A Pilgrimage of Faith: The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia and North America, 1860-1990Kindred Productions (c) 1993, 1993 - 376 páginas It is now [1990] one hundred and thirty years since the birth of the Mennonite Brethren Church and therefore time for someone in that church to take a backward glance to see how things have developed. Who better to do this John B. Toews. His life spans well over half of those years and he has experienced much of what he writes. "JB" as he is affectionately known by both students and colleagues is a patriarchal figure in the Mennonite Brethren Church. Born in Ukraine, the Russian Revolution and its aftermath were the crucible that shaped his youth and young adult years. After studying in Western Europe, Toews immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s. Much of his life has been in Mennonite Brethren educational institutions in Canada and the United States. During ten years as Executive Secretary of the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions he traveled widely and came to know Mennonite Brethren people around the world. In between educational and mission administrative responsibilities he pastored in Kansas and California. After retiring from the presidency of the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary he became the founding Director of the Historical Commission of the Mennonite Brethren Church.
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... Menno- nite Brethren Studies ( Fresno ) , and student assistants Rhonda ( Warkentin ) Langley and Joanne Klassen , worked to system- atize the documentation . The years of research and final publication of this vol- ume were made ...
... Menno and the New Testa- ment play the role they do in the birth of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia . By returning - or at least attempt- ing to do so to this dual beginning , renewal movements of necessity become critics of ...
... Menno had become practically desolate and empty and was about to collapse . " 18 A major factor in the spiritual decline of the church in Russia was lack of adequate leadership . For the most part , the educated leaders in the Prussian ...
... discontented with conditions in the larger church . Reimer was concerned to reform the Russian Mennonites in accord with the traditions of the six- teenth - century Anabaptist church and the writings of Menno 8 A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH.
... Menno Simons , Dirk Philips and Peter Peters.25 The formation of the Kleine Gemeinde did not calm the turbulence as clashes continued between the old guard and more progressive Mennonites who were open to deeper piety , education and ...