https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Renaissance,_Mennonite&feed=atom&action=historyRenaissance, Mennonite - Revision history2024-03-19T03:49:45ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Renaissance,_Mennonite&diff=143713&oldid=prevRichardThiessen: Text replace - "<em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em>" to "''Mennonite Quarterly Review''"2017-01-15T23:09:29Z<p>Text replace - "<em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em>" to "''Mennonite Quarterly Review''"</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third stage has as its center a conscious effort on the part of Harold S. Bender and many others to recover "the Anabaptist vision." This quest began ca. 1924, took on a formal dimension with the establishment of the [[Mennonite Quarterly Review|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><em></del>Mennonite Quarterly Review<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></em></del>]] in 1927, and found its synthesis with Bender's "[[The Anabaptist Vision|Anabaptist vision]]," first published in 1944 (<em>MQR</em>, April 1944).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third stage has as its center a conscious effort on the part of Harold S. Bender and many others to recover "the Anabaptist vision." This quest began ca. 1924, took on a formal dimension with the establishment of the [[Mennonite Quarterly Review|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Mennonite Quarterly Review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>]] in 1927, and found its synthesis with Bender's "[[The Anabaptist Vision|Anabaptist vision]]," first published in 1944 (<em>MQR</em>, April 1944).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td></tr>
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</table>RichardThiessenhttps://gameo.org/index.php?title=Renaissance,_Mennonite&diff=128668&oldid=prevRichardThiessen: Text replace - "<em> Martyrs Mir</em><em>ror</em>" to "<em>Martyrs' Mirror</em>"2014-12-19T03:17:28Z<p>Text replace - "<em><a href="/index.php?title=Martyrs%27_Mirror" title="Martyrs' Mirror"> Martyrs Mir</a></em><a href="/index.php?title=Martyrs%27_Mirror" title="Martyrs' Mirror"><em>ror</em></a>" to "<em><a href="/index.php?title=Martyrs%27_Mirror" title="Martyrs' Mirror">Martyrs' Mirror</a></em>"</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| Martyrs Mir</del>]]</em><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Martyrs' Mirror|<em>ror</em>]] </del>tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror]]</em> tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<em>Gospel Herald</em>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<em>Gospel Herald</em>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>= Bibliography =</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>= Bibliography =</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Burkholder, J. R. and Calvin W. Redekop, eds. <em>Kingdom Cross and Community.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1976.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gross, Leonard. "The Doctrinal Era of the Mennonite Church." <em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em> (1986): 83-103.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gross, Leonard. "The Doctrinal Era of the Mennonite Church." <em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em> (1986): 83-103.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Schlabach</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Theron </del>F. <em><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gospel Versus Gospel</del>.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1980</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hershberger</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Guy </ins>F. <em><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Way of the Cross in Human Relations</ins>. </em>Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1958</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hershberger, Guy F., ed. <em>The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1957.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hershberger, Guy F., ed. <em>The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1957.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through these efforts a new generation of English-speaking young Mennonites developed, many of whom were eager to serve the church as Christian workers in mission and relief work, and who also felt the need for further [[Education, Mennonite|education]] in way of preparation for service. Partly as cause, partly as effect, not only publishing (1860s onward) but also home and foreign missions (1880s and 1890s onward), education (1894ff), mutual aid (1860s onward), and relief efforts (1890s onward), took on a formal and institutional character within the church at this time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through these efforts a new generation of English-speaking young Mennonites developed, many of whom were eager to serve the church as Christian workers in mission and relief work, and who also felt the need for further [[Education, Mennonite|education]] in way of preparation for service. Partly as cause, partly as effect, not only publishing (1860s onward) but also home and foreign missions (1880s and 1890s onward), education (1894ff), mutual aid (1860s onward), and relief efforts (1890s onward), took on a formal and institutional character within the church at this time.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror| Martyrs Mir]]</em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|<em>ror</em>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><em> </em></del>tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror| Martyrs Mir]]</em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|<em>ror</em>]] tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<em>Gospel Herald</em>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<em>Gospel Herald</em>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mennonite Renaissance, a period of awakening, or quickening, within the Mennonite Church (MC), that had its beginnings during the American Civil War (1861-65), came into its own by the 1890s, with definite second and third stages extending from the 1890s to the present time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mennonite Renaissance, a period of awakening, or quickening, within the Mennonite Church (MC), that had its beginnings during the American Civil War (1861-65), came into its own by the 1890s, with definite second and third stages extending from the 1890s to the present time.