James P. Niessen

Living in the World

History & Biography

“Readers of Living in the World encounter a small religious and ethnic community that has maintained—or recovered?—its identity across five centuries and countries. After examining the doctrinal elements of this identity and the migration to the community’s successive homes, the author uses his genealogical database of 6,200 names and a comparison of the founding doctrines of the Mennonites with the theology of Holdeman people today to convincingly demonstrate continuity across time.”