Author: Merle Good
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561482689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico the early morning stillness is broken by voices chanting praises to the Lord. And thus begins the daily cycle in the Godcentered life and search of the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.Seeking God is a monastic tapestry. The daily life of the monks is interwoven with the seasonal changes and celebrations and the candid words of the monks as they speak of their life their hopes and doubts their hardships fears and joys their prayer. Weaving this tapestry together are the hauntingly beautiful chants songs of praise and reverence that echo through the darkness before dawn throughout the day through the solemnity of Vespers in the evening and Compline at night. The majestic beauty of the environment captured in every season reflects a peace and tranquility that becomes an integral part of this monastic tapestry. The high red rock walls of the canyon where eagles fly cradle the valley whose stillness is broken only by the flowing waters of the Chama River and the winds that occasionally funnel through. Seeking God presents the ongoing process of the monastic way through the words and activities of these Benedictine monks as they move through the day and through the seasons in their search for God through prayer work study and song.
What Mennonites Are Thinking 1999
Author: Merle Good
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561482689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico the early morning stillness is broken by voices chanting praises to the Lord. And thus begins the daily cycle in the Godcentered life and search of the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.Seeking God is a monastic tapestry. The daily life of the monks is interwoven with the seasonal changes and celebrations and the candid words of the monks as they speak of their life their hopes and doubts their hardships fears and joys their prayer. Weaving this tapestry together are the hauntingly beautiful chants songs of praise and reverence that echo through the darkness before dawn throughout the day through the solemnity of Vespers in the evening and Compline at night. The majestic beauty of the environment captured in every season reflects a peace and tranquility that becomes an integral part of this monastic tapestry. The high red rock walls of the canyon where eagles fly cradle the valley whose stillness is broken only by the flowing waters of the Chama River and the winds that occasionally funnel through. Seeking God presents the ongoing process of the monastic way through the words and activities of these Benedictine monks as they move through the day and through the seasons in their search for God through prayer work study and song.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561482689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico the early morning stillness is broken by voices chanting praises to the Lord. And thus begins the daily cycle in the Godcentered life and search of the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.Seeking God is a monastic tapestry. The daily life of the monks is interwoven with the seasonal changes and celebrations and the candid words of the monks as they speak of their life their hopes and doubts their hardships fears and joys their prayer. Weaving this tapestry together are the hauntingly beautiful chants songs of praise and reverence that echo through the darkness before dawn throughout the day through the solemnity of Vespers in the evening and Compline at night. The majestic beauty of the environment captured in every season reflects a peace and tranquility that becomes an integral part of this monastic tapestry. The high red rock walls of the canyon where eagles fly cradle the valley whose stillness is broken only by the flowing waters of the Chama River and the winds that occasionally funnel through. Seeking God presents the ongoing process of the monastic way through the words and activities of these Benedictine monks as they move through the day and through the seasons in their search for God through prayer work study and song.
What Mennonites Are Thinking
Author: Merle Good
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561483006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Thought provoking and heart warming." -- Journal of Mennonite Studies Here is the third volume in an engaging series. Pointed and powerful, the book is a window into the souls of a people who intend to live with integrity, but are candid about the trouble it can be! "What Mennonites Are Thinking is a collection of various genres of literature: essays and articles, fiction, poetry, opinion and humor pieces, book reviews and film ratings. The writers come from a wide variety of Anabaptist-related groups--from Amish to Mennonite Brethren. Although mainly North Americans, a few writers from other continents are also included, thus giving the volume some international feeling." "Here is a sampling of the best in Mennonite writing in one volume." -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561483006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Thought provoking and heart warming." -- Journal of Mennonite Studies Here is the third volume in an engaging series. Pointed and powerful, the book is a window into the souls of a people who intend to live with integrity, but are candid about the trouble it can be! "What Mennonites Are Thinking is a collection of various genres of literature: essays and articles, fiction, poetry, opinion and humor pieces, book reviews and film ratings. The writers come from a wide variety of Anabaptist-related groups--from Amish to Mennonite Brethren. Although mainly North Americans, a few writers from other continents are also included, thus giving the volume some international feeling." "Here is a sampling of the best in Mennonite writing in one volume." -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
What Mennonites Are Thinking 2001
Author: Merle Good
Publisher: Good Books
ISBN: 9781561483235
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Thought provoking and heart warming." -- Journal of Mennonite Studies Here is the fourth volume in an engaging series. Pointed and powerful, the book is a window into the souls of a people who intend to live with integrity, but are candid about the trouble it can be! "What Mennonites Are Thinking is a collection of various genres of literature: essays and articles, fiction, poetry, opinion and humor pieces, book reviews and film ratings. The writers come from a wide variety of Anabaptist-related groups--from Amish to Mennonite Brethren. Although mainly North Americans, a few writers from other continents are also included, thus giving the volume some international feeling." "Here is a sampling of the best in Mennonite writing in one volume." -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
Publisher: Good Books
ISBN: 9781561483235
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Thought provoking and heart warming." -- Journal of Mennonite Studies Here is the fourth volume in an engaging series. Pointed and powerful, the book is a window into the souls of a people who intend to live with integrity, but are candid about the trouble it can be! "What Mennonites Are Thinking is a collection of various genres of literature: essays and articles, fiction, poetry, opinion and humor pieces, book reviews and film ratings. The writers come from a wide variety of Anabaptist-related groups--from Amish to Mennonite Brethren. Although mainly North Americans, a few writers from other continents are also included, thus giving the volume some international feeling." "Here is a sampling of the best in Mennonite writing in one volume." -- Mennonite Quarterly Review
Mennonites and Classical Theology
Author: A. James Reimer
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A collection of essays written over 20 years by A. James Reimer. Innovative ecumenical meditations on the era in which we live and what it means for Mennonites to think about the Christian faith in the contemporary world.