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Funk, John Fretz (1835-1930)|John F. Funk]], and later, [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]], were at the center of the beginning stage (1860-1908), commencing formally in 1863 with publications on the Mennonite position on war, and in 1864 with the founding of Funk's [[Herald of Truth (Periodical)|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>Herald of Truth<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>/em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>]] and [[Herold der Wahrheit (1864-1901) (Periodical)|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>Herold der Wahrheit<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>/em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>]], and ending in 1908 when the <em>Herald of Truth</em> ceased publication. During this period, renewal efforts for the church centered in the innovation of the Sunday school (ca. 1863ff), and later, revival meetings. This latter development is where John S. Coffman made his significant contribution as the first churchwide evangelist (ca. 1881-99).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Funk, John Fretz (1835-1930)|John F. Funk]], and later, [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]], were at the center of the beginning stage (1860-1908), commencing formally in 1863 with publications on the Mennonite position on war, and in 1864 with the founding of Funk's [[Herald of Truth (Periodical)|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>Herald of Truth<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>/em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>]] and [[Herold der Wahrheit (1864-1901) (Periodical)|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>Herold der Wahrheit<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>/em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>]], and ending in 1908 when the <em>Herald of Truth</em> ceased publication. During this period, renewal efforts for the church centered in the innovation of the Sunday school (ca. 1863ff), and later, revival meetings. This latter development is where John S. Coffman made his significant contribution as the first churchwide evangelist (ca. 1881-99).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through these efforts a new generation of English-speaking young Mennonites developed, many of whom were eager to serve the church as Christian workers in mission and relief work, and who also felt the need for further [[Education, Mennonite|education]] in way of preparation for service. Partly as cause, partly as effect, not only publishing (1860s onward) but also home and foreign missions (1880s and 1890s onward), education (1894ff), mutual aid (1860s onward), and relief efforts (1890s onward), took on a formal and institutional character within the church at this time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Through these efforts a new generation of English-speaking young Mennonites developed, many of whom were eager to serve the church as Christian workers in mission and relief work, and who also felt the need for further [[Education, Mennonite|education]] in way of preparation for service. Partly as cause, partly as effect, not only publishing (1860s onward) but also home and foreign missions (1880s and 1890s onward), education (1894ff), mutual aid (1860s onward), and relief efforts (1890s onward), took on a formal and institutional character within the church at this time.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|Martyrs Mir]]</em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>ror<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>/em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>]]<em> </em>tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror| Martyrs Mir]]</em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>ror<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>/em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>]]<em> </em>tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>Gospel Herald<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>/em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>Gospel Herald<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>/em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third stage has as its center a conscious effort on the part of Harold S. Bender and many others to recover "the Anabaptist vision." This quest began ca. 1924, took on a formal dimension with the establishment of the [[Mennonite Quarterly Review|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>Mennonite Quarterly Review<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>/em<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&gt;</del>]] in 1927, and found its synthesis with Bender's "[[The Anabaptist Vision|Anabaptist vision]]," first published in 1944 (<em>MQR</em>, April 1944).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third stage has as its center a conscious effort on the part of Harold S. Bender and many others to recover "the Anabaptist vision." This quest began ca. 1924, took on a formal dimension with the establishment of the [[Mennonite Quarterly Review|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>Mennonite Quarterly Review<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>/em<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">></ins>]] in 1927, and found its synthesis with Bender's "[[The Anabaptist Vision|Anabaptist vision]]," first published in 1944 (<em>MQR</em>, April 1944).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Mennonite Renaissance, a period of awakening, or quickening, within the Mennonite Church (MC), that had its beginnings during the American Civil War (1861-65), came into its own by the 1890s, with definite second and third stages extending from the 1890s to the present time.<br />
