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Spring 2012 · Vol. 41 No. 1 · pp. 199–208 

Faculty Publications 2011

Vic Froese

Books

  • *Baker, Mark D., and Kefalew Eticha. Freedom Gospel. (In Amharic) Addis Ababa: Baranna, 2011. [FPBS]
  • *Baker, Mark D., and Joel B. Green. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts. Rev. ed. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011. [FPBS]
  • Doerksen, Paul G. and Karl Koop, eds. The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Dueck, Abe, Bruce L. Guenther, and Doug Heidebrecht, eds. Renewing Identity and Mission: Mennonite Brethren Reflections After 150 Years. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred, 2011. [CMU, MBBSC]
  • Huebner, Harry J. Introduction to Christian Ethics: History, Movements, People. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011. [CMU]
  • *Huebner, Harry J., and Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen, eds. Peace and Justice: Essays from the Fourth Shi’i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2011. [CMU]
  • Ruth-Heffelbower, Duane. After We’re Gone: A Christian Perspective on Estate and Life Planning for Families that Include a Dependent Member with a Disability. 3rd print ed. Harrisonburg, VA: Mennonite Publishing Network, 2011. [FPU]
  • Shillington, V. George. Jesus and Paul Before Christianity: Their World and Work in Retrospect. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011. [CMU]
  • Snyder, Anna C., and Stephanie P. Stobbe, eds. Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 32. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group, 2011. [CMU]
  • Toews, John B., and Paul Toews, eds. Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage in Ukraine (1922–1927): Mennonite and Soviet Documents. Fresno, CA: Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, 2011. [FPU]

Essays

  • Dueck, Gil. “A Faith I Can Call My Own: Emerging Adulthood and Its Implications for Discipleship.” In Renewing Identity and Mission: Mennonite Brethren Reflections after 150 Years, edited by Abe J. Dueck, Doug Heidebrecht and Bruce L. Guenther, 279–97. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred, 2011. [BC]
  • Dueck, Irma Fast. “Worship Made Strange.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 112–21. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Gerbrandt, Gerald. “Harry Huebner: A Servant of the Church.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 1–8. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Guenther, Bruce L. “Reflections on Mennonite Brethren Evangelical Anabaptist Identity.” In Renewing Identity and Mission: Mennonite Brethren Reflections After 150 Years, edited by Abe Dueck, Bruce L. Guenther, and Doug Heidebrecht, 47–82. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred, 2011. [MBBSC]
  • Huebner, Chris K. “Is a Christian University Strange Enough? Reflections on Loving and Hating the University.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 152–60. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Huebner, Harry J. “The Church as Embodied Metaphor of Peace and Justice.” In Peace and Justice: Essays from the Fourth Shi’i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue, edited by Harry J. Huebner and Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen, 153–64. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2011. [CMU]
  • Waldemar Janzen, “John Howard Yoder’s Ecclesiology: As Seen by an Appreciative Critic.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 36–51. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Klassen, Darlene. “A Widow’s Journey.” In The Voice of a Writer, edited by Doug Heidebrecht and Valerie G. Rempel, 67–77. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred, 2010. [BC]
  • Klassen-Wiebe, Sheila. “In the World But Not of the World: A Johannine Perspective on the Church-World Relationship.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 9–20. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Pauls, Cheryl. “Strains in the Voice of the Church Made Strange.” In The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology, edited by Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, 123–38. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. [CMU]
  • Reimer, Kevin et al. “Political Courage: New Methods for the Interdisciplinary Study of Virtue.” In Strange Bedfellows: Science and Ethics, edited by K. Monroe, 70–86. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2011. [FPU]
  • Schellenberg, Ryan S. “ ‘Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea’: Paul and the Perils of Travel.” In Travel and Religion in Antiquity, edited by Philip A. Harland, 141–61. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 21. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. [FPU]
  • Schultz, Brian. “Not Greeks but Romans: Changing Expectations for the Eschatological War in the War Texts from Qumran.” In The Jewish Revolt Against Rome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mladen Popovic, 107–27.  Journal for the Study of Judaism: Supplemental Series 154.  Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. [FPU]
  • Snyder, Anna C. “A Gendered Analysis of Refugee Transnational Bridgebuilding Capacity.” In Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements, edited by Anna C. Snyder and Stephanie P. Stobbe, 13–44. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group, 2011. [CMU]
  • Stobbe, Stephanie P. “The Soukhouan Ritual: The Legacy of Lao Women in Conflict Resolution.” In Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements, edited by Anna C. Snyder and Stephanie P. Stobbe, 47–75. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group, 2011. [CMU]
  • Vix, Lyndon, “Kansas.” In Business Torts: A Fifty State Guide, edited by Morton F. Dollar, 309–56. New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011. [TC]
  • Zerbe, Gordon. “Constructions of Paul in Filipino Theology of Struggle.” In The Colonized Paul: Paul Through Postcolonial Eyes, edited by C. Stanley, 236–55. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011. (Reprinted with minor revisions from Asia Journal of Theology 19, no. 1 [2005]: 188–220.) [CMU]
  • ———. “Peace and Justice in the Bible.” In Peace and Justice: Essays from the Fourth Shi’i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue, edited by Harry J. Huebner and Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen, 124–43. Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2011.
  • ———. “The Politics of Paul: His Supposed Social Conservatism and the Impact of Postcolonial Readings.” In The Colonized Paul: Paul Through Postcolonial Eyes, edited by C. Stanley, 62–73. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011. (Reprinted with minor revisions from Conrad Grebel Review 21, no. 1 [2003]: 82–103.)

