Faculty writings - 2005-06

2005-2006

The members of the AMBS faculty blend vigorous scholarship with service to the church and caring mentoring and teaching of students. They pursue many avenues of scholarship, all with the vision of helping the church to understand the Scriptures, and to continue being faithful followers of Jesus Christ.

Books

Boers, Arthur Paul, Eleanor Kreider, John Rempel, Mary H. Schertz, and Barbara Nelson Gingerich, eds. Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies; Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2005.

Elias, Jacob W. Remember the Future: The Pastoral Theology of Paul the Apostle. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2006.

Krabill, James R., Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, editors. Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.

Kreider, Alan, Eleanor Kreider, and Paulus Widjaja. A Culture of Peace: God's Vision for the Church. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2005.

McPhee, Art. The Road to Delhi: J. Waskom Pickett Remembered. Bangalore, India: SAIACS Press, 2005.
---, editor. Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education 20 (2004-2005).

Rempel, John, guest editor. Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005), on the theme of worship.

Sawatsky, Walter. editor. Mission Focus: Annual Review (2005).
---, co-editor. Religion in Eastern Europe (quarterly).
---, and Peter F. Penner, eds. Mission in the Former Soviet Union. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.

Swartley, Willard. Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI.: Wm B. Eerdman's Publications, 2006.
______, ed. The Politics of Discipleship and Discipleship in Politics: Jürgen Moltman Lectures in Dialogue. Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2006.

Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005), on the theme of worship. Published by Institute of Mennonite Studies (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary) and Institute for Theology and the Church (Canadian Mennonite University).

Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 7, no. 1 (Spring 2006), on the theme of salvation. Published by Institute of Mennonite Studies (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary) and Institute for Theology and the Church (Canadian Mennonite University).

Yoder, June Alliman, Marlene Kropf, and Rebecca Slough. Preparing Sunday Dinner: A Collaborative Approach to Worship and Preaching. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2005.

Yoder, Perry, ed. Take This Word to Heart: The Shema in Torah and Gospel. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2005.

Articles

Barrett, Lois. "Defining Missional Church." In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk, edited by James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, 177-83. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.

Boers, Arthur Paul. "Can you blame Thomas?" Biblical Preaching Journal (Spring 2005): 3-5.
---. "Design surely didn't include waste." The Truth (18 September 2005), A5.
---. "Thank You for Sharing." Canadian Mennonite (3 April 2006), 10.
---. "Thank You for Zebra Mussels, Asian Ladybugs and Sharing?" The Mennonite (21 February 2006), 8-11.

Elias, Jacob. "From a Distance: Pastoral Care and Theological Education." Teaching Theology and Religion 9, no. 1 (January 2006): 44-52.

Johns, Loren. "Christian Zionism and Biblical Interpretation." Mennonite Central Committee Peace Office Newsletter 35, no. 3 (July-September 2005), 7-10. The theme of this issue is Christian Zionism and peace in the Holy Land.
---. "Conceiving Violence: The Apocalypse of John and the Left Behind Series." Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum 34, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 194-214. Revision of presentation in the "John's Apocalypse and Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern" section of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2004.
---. "Homosexuality and the Bible: A Case Study in the Use of the Bible for Ethics." DreamSeeker Magazine: Voices from the Soul 6, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 9-11. Issue theme: Toward a Genuine Conversation on Homosexuality.

Kotva, Joseph J. Jr., and Tim Jost, "Response to Frederic Fransen." Mennonite Life 61, no. 1 (March 2006): http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2006Mar/jost_and_kotva_response.php.

Krahn, Karmen, and Marlene Kropf. "Becoming Bread: A Five-Sunday Worship Series." Leader: Equipping the Missional Congregation (Summer 2006), 25-39. On Jesus' 'I Am the Bread of Life' Sayings.
---. "Send Our Roots Rain: Resources for a Six-Part Worship Series on the Psalms." Leader: Equipping the Missional Congregation (Summer 2005): 22-35.

