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on of Mennonite Brethren hermeneutics consult; Abram John Klassen, '"The Roots and Development of Mennonite Brethren Theology to 1914* (M.A. thesis, Wheaton CoUege, 196©; George Warkenttn, "The Dynamism in Biblical Authority: Its Biblical Basis and Influence in Mennonite Brethren History" (M, A- thesis, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 1970); Kenneth Berg, "Mennonite 332 ENDNOTES pages 24-32 Brethren Hermeneutics in Anabaptist Perspective" (M.Div. thesis, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 1975)^ Ben Ollenburger, The Hermeneutics of Obedience: A Study of Anabaptist Herrnenuetics," Direction 6 (Apri] 1977): 19-29, 30. These observations are based on personal experience in many churches in Russia during my youth and early adulthood. 31 1 A. E Janzen, Mennonite Brethren Distinctive^ 8*9- 32. Friesen, The Mennonite Brotherhood in Russia, 72. 33 Observations based on personal experience and participation as a young adult. 34- The Mennonite Brethren chose to call their houses of worship Versammlung- shaus (assembly house) rather than Kircbe (church) as was the practice of the Men- nonire Church in Russia. The name Kircbe for them was symbolic of an ethnic insti- tutional religion from which they had withdrawn. CHAPTER 3 1. Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, {Die SoziaMehren der Cbtistlichen Kirchen und Gruppen) trans. OUve Wyon, 2 vols. (Chicago: The Uni- versity of Chicago Press, 1981), 2; 993 2. Geschtchte des Christticben Lehens in der Rheinisch-Westfatischen Kirche, quot- ed in Harold S. Bender, "The Anabaptist Vision/ Mennonite Quarterfy Review 18 (1944): 74 3. Cornelius J. Dyek, "The life of the Spirit in Anabaptlsmr Mennonite Quttrterty Review Al (1973): 309-26. 4. Ibid., 319. 5 lbkit 320. 6. Quoted in Peter M. Friesen, The Mennonite Brotherhood in Russia, (1 789-1910) \Att~Evangeiiscbe Mennonitiscbe BrOderschaft in Russfand (1789~t92Q)\t trans. J, B, Toews, Abraham Friesen, Peter J. Klassen and Harry Loewen (Fresno, Calif.: Board of Christian Literature, Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches* 1978), 231 < 7. The character and influence of Pietism on Mennonite Brethren faith and life b considered in chapter one. 8. S. F. Pannabecker, 'Conversion,* in The Mennonite Encyclopedia, eds. Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith (ScottdaJe, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1955), 9. Myron S. Augsburger, "Conversion in Anabaptist Thought," Mennonite! Quarter- fy Review 36 (1962): 243- 10. Confession of Faith of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America, Amer- ican Edition (Hillsboro, Kans,: Mennonite Brethren Publishing House