Spring 2011 · Vol. 40 No. 1 · pp. 123–130
Current Research
Faculty Publications 2010
BOOKS
Dueck, Abe, Helmut Harder, and *Karl Koop, eds. New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Dula, Peter and *Chris K. Huebner, eds. The New Yoder. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010. [CMU]
*Huebner, Chris K. and Tripp York, eds. The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Isaak, Jon. New Testament Theology: Extending the Table. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011. [MBBS]
*Janzen, Rod and Max Stanton. The Hutterites in North America. Young Center Books in Pietist and Anabaptist Studies. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. [FPU]
Kostlevy, William. Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. [TC]
Miller, Douglas B. Ecclesiastes. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2010. [TC]
*Schellenberg, Jill and John P. J. Dussich, eds. The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
ESSAYS
Brandt, Gareth. “How Anabaptist Theology and the Emergent Church Address the Problem of Individualism in the Believers Church.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop, 272–89. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CBC]
Claassen, Ron and Zenebe Abebe. “Dispute Resolution in Higher Education.” In The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Ed. John P. J. Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, 195–201. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
Dueck, Irma Fast. “(Re)learning to Swim in Baptismal Waters: Contemporary Challenges in the Believers Church Tradition.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop, 237–55. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Dyck, Paul. “George Herbert and the Liturgical Experience of Scripture.” In George Herbert’s Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton. Ed. Christopher Hodgkins, 197–210. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2010. [CMU]
———. “Reading from the Margins at Little Gidding.” In Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality. Ed. David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer, 47–70. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2010. [CMU]
Froese, Vic. “By the Grace of God I Am What I Am [A short biography of H.H. Janzen].” In Leaders Who Shaped Us: Canadian Mennonite Brethren 1910–2010. Ed. Harold Jantz, 147–57. Winnipeg, MB and Goessel, KS: Kindred Productions, 2010. [CMU]
Guenther, Bruce L. “Life in a Muddy World: Historical and Theological Reflections on Denominationalism.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop, 51–72. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Harris, Breck. “Three Techniques to Create Community with Adult Learners.” In Best Practices in the Integration of Faith and Learning for Adult and Online Learners. Ed. Cheryl Fleming and Cynthia Tweedell, 42–48. Marion, IN: Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) Center for Research in Adult Learning, Indiana Wesleyan University, 2010. [FPU]
Huebner, Chris K. “Marginality, Martyrdom and the Messianic Remnant: Reflections on the Political Witness of St. Paul.” In Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality. Ed. David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer, 131–48. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010. [CMU]
———. “Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ: Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed.” In The New Yoder. Ed. Peter Dula and Chris K. Huebner, 121–41. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010. [CMU]
———. “Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation: What Might Milbank and Mennonites Learn from Each Other?” In The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation. Ed. Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, 205–16. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
———. “The Work of Reading: Hauerwas, MacIntyre, and the Question of Liberalism.” In Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas’s 70th Birthday. Ed. Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, and Charles M. Collier, 284–99. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010. [CMU]
Huebner, Harry J. “Participation, Peace, and Forgiveness: Milbank and Yoder in Dialogue.” In The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation. Ed. Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, 180–204. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Janzen, Dennis. “Restorative Discipline in Athletics.” In The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Ed. John P. J. Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, 203–17. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
Janzen, Jeanne and Patricia S. Anderson. “Encouraging Authentic Leadership the Online Way.” In Best Practices in the Integration of Faith and Learning for Adult and Online Learners. Ed. Cheryl Fleming and Cynthia Tweedell, 59-66. Marion, IN: Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) Center for Research in Adult Learning, Indiana Wesleyan University, 2010. [FPU]
Johnston, W. Marshall. “Appraising Athanasius’ Life of Antony.” In Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education. Ed. Patrick T. Flynn et al., 247–54. New York: University Press of America, 2010. [FPU]
