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Maintaining the right fellowship : a narrative account of life in the oldest Mennonite community in North America

Title
Maintaining the right fellowship : a narrative account of life in the oldest Mennonite community in North America / John L. Ruth ; commissioned by the Franconia Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church, and the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church.
Author
Ruth, John L.
Publication
Scottdale, Pennsylvania ; Kitchener, Ontario : Herald Press, 1984.

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Additional Authors
  • Franconia Mennonite Conference, issuing body.
  • General Conference Mennonite Church. Eastern District Conference, issuing body.
Description
616 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Series Statement
Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history ; no. 26
Uniform Title
Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history ; no. 26.
Subject
  • Franconia Mennonite Conference > History
  • General Conference Mennonite Church. Eastern District Conference > History
  • Franconia Mennonite Conference
  • Geschichte (1683-1947)
  • Geschichte (1648-1732)
  • Mennonites > Pennsylvania > History
  • Mennonites
  • Mennonites > Pennsylvania
  • Mennoniten
  • Pennsylvania > Church history
  • Pennsylvania
  • United States, Pennsylvania > Church history
  • Pfalz
Genre/Form
  • Church history
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 590-593.
Contents
General editor's preface -- Editorial committee's preface -- Author's preface -- "For the sake of their faith" (1648-1681) -- "Only ancient forest" (1682-1700) -- "They are a sober people... and will neither swear nor fight" (1700-1716) -- "In their own way and manner" (1717-1755) -- "Unlimited freedom" and "the flames of war" (1756-1786) -- "We will keep house as we understand it" (1787-1819) -- "The subject of assurance" vs. "the plain duties of a Christian" (1820-1839) -- "I thought I had a perfect right" (1840-1846) -- "This is not Christian" (1847) -- "Our reform" and "our people" (1848-1860) -- "Warfare : it's evils, our duty" (1861-1865) -- Faithfulness : covenant or mission? (1866-1890) -- Two paths into a new century (1891-1920) -- New faces, new doctrines, new congregations (1920-1930) -- "Conscience," "discipline," and "the original concept of the Church" (1930-1947) -- Epilogue: Restoring the right fellowship.
ISBN
  • 9780836112597
  • 0836112598
LCCN
83018579
OCLC
  • ocm09970684
  • 9970684
  • SCSB-607562
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library