Kreider, Alan. "Anabaptist/Mennonite Identity." MERC Izumi (Japan) 21 (2006).
---. "Holiness and Risk (Acts 10)," MERC Izumi (Japan) 21 (2006).
---. "Masculine Spirituality: Four Crucial Areas for Being a Christian Male." The Mennonite (20 September 2005), 8-10.
---. "Missiologist Honored by Colleagues at AMBS." Mennonite Weekly Review (12 December 2005), 8.
---. "West Europe in Missional Perspective: Themes from Mennonite Mission, 1950-2004." In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk, edited by James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, 206-215. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.

Kreider, Eleanor. "Creating a Daily Office for Mennonites." Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 77-83.

Kropf, Marlene. "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down." The Mennonite (21 February 2006), 18.
---. "How Do We Know When It's Good Worship?" Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 36-44.
---. "Sabbath Space in the Workplace." Leader: Equipping the Missional Congregation (Fall 2005), 25.
---. "We Joyfully Follow Jesus into the World." http://www.mennoniteusa.org//onesource//JoyfullyFollowJesus.pdf.
---, ed. "With the Spirit's Daring: An Interchurch Relations Guide for Local Settings." http://www.mennoniteusa.org/onesource/with-the-spirits-daring.doc.

McPhee, Art. "Authentic Witness, Authentic Evangelism, Authentic Church." In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk, edited by James R. Krabill, WalterSawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, 130-39. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
---. "A Reminder Via McLuhan." Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education 20, (2004-2005): 6.

Ollenburger, Ben. "Pursuing the Truth of Scripture: Reflections on Nicholas Wolterstorff's Divine Discourse." In But Is It All True? The Bible and the Question of Truth, edited by Alan G. Padgett and Patrick R. Keifert, 44-65. GrandRapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
---. "True Evangelical Faith: The Anabaptists and Christian Confession." Mennonite Life 60 (June 2005). http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2005Sept/ollenburger.php.

Rempel, John. "Ambiguous Legacy: The Peace Teaching, Speaking Truth to Power, and Mennonite Assimilation through the Centuries." In At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security, and the Wisdom of the Cross, edited by Duane K. Friesen and Gerald Schlabach. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2005.
---. "In Christ All Things Hold Together." Canadian Mennonite (September 5, 2005), 6-8. Adaptation of Rosthern Junior College address.
---. "Peace Churches." In Christianity: A Complete Guide, edited by John Bowden. London: Continuum, 2005.
---. "Peace Churches." In Eerdmans-Brill Encyclopedia of Christianity, vol. 4. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.
---. "Ritual as My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account." Mennonite Quarterly Review 79, no. 1 (January 2005). Adaptation of 2003 ritual conference address.
---. "Worship in the Anabaptist Tradition." In The Oxford History of Christian Worship, edited by K. Westerfield Tucker and G. Wainwright. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Sawatsky, Walter. "Anabaptism Seen as Vital for Mission in Eastern Europe." Mennonite Weekly Review (6 March 2006), 7.
---. "The Centrality of Mission and Evangelization in the Slavic Evangelical Story." In Mission in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Walter Sawatsky and Peter F. Penner, 38-63. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
---. "Educators for Mission and the Western Missionaries." In Theological Education as Mission, edited by Peter F. Penner, 215-46. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
---. "Inter-Church Mission Dialogue: Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical." In Mission in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Walter Sawatsky and Peter F. Penner, 164-87. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
---. "Living and Writing the Vision: The Missiological Pilgrimage of Wilbert Shenk." In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation, edited by James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, 1-17. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
---. "Mennonites and Mission in Eurasia." Mission Focus: Annual Review 13 (2005): 128-35.
---. "Mennonity v otsenke rossiiskikh i sovetskikh predstavitelei vlasti. Ofitsialniyi arkhivnyi svidetel'stva" [Mennonite Sectarians in the Eyes of Russian/Soviet Authorities: What the Archives Reveal]. In Iz istorii mirotvorchestva i intelligentsii. Svornik pamiati T. A. Pavlovo, edited by Daniel Heinz and Denis A. Sdvizhkov, 93-117. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005. A posthumous Festschrift.
---. "Return of Mission and Evangelism in the CIS (1980s-Present)." In Mission in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Walter Sawatsky and Peter F. Penner, 94-119. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
---. "What if the Three Worlds of Christian History Converged?" In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation, edited by James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky, and Charles E. Van Engen, 38-48. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
---. "Why We Must Talk: The Urgency of Mission Dialogue among Evangelicals in the CIS." In Mission in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Walter Sawatsky and Peter F. Penner, 202-225. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.
---. "Without God We Cannot, Without Us God Won't: Thoughts on God's Mission within CIS in the Future." In Mission in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Walter Sawatsky and Peter F. Penner, 250-75. Schwarzfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2005.