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A collection of essays written over 20 years by A. James Reimer. Innovative ecumenical meditations on the era in which we live and what it means for Mennonites to think about the Christian faith in the contemporary world.
Bridging the Generations
Author: Katie Funk Wiebe
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
ISBN: 9780836191622
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book is about changing attitudes and intergenerational relationships--and about bringing all generations closer together. Katie Funk Wiebe challenges readers to listen to the voice of God urging them to stretch out and touch one another, whatever the age, to make peoplehood a reality.
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
ISBN: 9780836191622
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book is about changing attitudes and intergenerational relationships--and about bringing all generations closer together. Katie Funk Wiebe challenges readers to listen to the voice of God urging them to stretch out and touch one another, whatever the age, to make peoplehood a reality.
The Amish
Author: Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait of Amish life, The Amish explores not only the emerging diversity and evolving identities within this distinctive American ethnic community, but also its transformation and geographic expansion. Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years researching Amish history, religion, and culture. Drawing on archival material, direct observations, and oral history, the authors provide an authoritative and sensitive understanding of Amish society. Amish people do not evangelize, yet their numbers in North America have grown from a small community of some 6,000 people in the early 1900s to a thriving population of more than 320,000 today. The largest populations are found in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, with additional communities in twenty-eight other states and three Canadian provinces. The authors argue that the intensely private and insular Amish have devised creative ways to negotiate with modernity that have enabled them to thrive in America. The transformation of the Amish in the American imagination from “backward bumpkins” to media icons poses provocative questions. What does the Amish story reveal about the American character, popular culture, and mainstream values? Richly illustrated, The Amish is the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait of Amish life, The Amish explores not only the emerging diversity and evolving identities within this distinctive American ethnic community, but also its transformation and geographic expansion. Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years researching Amish history, religion, and culture. Drawing on archival material, direct observations, and oral history, the authors provide an authoritative and sensitive understanding of Amish society. Amish people do not evangelize, yet their numbers in North America have grown from a small community of some 6,000 people in the early 1900s to a thriving population of more than 320,000 today. The largest populations are found in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, with additional communities in twenty-eight other states and three Canadian provinces. The authors argue that the intensely private and insular Amish have devised creative ways to negotiate with modernity that have enabled them to thrive in America. The transformation of the Amish in the American imagination from “backward bumpkins” to media icons poses provocative questions. What does the Amish story reveal about the American character, popular culture, and mainstream values? Richly illustrated, The Amish is the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century.
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Author: Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148750568X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148750568X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.
Book Review Index
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Practices: Mennonite Worship and Witness
Author: John D. Roth
Publisher: Herald Press
ISBN: 9780836194272
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Practices: Mennonite Worship and Witness, John D. Roth examines the traditions of Anabaptist-Mennonite worship. These practices, he argues, are part of an essential unity that transforms and renews the people of God and calls them to lives of integrity that are embodied with discipleship and mission. Roth reflects on how distinctive Mennonite practices such as baptism, communion, foot washing, and common meals extend beyond the church as a witness to the world. Practices is Roth's third book on Mennonite life in the 21st century, following Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice (2005), and Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be (2007). See the Table of Contents Read the Preface Read the Introduction Free downloadable study guide available here.
Publisher: Herald Press
ISBN: 9780836194272
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Practices: Mennonite Worship and Witness, John D. Roth examines the traditions of Anabaptist-Mennonite worship. These practices, he argues, are part of an essential unity that transforms and renews the people of God and calls them to lives of integrity that are embodied with discipleship and mission. Roth reflects on how distinctive Mennonite practices such as baptism, communion, foot washing, and common meals extend beyond the church as a witness to the world. Practices is Roth's third book on Mennonite life in the 21st century, following Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice (2005), and Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be (2007). See the Table of Contents Read the Preface Read the Introduction Free downloadable study guide available here.
The Jewish-Christian Schism
Author: John Howard Yoder
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Between 1971 and 1996 the late John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) wrote a series of ten essays revisiting the Jewish-Christian schism in which he argued that, properly understood, Jesus did not reject Judaism, Judaism did not reject Jesus, and the Apostle Paul’s universal mandate for the salvation of the nations is best understood not as a product of Hellenization, but rather in the context of his Jewish heritage. This posthumous collection of essays is arguably his most ambitious project and displays Yoder’s original thesis that the Jewish-Christian schism did not have to be. Originally published in 2003 by SCM Press and Eerdmans.
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Between 1971 and 1996 the late John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) wrote a series of ten essays revisiting the Jewish-Christian schism in which he argued that, properly understood, Jesus did not reject Judaism, Judaism did not reject Jesus, and the Apostle Paul’s universal mandate for the salvation of the nations is best understood not as a product of Hellenization, but rather in the context of his Jewish heritage. This posthumous collection of essays is arguably his most ambitious project and displays Yoder’s original thesis that the Jewish-Christian schism did not have to be. Originally published in 2003 by SCM Press and Eerdmans.