Jeremy M. Bergen

Concern for Church Mission and Spiritual Gifts

Evangelism & Missions

“We are indebted to Laura Schmidt Roberts for drawing our attention to these essays calling for reform and renewal not only for Mennonite churches but for other Christian traditions as well. Building on their critical engagement with the work of their predecessors, contemporary theologians Hyung Jin Kim Sun and Andrés Pacheco Lozano astutely add vital new perspectives and calls to action for churches in relation to culture, interculturality, mission, and spirituality.”

Participating Witness

Theology

“Anthony Siegrist argues persuasively that the Anabaptist tradition must reorient itself to more clearly recognize God's action in believers' baptism. Drawing on resources from the several Christian traditions to make this case, he does so in order to commend particular Anabaptist gifts to the wider church in the post-Christendom context. Participating Witness is an important and constructive intervention in several conversations.”

The Heterodox Yoder

Theology

“Building on a persuasive account of key shifts in John Howard Yoder's thinking, Paul Martens advances a provocative and refreshing thesis: Yoder's account of the particularity of Jesus Christ as ethical is, ultimately, heterodox. Yet, rather than reject him, Martens asks how critical engagement with Yoder might nevertheless help Christians resist the many temptations of modernity. The Heterodox Yoder is a lively and important book.”

Theology and the Crisis of Engagement

Theology

“At the heart of these compelling essays are questions about how theology, the church, and the wider world might be shaped, reshaped, or transformed by the irruption of a myriad of new voices. Taken together, the reader is confronted by the situatedness of all theologies, and at the same time, by glimpses of concrete hope within history. This volume fittingly honors and extends the work of Lee Cormie, educator and theologian of this new Pentecost.”