Articles

  • Baker, Mark D. “Atonement.” In Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, edited by Joel Green, Jacqueline Lapsely, Rebekah Miles and Allen Verhey, 81–84. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011. [FPBS]
  • Balzer, David. “Chatting about God over the Airwaves: What I Learned about Interfaith Conversation.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, November 2011, 10–12. [CMU]
  • Born, Bryan. “Signs and Wonders: The Globalization of the Church and its Impact on Canadian Christians.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, June 2011, 12. [CBC]
  • Brown, W., S. Garrels, and *Kevin Reimer. “Mimesis and Compassion in Care for People with Developmental Disabilities.” Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 15, no. 4 (2011): 377–94. [FPU]
  • Brubacher John L. “Seeing More Clearly in a Blurry Landscape: Acknowledging Ambiguity in Science.” Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 28–39. [CMU]
  • Cooper, Brian. “ ‘God Saw That It Was Good’: Toward a Theology of Creation.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, January 2011, 8–9. [MBBSC]
  • Crozier, Karen D. “Seeing Jesus in the Midst of Conflict.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 60–64. [FPU]
  • Doerksen, Paul G. “Responding But Not Replying: David Bentley Hart and the ‘New Atheism.’ ” Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 80–89. [CMU]
  • Dueck, Gil. “Inwardness, Authenticity and Therapy: Charles Taylor, the Modern Self and the Implications for Modern Discipleship.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 11, no. 3 (2011): 5–20. [BC]
  • Epp-Tiessen, Dan. “Living Under God’s Judgment: A Sermon.” Direction 40 (2011): 235–40. [CMU]
  • Esau, Ken. “Disturbing Scholarly Behavior: Seibert’s Solution to the Problem of the Old Testament God.” Direction 40 (2011):168–78. [CBC]
  • Friesen, Fran Martens and Ken Martens Friesen. “Exploring Diversity in Vietnam and India.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 81–91. [FPU]
  • Froese, Vic. “Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age.” [Recommended Reading] Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 90–100. [CMU]
  • Funk-Unrau, Neil. “Exploring the Gap Between Mennonite and Indigenous Neighbours: Snapshots From the Story of Native Concerns, Mennonite Central Committee Canada.” Conrad Grebel Review 29, no. 1 (2011): 52–70. [CMU]
  • Gilbert, Pierre. “Braving the Interpretive Storm.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, May 2011, 14–15. [CMU]
  • ———. “Does the World Need a Saviour?” Mennonite Brethren Herald, April 2011, 17. [CMU]
  • ———. “Fighting Fire with Fire: Divine Nihilism in Ecclesiastes.” Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 65–79. [CMU]
  • ———. “A God of Wrath or a God of Grace?” The Messenger, May 2011, 11–13. [CMU]
  • ———. “The Greatest Event Ever.” The Messenger, April 2011, 10–11. [CMU]
  • ———. “Plumbers and Engineers Needed.” Christian Leader, June/July 2011, 10–11. [CMU]
  • Guenther, Titus. “Fighting with Lions.” Courier (Mennonite World Conference), no. 4 (2011): 11. [CMU]
  • Janzen, Waldemar. “The First Commandments of the Decalogue and the Battle Against Idolatry in the Old Testament.” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 12, no. 1 (2011): 15–24. [CMU]
  • ———. “Teaching the Old Testament: The ‘Problem’ of the Old Testament Revisited.” Direction 40, no. 2 (2011): 179–97. [CMU]
  • Kelly, S. P., *Andrew Sensenig, et al. “Damping Capacity is Evolutionarily Conserved in the Radial Silk of Orb Weaving Spiders.” Zoology 114 (2011): 233–38. [TC]
  • Kinnison, Quentin P. “Entering Each Other’s Story en la Frontera: The Nature of Narrative as Identity Formation in the Context of Conflicting Narratives and Some Implications for Intercultural Congregational Life.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 3–27. [FPU]
  • Klassen, Randy. “Taunts of the Divine Warrior in Job 40:6–14.” Direction 40, no. 2 (2011): 207–18. [BC]
