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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... civil and religious leader- ship of the Mennonite community . It recognized the provi- dence of God who had assigned a place for the Mennonite Brethren as a renewal movement . It expressed deep repen- 14 A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH.
... 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 : ( 1 ) The need for sys- tematic Bible teaching ...
... recognized as a Mennonite Brethren statement . The 1902 confession , to which Mennonite Brethren have since subscribed in principle , was more a descriptive statement of scriptural understanding than a definitive theological statement ...
... recognized its great variety , the content of the whole was an account of the acts of God leading to culmination in the New Testament - God manifested in the flesh , the sacrifice for the sins of the world , the resurrection from the ...
... means . In retrospect one recognizes elements of legalism , a possible reaction to the old church where such evidences were not a condition for church membership . The dogmatic emphasis of the 36 A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH.