Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A Narrative Account of Life in the Oldest Mennonite Community in North America (STUDIES IN ANABAPTIST AND MENNONITE HISTORY)

Ruth, John L.

Religion & Spirituality

Herald Pr

This book brings to life an outstanding figure in the early Anabaptist movement. Although this biography is cast in the form of a story, the author has limited himself to facts documented. Conrad Grebel was born into a leading family of Zurich, Switzerland. He enjoyed reading Greek poetry in an elite circle which included Zwingli, and he later joined Zwingli's Bible discussion group. Conrad admired his break with centuries-long church traditions and his attempts to recapture the essence of Christianity. Conrad and those who shared his understanding of the Scriptures were ultimately forbidden to assemble. At this point the closely-knit group boldly established a believer's church, emphasizing a voluntary adult commitment to Christ. They risked persecution and violent death for a principle now generally accepted by most Christian groups - the separation of church and state.

Conrad Grebel, Son of Zurich

'Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution First Edition

'Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution

The Earth Is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference

History

Americas

Herald Press

This book has been revised and this version is Out of Print. Please reference 978-0-8361-9573-6 Forgiveness: Revised Edition. This sensitive and thoughtful meditation on the horrific events of October 2, 2006, reflects on the response of the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a gunman killed himself, five school children, and wounded five others. The tragic crime evoked expressions of shock and sympathy worldwide. But even many Christians were stunned when the Amish community, in the midst of its grieving, offered words of forgiveness toward the dead killer and his family. John L. Ruth considers that extraordinary forgiveness as the legacy of that heartbreaking day.

Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish School

Christian Books & Bibles

A quiet and peaceable life (A People's place booklet ; no. 2)

Good Books

If the plain people of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their own expressions and the biblical cadences they echo. Having maintained, with the tolerance of their society, a simple life as the quiet in the land, these folk still prize such passe virtues as modesty, humility, and obedience to God's will, as interpreted by a disciplined community of faith. Their values, difficult to appreciate in a world bemused by progress, are seldom if ever articulated, except as curiosities, in our mass media.

Quiet and Peaceable Life

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

John Ruth provides a lively account and some little known insights concerning Mennonite community life in America 200 years ago.

Twas Seeding Time

Herald Press (VA)

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Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A Narrative Account of Life in the Oldest Mennonite Community in North America (STUDIES IN ANABAPTIST AND MENNONITE HISTORY)

Conrad Grebel, Son of Zurich

'Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution

The Earth Is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference

Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish School

A quiet and peaceable life (A People's place booklet ; no. 2)

Quiet and Peaceable Life

Twas Seeding Time

Conrad Grebel, Son of Zurich

Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A narrative account of life in the oldest Mennonite community in North America