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Informationen zum Autor Theron F. Schlabach taught history at Goshen (Indiana) College from 1965 to 1998. He holds a masters and PhD in U.S. social history from the University of Wisconsin, where he attended as a Danforth Fellow. He was editor of the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series and The Mennonite Experience in America Series, and he served as interim editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review . From 1995 to 1997 he was Senior Fellow of the Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups, at Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College. His previous books include: Gospel Versus Gospel: Mission and the Mennonite Church, 1863-1944 and Peace, Faith, Nation: Mennonites and Amish in Nineteenth-Century America . Klappentext John Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace. But before Yoder there was Guy F. Hershberger, whose reflections on war, violence and peace helped Mennonites navigate perilous times in early to mid-20th century, and who also laid the foundation for what became the Alternative Service Program in the U.S. during World War II. In the 1960s, he played an important role in guiding the Mennonite church's response to the civil rights movement, nudging them toward greater openness to Martin Luther King's call for justice for African-Americans.In this definitive biography, Theron F. Schlabach shows how Hershberger helped Christians live their faith in a world beset by war and injustice, at the same time pioneering creative ways to engage pressing concerns such as civil rights, economic justice and capital punishment.
