a multitude of other occupations have vied for professional
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  • provincial and national politics than Mennonites have ever been anywhere. In recent elections from 3-10 Mennonites have stood for provincial offices while 15
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  • is expressed in each individual national movement and how this doctrine changes in the course of time. In the past nationalism was often seen as a cultural
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  • evening services in German at Preston Mennonite Church (for the benefit of recent immigrants), he and Iva joined that congregation. When these services were
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  • Pietismus-forschung (Darmstadt, 1977). These are only select samples of many recent titles. The strong interest in Pietism in Germany began after World War
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  • understanding of the social problems created by their elimination. Only in recent years have non-Western Mennonite churches begun to reevaluate their rites
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  • membership as a result of recent actions within Mennonite Church USA regarding sexuality. Later in 2014 the congregation changed its name to Stuarts Draft
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  • rational scrutiny and considered of secondary significance. Thus the picture changes almost to the opposite of the earlier century. Rationalists and pietists
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  • classic of Christological formulas and his description of ecclesiological changes symbolized by Constantine. For example, where Yoder said only that the narrative
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  • investigated. Four-part singing in Mennonite congregations is also of a rather recent date. It started with the introduction of handcopied collections of songs
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  • Essays as well as in numerous autobiographical essays he published in later recent years. He wrote, "Mennonite convictions go to the deepest levels of my sense
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  • biographies appeared, written by C. Harder (1846) and B. C. Roosen (1848). A recent German biography, with a theological interpretation of the views of Menno
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  • cultures (German and French) ideally adapted it. -- Neff The results of recent research on 16th-century Anabaptism in the Basel area might be summarized
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