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Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Through Much Tribulation

By: Leonard G. Friesen

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Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Through Much Tribulation

By: Leonard G. Friesen

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.

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University of Toronto Press

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148750568X

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Transcendent Love

Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic

By: Leonard G. Friesen

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Transcendent Love

Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic

By: Leonard G. Friesen

In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant to today's ethical debates. Friesen contends that the Russian ethical voice, in particular Dostoevsky's voice, deserves careful consideration in an increasingly global discussion of moral philosophy and the ethical life. Friesen challenges the view that contemporary liberalism provides a religiously neutral foundation for a global ethic. He argues instead that Dostoevsky has much to offer when it comes to the search for a global ethic, an ethic that for Dostoevsky was necessarily grounded in a Christian concept of an active, extravagant, and transcendent love. Friesen also investigates Dostoevsky's response to those who claimed that contemporary European trends, most evident in the rising secularization of nineteenth-century society, provided a more viable foundation for a global ethic than one grounded in the One, whom Doestoevsky called simply "the Russian Christ." Throughout, Friesen captures a sense of the depth and sheer loveliness of Dostoevsky's canon.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268079854

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9780268079857

They Sought a Country

Mennonite Colonization in Mexico

By: Harry Leonard Sawatzky

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They Sought a Country

Mennonite Colonization in Mexico

By: Harry Leonard Sawatzky

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

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Univ of California Press

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0520338421

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9780520338425

Transcendent Love

Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic

By: Leonard G. Friesen

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Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic

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Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Transcendent Love

Transcendent Love

They Sought a Country

They Sought a Country

Transcendent Love

Transcendent Love

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