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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... that spiritual life had sunk to a low ebb and ethical practices had seriously de- clined . The Mennonite community of that era , according to historian Robert Kreider , exhibited many of the characteristics of 4 A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH.
... According to P.M. Friesen , " Gnadenfeld became the center for a religious move- ment of greater warmth , the magnetic center for those who called themselves ' brethren ' long before the Mennonite Brethren Church was organized . Many ...
... According to John A. Toews , Wüst was a " Moses ' who led many people out of the bondage of a life- less tradition and dead orthodoxy to a joyous assurance of a personal faith . But by training and experience he was not equipped to be ...
... according to our conviction from the Holy Spirit . " 46 The long - range concerns were for a restoration of a bibli- cal and Anabaptist church . The founders of the new move- ment felt intimately related to the sixteenth century ...
... according to Scripture.52 It is here where we recognize the historic beginning of the Mennonite Brethren Church . Abraham H. Unruh summa- rized the lessons that the Mennonite Brethren movement learned from these early troubled years ...