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title:Building Communities of Compassion : Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice
author:Swartley, Willard M.
publisher:Herald Press
isbn10 | asin:0836190947
print isbn13:9780836190946
ebook isbn13:9780585262567
language:English
subjectMennonites--Charities, Mennonites--Doctrines.
publication date:1998
lcc:BX8128.W4B85 1998eb
ddc:289.7
subject:Mennonites--Charities, Mennonites--Doctrines.
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Building Communities of Compassion
Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice
Edited by Willard M. Swartley
and Donald B. Kraybill
Foreword by J. Winfield Fretz
Page 4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Building - photo 2
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Building communities of compassion: Mennonite mutual aid in theory and
practice / edited by Willard M. Swartley and Donald B. Kraybill.
p. cm.
"A Pandora Press U.S. book"
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8361-9094-7 (alk. paper)
1. MennonitesCharities. 2. MennonitesDoctrines.
I. Swartley, Willard M., 1936 . II. Kraybill, Donald B.
BX8128.W4B85 1998
289.7dc21 98-16375
CIP
Picture 3Picture 4
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and unless otherwise indicated are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. NIV, The Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society, Zondervan Bible Publishers; RSV, The Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
The diagrams on pages 25 and 26 of this book are used with the permission of the Editrice Pontifico Istituto, and are taken from George Panikulam, Koinonia in the New Testament: A Dynamic Expression of the Christian Life, copyright 1979, Biblical Institute Press, Rome, pp. 7, 39.
BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF COMPASSION
Copyright 1998 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683
Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press,
Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 98-16375
International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9094-7
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Michael A. King and Nel R. King, Pandora Press U.S., in
consultation with Jim Butti, Herald Press
Cover design by Jim Butti
07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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To J. Winfield Fretz
Tireless champion of mutual aid
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ABBREVIATIONS
AMC
Archives of the Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.)
ANRW
Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen[rmischen] Welt, ed. H. Temporini and W. Haase
CMP
Church Member Profile
Fond
Archive term: records of an individual, family, or corporate body
GC
General Conference Mennonite Church
JPS
Jewish Publication Society
JSNTSS
Journal of the Study of the New Testament supplement series
MC
Mennonite Church
MCC
Mennonite Central Committee
MDS
Mennonite Disaster Service
MMA
Mennonite Mutual Aid
MAO
Mennonite Archives of Ontario
PA
Particular Archive
TA
Tuferakten
STAZ
Staatsarchiv Zurich

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CONTENTS
Foreword
by J. Winfield Fretz
9
Acknowledgments
11
Introduction
13
Part One: Biblical Foundations

Chapter 1
Mutual Aid Based in Jesus and Early Christianity
by Willard M. Swartley

21
Chapter 2
Nehemiah: An Old Testament Model
by Wilma Ann Bailey
40

Part Two: Theological and Ethical Perspectives
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