Perilous Journey: The Mennonite Brethren in Russia, 1860-1910

Perilous Journey: The Mennonite Brethren in Russia, 1860-1910
ISBN-10
0919797784
ISBN-13
9780919797789
Category
Religion
Pages
108
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Kindred Productions (c) 1988
Author
John B. Toews

Description

The history of any movement is always complex. At best its dynamic can be only partially understood. This is true of the Mennonite Brethren living in the Russia of the 1860s and 1870s. Their story can only be understood in the context of the political, social and religious world in which they lived and the circumstances associated with its ongoing transformation. The Mennonite Brethren story is one of becoming and so the laudatory and the contradictory, the good and the bad are generously mixed. The author has tried to tell both sides of the early Brethren story. He has written a narrative history which will contribute much to a better understanding of the dynamics which shaped the early Mennonite Brethren experience in Russia.

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