Klassen-Wiebe, Sheila. “The One and the Many.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop, 7–29. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Koop, Karl. “Reading Tradition Through Catholic Lenses: Moving Beyond Restorationism.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, Karl Koop, 125–42. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Publications, 2010. [CMU]
Pauls, Cheryl. “Harmony in Exile: Rest in its Embers.” In The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation. Ed. Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, 147–79. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
Ruth-Heffelbower, Duane. “Innovations in Correctional Settings.” In The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Ed. John P. J. Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, 13–26. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
———. “Restorative Justice in Disaster Management.” In The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Ed. John P. J. Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, 219–26. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
———. “Solutions for Business Conflicts.” In The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Ed. John P. J. Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, 155–62. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. [FPU]
*Sawatsky, Jarem and Len Sawatsky. “Colonialization and Christianization.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence. Ed. Jeff Ross, 183–92. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2010. [CMU]
Sears, Jonathan. “Peace-Building between Canadian Values and Local Knowledge: Some Lessons from Timbuktu.” In Locating Global Order: American Power and Canadian Security After 9/11. Ed. B. Charbonneau and W. Cox, 260–75. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. [CMU]
Sorensen, Sue. “John K. Samson, Poet Laureate of Winnipeg Rock.” In States of the Art: Considering Poetry Today. Ed. Klaus Martens, 123–34. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. [CMU]
Vix, Lyndon. “Kansas.” In Business Torts: A Fifty State Guide. Ed. Morton F. Dollar, 305–37. New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2010. [TC]
Zerbe, Gordon. “On the Exigency of a Messianic Ecclesiology: An Engagement with Philosophical Readers of Paul.” In Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical. Ed. Doug Harink, 254–81. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010. [CMU]
———. “The Relevance of Paul’s Eschatological Ecclesiology for Ecumenical Relations.” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Ed. Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop, 30–47. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010. [CMU]
ARTICLES
Berg, Doug. “Beyond Ourselves Leadership: A Model for the Church.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, May 2010, 12–13. [MBBS]
Born, J. Bryan. “Christian Churches in Southern Africa—The Challenge of Rebuilding Civil Society.” Mission Focus 17 (2009): 113–130. [CBC]
———. “Promise of Power—How New Pentecostals Respond to Rapid Social Change in Botswana.” Missionalia 35, no. 3 (2007): 43–66. [CBC]
Dahlquist, Ruth M. et al. “Tillage Affects the Activity-density, Absolute Density and Feeding Damage of the Pea Leaf Weevil (Coleoptera curculionidae) in Spring Pea.” Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 136 (2010): 235–42. [FPU]
Derksen, John. “Why Did Early Christians Turn Violent? The Case of Egyptian Monks.” Near East School of Theology Theological Review 31, no. 1 (2010): 60–91. [CMU]
Derksen, R.W. and *Rogalsky, Tim. “Bézier-PARSEC: An Optimized Aerofoil Parameterization for Design.” Advances in Engineering Software 41 (July/August 2010): 923–30. [CMU]
Froese, Brian. “Monsters in the Church: Marking the Body in Evangelical Horror.” Direction 39 (Fall 2010): 204–19. [CMU]
Geddert, Tim. “Taufe, Sündenvergebung und Ethik.“ Mennonitisches Jahrbuch (2010): 27–30. [MBBS]
Guenther, Bruce L. “From Isolation and Ethnic Homogeneity to Acculturation and Multi-cultural Diversity: The Mennonite Brethren and Canadian Culture.” Direction 39 (Fall 2010): 138–61. [MBBS]
Huebner, Chris K. “Make Us Your Laughter: Stanley Hauerwas’s Joke on Mennonites.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 84 (July 2010): 357–73. [CMU]
Kinnison, Quentin. “Shepherd or One of the Sheep? Revisiting the Biblical Metaphor of the Pastorate.” Journal of Religious Leadership 9 (2010): 59–91. [FPU]
Klassen, Randy. “Monopods, Magic, and Mission: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Spell for Making Hidden Theology Visible’.” Direction 39 (Fall 2010): 189–203. [BC]
Koop, Karl. “God’s Work Extends Beyond our Worldview.” Canadian Mennonite, 25 January 2010, 4–6. [CMU]
Kyle, Richard G. “The Electronic Church: An Echo of American Culture.” Direction 39 (Fall 2010): 162–76. [TC]
———. “Inconsistent Evangelicals.” Christian Leader, June/July 2010, 16–18. [TC]
Miller, Douglas B. “Scholars Serving the Congregation,” Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology 11 (Fall 2010): 27–33. [TC]
Neufeld, Tim. “Can Mennonite Brethren Be Missional?” Direction 39 (Spring 2010): 41–55. [FPU]
Nickel, Eleanor. “ ‘But This is the South’: Ambivalent Regionalism in Jan Karon’s Mitford Novels.” Studies in Popular Culture 32 (2010): 17–33. [FPU]
