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portada Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of c. Henry Smith (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History)
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English
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9780836199628

Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of c. Henry Smith (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History)

Perry Bush (Author) · · Paperback

Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of c. Henry Smith (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History) - Perry Bush

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Synopsis "Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of c. Henry Smith (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History)"

What does it mean to be Mennonite in the modern world And what is the witness of a peace church that is always at risk of splintering C Henry Smithson of an Amish family erudite historian urbane bank president and pioneer of Mennonite scholarshipsought answers to these questions in the middle of the 20th century and his answers reverberate through the church to this day In this engaging narrative biography historian Perry Bush chronicles Smiths childhood in an Illinois farming community his youthful turn toward intellectual inquiry and his confidence that Anabaptist faith and life offer gifts to the wider world By recounting the story of one of the foremost Mennonite intellectuals Bush surveys the storied terrain of 20thcentury Mennonite identity in its selective borrowing from wider culture and its tentative embrace of progressive reforms and higher education and growing conviction that Anabaptism served as a taproot of Western civilization Bush argues that Smiths body of historical writing furnished a new generation of Mennonites with both an understanding of their shared past and the tools to navigate an evershifting present Key points Biography of one of the premier Mennonite intellectuals in the 20th century Volume 49 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series 464 Pages

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