Schertz, Mary. "Divine Intimacy and the Paradox of the Cross." Pondering the Word column. Leader: Equipping the Missional Congregation (Winter 2005-2006), 27-28.
---. "Partners with God's Passion." In At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security, and the Wisdom of the Cross, edited by Duane K. Friesen and Gerald Schlabach. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2005.
---. "We've Come This Far By Faith." DreamSeeker Magazine: Voices from the Soul 6, no. 1 (Winter 2006), 34-38.

Schipani, Daniel. "La iglesia y el ministerio educativo: el contexto eclesial como paradigma." Kairós 37 (julio-diciembre 2005): 121-32.
---. "Sabiduría a la luz de Dios: la inteligencia espiritual como contenido esencial." Kairos 38 (enero-junio 2006): 111-29.

Slough, Rebecca. "What Shall We Sing?" Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 28-35.

Tripp, David. "A Final Word: Extreme Unction." Epworth Review 32, no. 3 (July 2005): 94.
---. "The Funeral Rite in the British Methodist Churches." Studia Liturgica 35, no. 2 (2005): 158-91.

Yoder, June Alliman. "Let Your Face Shine." Biblical Preaching Journal 18, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 22-23.

Book reviews

Boers, Arthur Paul. Review of Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year, by Robert E. Webber. Spotlight on Northern (Winter 2006), 31.
---. Review of Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, by Eugene H. Peterson. Christian Century (9 August 2005), 36-37.
---. Review of The Right Road: Life Choices for Clergy, by Gwen Wagstrom Halaas. Congregations (Summer 2005), 32-33.
---. Review of Selling Ourselves Short: Why We Struggle to Earn a Living and Have Life, by Catherine M. Wallace. Christian Century (5 April 2005), 43-45.
---. Review of So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality, by Debra Rienstra. Christian Century (19 April 2005), 38-39.
---. Review of A Spiritual Field Guild: Meditations for the Outdoors, by Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil. Christian Century (10 January 2006), 47.
---. "The Sacred Art of Pilgrimage." Review of Walk in a Relaxed Manner: Life Lessons from the Camino, by Joyce Rupp; Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Soul, by Kerry Temple; and Wandering Monks, Virgins and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, A.D. 300-800, by Maribel Dietz. Catholic New Times 19 (March 2006; summer supplement), 1, 3, 5, 8.

Elias, Jacob W. Review of A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice, 2nd ed., edited by Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge, and Stephanie Marshall. Teaching Theology and Religion 8, no. 3 (July 2005): 192-93.

Koontz, Ted. Review of Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology, edited by Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs. Mennonite Quarterly Review 79, no. 4 (October 2005): 561-63.

Kreider, Alan. Review of Prophecy, Miracles, Angels, and Heavenly Light? The Eschatology, Pneumatology, and Missiology of Adomnán's Life of Columba, by James Bruce. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30, no. 2 (2006): 107-108.

Ollenburger, Ben. Review of Robert P. Gordon, Holy Land, Holy City: Sacred Geography and the Interpretation of the Bible (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68 (2006), 113-14.
______. Review of John Goldingay, Old Testament Theology, Volume One: Israel's Gospel (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2003), in Interpretation 60 (2006), 214-16.

Tripp, David. Review of Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament, by Bart D. Ehrman, and Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart D. Ehrman. Sacramental Life 17, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 35-37.
---. Review of Ritual, Text, and Law: Studies in Medieval Canon Law and Liturgy Presented to Roger E. Reynolds, edited by Kathleen G. Cushing and Richard F. Gyug. Worship 79, no. 4 (July 2005): 376-78.
---. Review of The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations, edited by Martin H. Manser. Sacramental Life 17, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 40-41.