Pope, Jay. “Your Own Worst Enemy: The Madness of Self-Defeating Choices.” Valley Health Magazine, May/June 2010. [FPU]
*Rogalsky, Tim and Derksen, R.W. “Bézier-PARSEC Parameterization for Airfoil Optimization.” Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal 55, no. 3 (2009): 163–74. [CMU]
Seibel, Cory L. “The Heart of God in the Heart of the City: Missional Vocation and the Urban Congregation.” Direction 39 (Spring 2010): 56–70. [MBBS]
———. “Show and Shape: How Congregational Worship Times Show and Shape Us as Followers of Christ.” Christian Leader, February/March 2010, 14–16. [MBBS]
*Seibel, Cory L. and Malan Nel. “Generation X, Intergenerational Justice and the Renewal of the Traditioning Process.” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 66, no. 2 (2010), Art. #876. [MBBS]
*Sensenig, Andrew, I. Agnarsson, and T. A. Blackledge. “Behavioral and Biomaterial Coevolution in Spider Orb Webs.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (2010): 1839–56. [TC]
*Sensenig, Andrew, I. Agnarsson, T. Gondek, and T. A. Blackledge. “Webs in Vitro and in Vivo: Spiders Alter Their Orb Web Spinning Behavior in the Laboratory.” Journal of Arachnology 38 (2010): 183–91. [TC]
*Sensenig, Andrew, J.W. Shultz, and K. Kiger. “Hydrodynamic Pumping by Serial Gill Arrays in the Mayfly Nymph Centroptilum Triangulifier.” Journal of Experimental Biology 213 (2010): 3319–31. [TC]
*Shukla, Shailesh and A. J. Sinclair. “Strategies for Self-organization: Learning from Village-level Community-based Conservation Initiative in India.” Human Ecology 38, no. 2 (2010): 205–15. [CMU]
Sorensen, Sue. “Liberation and Love: On Teaching in a Christian University.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, March 2010, 17. [CMU]
Unger, Walter. “Homosexuality: Blending Understanding, Compassion, and Conviction.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, June 2010, 11. [CBC]
Yamasaki, Gary. “Enhancing Student Engagement in a Course on the Book of Acts.” Conrad Grebel Review 28 (Spring 2010): 34-44. [CBC]
Zerbe, Gordon. “The One and the Many, the Part and the All: Unity and Diversity in the Messiah’s Body Politic.” Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology 11 (Spring 2010): 77–90. [CMU]
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Born, J. Bryan. “Worlds of the Spirit.” Exploring African Spiritual and New Pentecostal Church Relations in Botswana. Doctor of Theology, Missiology. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Graduated May 31, 2010. Research Promoter: Professor Tinyiko S. Maluleke. Current position: Director of Intercultural Studies, Columbia Bible College.
Abstract: Similar to other countries in southern Africa, the relationship between African Spiritual Churches and New Pentecostal Churches in Botswana has been characterized by considerable tension and mutual distrust. Although both movements highlight the third person of the Trinity, the Spirit of God, their followers view the world around them very differently. This study has investigated the relationship between these two types of churches by focusing on their efforts to produce unique ideologies of spiritual power in relation to the two major ideologies in the Botswana context, namely the reified Setswana worldview and the globalizing forces of Western modernity. The Hermon Church and Revelation Blessed Peace Church served as examples for the African Spiritual Churches, while Goodnews Ministries and Bible Life Ministries were the New Pentecostal subjects. Church origins, biblical hermeneutics, healing and deliverance rituals, and approaches to cultures and covenants formed the key areas of study. Creating unique “worlds of the Spirit” by means of innovative tactics, both types of churches seek to enable their followers to live well as they produce their contextualized ideologies of power. However, even though both movements lay claim to the Spirit of God as their source of power, the distinctive ideologies emerging from their sermons, technologies, rituals and symbols have brought them into conflict with one another. For African Spiritual Churches, the Spirit of God meets people in the midst of life’s struggles, providing healing and wholeness in all relationships. Their willingness to adopt certain elements of the reified Setswana worldview is a major issue in the conflict with New Pentecostal Churches. For New Pentecostals, the Spirit breaks all covenants made in the past, and empowers “born again” believers to succeed in a modern, urban environment filled with opportunities and challenges. The key missiological concern of this study is to explore the unique efforts of these movements to contextualize the gospel message for Botswana.
MASTERS THESES, STUDENTS AT MENNONITE BRETHREN BIBLICAL SEMINARY, 2010
Runkevich, Yevgeniy. “Divorce Logia in the New Testament: What they Say to Contemporary Western Culture.”
This bibliography includes publications of faculty and students of schools that sponsor Direction, identified as follows:
Bethany College (BC)
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU)
Columbia Bible College (CBC)
Fresno Pacific University (FPU)
Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary (MBBS)
Tabor College (TC)
In cases of multiple authorship, the author of interest is marked with an asterisk (*).