  • Koop, Karl. “Congregational Orders and Church Disciplines (Gemeindeordnungen).” Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. May 2011. Web. 20 December 2011. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/congregational_orders_and_church_disciplines. [CMU]
  • ———. “Gemeindeordnungen (im Täufertum).” Mennonitisches Lexikon Band V – Revision und Ergänzung, Teil 2—Geschichte, Kultur, Theologie, edited by Hans-Jürgen Goertz, s.v. Weierhof, Germany: Mennonitisches Geschichtsverein e.V., 2010–2011. [CMU]
  • Kostlevy, William C. “Common Sense but No Common Cup: Evangelicals and the Logic of Intoxicant Free Worship.” Evangelical Studies Bulletin (Winter 2011): 1–3. [TC]
  • ———. “Perfecting Mennonites: The Holiness Movement’s Impact on American Mennonites with Special Reference to Kansas.” Brethren in Christ History & Life 34 (August 2011): 213–36. [TC]
  • Kunz, Michael. “The Challenge of Richard Dawkins: Answering an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist.” Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 17–27. [FPU]
  • Lebsock, Rene Mendel. “The Transformative Power of Literacy.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 92–100. [FPU]
  • Li, Changying, *Norman E. Schmidt, and Ron Gitaitis, “Detection of Onion Postharvest Diseases by Analyses of Headspace Volatiles Using a Gas Sensor Array and GC-MS.” LWT-Food Science and Technology 44 (2011): 1019–25. [TC]
  • Matties, Gordon. “Engaging Scripture’s Disturbing Texts: A Dialogue with Eric Seibert’s Disturbing Divine Behavior.” Direction 40, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 141–50. [CMU]
  • McMillen, Rebecca. “Diverse Audiences: Disability Access and the Art Museum.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 65–73. [FPU]
  • Neufeld, Justin A. “Faith, Fiction, and Skepticism: Transcendence in Flannery O’Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Camus.” Direction 40, no. 1 (2011): 51–64. [CMU]
  • Ottoson, Robin Deich. “The Battle Over the Flag: Protest, Community Opposition, and Silence in the Mennonite Colleges in Kansas During the Vietnam War.” Journal of Church and State 52, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 686–711. [TC]
  • Redekop, Paul. “Rituals of Retribution: From the Traditional to the Contemporary.” The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 1 (Fall 2011): 132–48. [CMU]
  • Reimer, Kevin. “Moral Identity.” In Encyclopedia of Adolescence, edited by R. Levesque, s.v. New York: Springer, 2011. [FPU]
  • Schellenberg, Ryan S. “Suspense, Simultaneity, and Divine Providence in the Book of Tobit.” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011): 313–27. [FPU]
  • Scorgie, G. and *Kevin Reimer. “Spirituality in Community.” In Encyclopedia of Christian Spirituality, edited by G. Scorgie, s.v. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011. [FPU]
  • Seibel, Cory L. “Coming Together or Coming Apart: Fostering Multicultural Communities of Christian Leaders in an Urban Context.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 28–59. [FPBS]
  • *Sensenig, Andrew T., I. Agnarsson, and T. A. Blackledge. “Adult Spiders Use Tougher Silk: Ontogenetic Changes in Web Architecture and Silk Biomechanics in the Orb-weaver Spider.” Journal of Zoology 285 (2011): 28–38. [TC]
  • Soloiu, Valentin, Jeff Lewis, April Covington, David Nelson, and *Norman Schmidt. “Oleic Methyl Ester Investigations in an Indirect Injection Diesel Engine; Stage One: Combustion Investigations.” SAE International, www.sae.org, 2011-01-0616, published 4/12/2011. [TC]
  • Sorensen, Sue. “Battle or Gratitude? Attitudes Conveyed to Children by Pokémon, Bakugan, and Magic Tree House Books.” Peace Research 41, no. 2 (2009): 5–29. [CMU]
  • Spezio, M., G. Peterson, W. Brown, Kevin Reimer, and J. Van Slyke. “Personality’s Role in Moral Action.” Science 332 (2011): 1380–81. [FPU]
  • Walling, Sherry. “The Intercultural Classroom: Reflections on the Development of a Psychologist.” Pacific Journal 6 (2011): 74–80. [FPU]

