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y such a study has been made by A. J. Klassen in "Roots and Development of Mennonite Brethren Theology to 1914" (Unpublished M.A. thesis) . 7. Friesen, as given in translation by A. J. Klassen "Roots and Development . . .," pp. 59-60. (With slight changes in translation.] 8. Ibid., p. 61. 9. Cf. Confession of Faith (American Edition), pp. 18-27. 10. Translated from original Olaubensbehenntnis der Vereinigten Christlichen Taufge- sinnten Mennonitischen Bruedergemeinde in Russland (Halbstadt: Raduga, 1902), pp. 17-18. 11. Friesen, op. cit., p. 204. 12. Krahn, MQR, IX (1935), 173. 13. C. Krahn, in "Pietism," ME, IV, 176. 14. Cited by Friedmann, Mennonite Piety . . ., p. 4. 15. Cited by Friedmann, ibid. 16. Friesen, op. cit., p. 41. FOOTNOTES 465 17. Wiebe in Church in Mission, p. 132. Wiebe made a special study of Johann Amdt's book, Wahres Christentum, which was so popular among the Russian Mennonites in the nineteenth century in his thesis: "Johann Arndt: Precursor of Pietism" (Unpublished dissertation, University of Iowa, 1965). 18. In ME, IV, 178. 19. Cf. "Antrittspredigt," Friesen, op. cit„ p. 181. 20. Crous in The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision, p. 241. 21. G. W. Peters, op. cit., p. 33. 22. See Becker, op. cit., p. 80. 23. ME, I, 227. 24 . A mimeographed English translation of this confession is available in the Archives of Pacific College, Fresno. 25. Cf. F. C. Peters' article, "The Early Mennonite Brethren Church: Baptist or Anabaptist?" Mennonite Life, XXV:2 lOctober, 1959), 176ff. 26. J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 38. 27. Cf. Konferenzberichte (1892), pp. 141-145. 28. F. C. Peters, in Mennonite Life (Oct., 1959), 178. 29. Prieb in A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 78. 30. Cf. Friesen, op. cit., p. 359. 31. A. E. Janzen's statement, "conversion leads to the miracle of regeneration," in Mennonite Brethren Distinctiues (p. 6), should not leave the impression of a cause-effect relationship. For Mennonite Brethren conversion and regeneration have always been two aspects of our salvation experience. 32. Confession of Faith (American Edition), p. 13-14. 33. Klassen in Journal of Church & Society (Fall, 1965), p. 64. 34. A. J. Klassen, "Roots and Development . . .", p. 191. 35. See Vernon E. Janzen, "An Evaluation of Current Concepts of Conversion held by Mennonite Brethren in the United States" (Unpublished B.D. thesis, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 1966), chapter five, for an analysis of present trends in the M.B. Church. 36. D. Wiens, New Wineskins for Old Wine (Hillsboro: M.B. Publishing House, 1965), p. 5. 37. Krahn, "Some Social Attitudes of the Mennonites in Russia," MQR, IX:4 (Oct., 1935). 173. 38. Friesen, op. cit., p. 189. 39. Cf. Clarence R. Hiebert, "Ethical Emphases of the Mennonite Brethren Church in North America" (Unpublished M.A. thesis, Phillips Univ., 1959). Hiebert's comprehensive study of M.B. ethics shows that the spirit