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[[Funk, John Fretz (1835-1930)|John F. Funk]], and later, [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]], were at the center of the beginning stage (1860-1908), commencing formally in 1863 with publications on the Mennonite position on war, and in 1864 with the founding of Funk's [[Herald of Truth (Periodical)|&lt;em&gt;Herald of Truth&lt;/em&gt;]] and [[Herold der Wahrheit (1864-1901) (Periodical)|&lt;em&gt;Herold der Wahrheit&lt;/em&gt;]], and ending in 1908 when the <em>Herald of Truth</em> ceased publication. During this period, renewal efforts for the church centered in the innovation of the Sunday school (ca. 1863ff), and later, revival meetings. This latter development is where John S. Coffman made his significant contribution as the first churchwide evangelist (ca. 1881-99).<br />
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Through these efforts a new generation of English-speaking young Mennonites developed, many of whom were eager to serve the church as Christian workers in mission and relief work, and who also felt the need for further [[Education, Mennonite|education]] in way of preparation for service. Partly as cause, partly as effect, not only publishing (1860s onward) but also home and foreign missions (1880s and 1890s onward), education (1894ff), mutual aid (1860s onward), and relief efforts (1890s onward), took on a formal and institutional character within the church at this time.<br />
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Important for an understanding of this first stage is the language transformation: after the [[American Civil War (1861-1865)|Civil War]], English slowly evolved as the mother tongue displacing German for many in the Mennonite church, so that by 1901 the <em>Herold der Wahrheit</em> ceased publication for lack of readership. Up to 1908, however, John Funk attempted consciously to maintain the Mennonite tradition which combined faith and history -- the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|Martyrs Mir]]</em>[[Martyrs' Mirror|&lt;em&gt;ror&lt;/em&gt;]]<em> </em>tradition, where the church looked to its own roots, and to its own historic ways of interpreting the [[Bible |Bible]].<br />
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With the publication of [[Kauffman, Daniel (1865-1944)|Daniel Kauffman's]] <em>Manual of Bible Doctrines</em>, and the creation of Mennonite [Church] General Conference (MC), both in 1898, a second stage came into being, strengthened in 1908 by the new church organ, the [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|&lt;em&gt;Gospel Herald&lt;/em&gt;]]. From 1898 to 1944, a new doctrinal approach which tended to minimize the historical dimension of the Mennonite faith took many of its cues for definitions of truth from sources outside Mennonite circles. By now, the German-language tradition with its whole corpus of literature had all but disappeared in the Mennonite approach to defining faith and life. Formal rules and discipline in matters of uniform [[Dress|dress]] and deportment also came into being. This era has at times been called the Daniel Kauffman era, due to the central role Kauffman played throughout these 40 and more years.<br />
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The third stage has as its center a conscious effort on the part of Harold S. Bender and many others to recover "the Anabaptist vision." This quest began ca. 1924, took on a formal dimension with the establishment of the [[Mennonite Quarterly Review|&lt;em&gt;Mennonite Quarterly Review&lt;/em&gt;]] in 1927, and found its synthesis with Bender's "[[The Anabaptist Vision|Anabaptist vision]]," first published in 1944 (<em>MQR</em>, April 1944).<br />
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The triad of ideas found in Bender's "Anabaptist Vision,' -- [[Discipleship|discipleship]], the gathered, disciplined church, and the spirit of peace and love -- found wide resonance among many Mennonite groups, in a manner that could still be felt into the last years of the 20th century. Continuing affirmation of the doctrinal approach could also be found among a few Mennonite groups during these same decades after 1944, even though the "Anabaptist Vision" was the prevailing center for articulating the Christian faith for most Mennonites at this time.<br />
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= Bibliography =<br />
Gross, Leonard. "The Doctrinal Era of the Mennonite Church." <em>Mennonite Quarterly Review</em> (1986): 83-103.<br />
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Schlabach, Theron F. <em>Gospel Versus Gospel.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1980.<br />
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Hershberger, Guy F., ed. <em>The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1957.<br />
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Hostetler, Beulah Stauffer. <em>American Mennonites and Protestant Movements. </em>Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987.<br />
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Hershberger, Guy F. <em>The Way of the Cross in Human Relations. </em>Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1958.<br />
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Burkholder, J. R. and Calvin W. Redekop, eds. <em>Kingdom Cross and Community.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1976.<br />
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Yoder, John H. "Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality," in <em>Consultation on Anabaptist-Mennonite theology</em>, ed. A. J. Klassen. N.p.: Council of Mennonite Seminaries, 1970: 146.<br />
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