Doctoral Dissertations

Cooper, Brian. “Human Reason or Reasonable Humanity? Balthasar Hubmaier, Pilgram Marpeck, and Menno Simons and the Catholic Natural Law Tradition.” Doctor of Philosophy, Theology. University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. Submitted at Wycliffe College, Toronto, January 27, 2006. Supervisor: Dr. A. James Reimer (Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario). Current position: Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Theology, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary Canada.

Abstract: In contrast to what is frequently assumed about the Radical Reformers of the sixteenth century, this thesis argues that three prominent early Anabaptists—Balthasar Hubmaier, Pilgram Marpeck, and Menno Simons—articulated theology that parallelled the medieval natural law tradition in their treatises concerning the relationship between church and state. I will show that natural law theology undergirded their belief that human reason is central to moral awareness, and that humans possess a significant degree of moral freedom and the ability to discern God’s moral direction from the created order. These theological presuppositions informed the entreaties that Hubmaier, Marpeck, and Menno made to governing authorities for religious toleration for their Anabaptist followers, who were acknowledged even by their enemies to be model citizens. They also undergirded Anabaptist visions of how church and state should coexist, as well as Christian involvement in the state.

My choice of these Anabaptist leaders reflects the diversity in early Anabaptism and is intended to demonstrate that the correspondences among the three are indicative of a significant theological current in early Anabaptism. My demonstration of the parallels between Anabaptist natural law arguments and those from the medieval tradition is based on observations made in a survey of four major streams of the natural law tradition. I also briefly outline the role which natural law played in the theologies of Luther, Calvin, and “classical” Anabaptism in order to provide a frame of reference to help show the divergence of Anabaptist theologies of church and state relative to the larger stream of Reformation thought.

I conclude that Hubmaier, Marpeck, and Menno consistently show an orientation in which natural law prominently guides the Christian witness to the state. Natural law in the Anabaptist tradition works mainly through human reason understood as God-given human rationality. While natural law is an effective moral guide for all human beings, it is not an end in and of itself. Rather, it provides moral guidance which anticipates each person’s encounter with the gospel message leading to faith in Christ. Natural law is, however, effective as a means of preserving order in human interaction where explicitly Christian faith cannot be presupposed.

Masters Theses, Students at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary and Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary Canada, 2011

  • Bomar, Steve. “Missional Holiness: Moving Beyond Individual Abstinence.” [FPBS]
  • Garcia, Cesar. “God Speaks Today: What Does this Mean in the Midst of Suffering and Oppression? Revelation in Contextual Perspective.” [FPBS]
  • McCorkindale, Nathan. “The Judgment of Forgiveness: A Theological Exploration into Divine Forgiveness and Wrath through the Lens of Miroslav Volf.” [FPBS]

This bibliography includes publications of faculty, emeriti, 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)
  • Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary (FPBS)
  • Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary Canada (MBBSC)
  • Tabor College (TC)

In cases of multiple authorship, the author of interest is marked with an asterisk (*).

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