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• W215484172 abstract "To explain why I am no longer a Mennonite I must begin with whether and to what degree I ever was a Mennonite. Although I am descended from David Martin of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Mennonite immigrant of 1727, who was, with his three brothers, ancestor to most of the Mennonite Martins, I did not know I was his descendant until curiosity led me to spend an afternoon in the Mennonite Historical Library in Goshen, Indiana late in my college years. I spent my first ten years attending the Elkhart Valley Church of the Brethren and had just begun to make up my mind to request baptism when my family left to join the local Grace Brethren Church. I grew up surrounded by things Mennonite, as a resident of rural Elkhart County and the son of a Goshen College alumna. Four years at Bethany Christian [Mennonite] High School in Goshen introduced me to the Mennonite world more directly, though I remained always something of an outsider. At the time I knew only vaguely that my mother's cousins were still Old Order Mennonite and that my great-grandfather had been a member of the preaching bench at the (Elkhart-St. Joseph) County Line Old Order Mennonite meetinghouse. My afternoon in the Historical Library in 1973 or 1974 showed me that my direct paternal ancestors in the Yellow Creek area of Elkhart County had married into Dunker (Brethren) families after their arrival in the late 1850s. (1) The martyr heritage preserved in the Anabaptist-Mennonite Martyrs Mirror that I encountered at Bethany High School resonated with me because, among the Grace Brethren, I had become familiar with Foxe's Book of Martyrs, but only as a set of tales from a long-distant past. Though I did not realize it at the time, I now realize that I was looking for recognizable and tangible historical ancestors in the faith with whom I could identify and who could give me an identity. The accounts in Martyrs' Mirror resonated with special force because the hymn that had stirred my emotions most, both musically and devotionally, during my childhood in the Church of the Brethren was Faith of Our Fathers. At Bethany High School I discovered that Mennonites, unlike the Grace Brethren, viewed their martyrology as in some sense still actively forming their identity, much as the Brethren did when they sang Faith of our fathers, living still, in spite of dungeon, fire, and sword how sweet would be their children's fate, if they, like them, could die for Thee. I had long assumed that Frederick W. Faber (1814-1863), the author of these words, was a typical English Protestant hymn writer like William Chatterton Dix or Augustus M. Toplady. Nearly forty years later, after I had been a Catholic for several years, I suddenly realized that the F. W. Faber in the Brethren, Evangelical and Mennonite hymnals was the same E W. Faber--Anglican convert to Catholicism and author of well-known works on spiritual theology--to whom Peter Erb had introduced me as a graduate student. In a flash I understood that the prisons referred to in Faith of Our Fathers were in England and Ireland, and the martyrs and confessors were Catholics suffering under the penal laws of Henry and Elizabeth, not Anabaptist inmates of German, Tyrolian and Swiss castle dungeons. All these years the lives of my suffering Catholic predecessors in the faith had, unwittingly, actually been forming my martyr consciousness. Moreover even later I realized that the third (originally fourth) verse, ... we will love both friend and foe in all our strife, and preach thee [faith] too, as love knows how, by kindly words and virtuous life ...--interpreted undoubtedly by Mennonites and Brethren as embodying Anabaptist principles of rejection of warfare, love of enemies and discipleship--in fact expressed classic Catholic principles: Augustine's insistence that even in justified warfare one may not kill out of hatred; that one is obliged without exception to love one's enemies (2)--even if one is dying at their hands; and that the Christian gospel is communicated as well as, or better, by example than by propositional preaching. …" @default.
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• W215484172 title "Retrospect and Apologia: Radical Reformation and the Search for Credible Radices" @default.
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