By James C. Juhnke
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But I should also confess my Mennonite unease with the individualism of such disclaimers. This book is not simply my own. Its insights and its limitations are partly mine and partly my people's. The book reflects the ways some Mennonite scholars in America see the story of their people at this point in their history. We have been especially insistent that American Mennonitism be seen as a Page 17 whole of interrelated parts, and as a movement shaped by its social and political environment. Not far beneath the surface of these chapters is a yearning, shared with previous generations of Mennonite historians, for the revitalization of the peoplehood and for the wider fulfillment of God's shalom on earth.
For me, its chairman, Robert S. Kreider, is an especially important mentor. Since we are both at Bethel College in Kansas we have consulted often on matters of content, interpretation, and style. As I wrote the various sections and chapters of the book, I shared drafts also with others who had special expertise and concerns in given areas. I cannot give adequate credit to all who thus advised me, but I should mention some. Amos Hoover helped me on Old Order Mennonites; Guy F. Hershberger on World War I and other topics; Allan Teichroew on World War I; Elizabeth Horsch Bender on John Horsch and Harold Bender; Paul Toews on Mennonite Brethren; Lois Barrett on Native Americans; Wilbert Shenk on Fundamentalism; Donald Durnbaugh on the ecumenical peace witness; and Anna Juhnke on Mennonite women.
Even while they saw the politics of nations and empires as alien and worldly, Dutch-Russian immigrants from the semiautonomous Mennonite villages of the Ukraine assumed that they as Christians could be involved positively in local public institutions. They were active in the social, economic, religious, and to some extent political tasks of building a Mennonite place in the world. The goal was a congregation-centered order, a congregation Christendom. That Christendom saw itself as separate from worldly Christendoms; yet its people participated more affirmatively in the life of local institutions than did their coreligionists of Swiss and south-German origin.
