{"product_id":"peace-progress-and-the-professor-the-mennonite-history-of-c-henry-smith-9780836199628","title":"Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be Mennonite in the modern world? And what is the witness of a peace church that is always at risk of splintering? C. Henry Smith--son of an Amish family, erudite historian, urbane bank president, and pioneer of Mennonite scholarship--sought answers to these questions in the middle of the 20th century, and his answers reverberate through the church to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this engaging narrative biography, historian Perry Bush chronicles Smith's childhood in an Illinois farming community, his youthful turn toward intellectual inquiry, and his confidence that Anabaptist faith and life offer gifts to the wider world. By recounting the story of one of the foremost Mennonite intellectuals, Bush surveys the storied terrain of 20th-century Mennonite identity in its selective borrowing from wider culture and its tentative embrace of progressive reforms and higher education, and growing conviction that Anabaptism served as a taproot of Western civilization. Bush argues that Smith's body of historical writing furnished a new generation of Mennonites with both an understanding of their shared past and the tools to navigate an ever-shifting present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 49 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Perry Bush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Herald Press (VA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780836199628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBush, Perry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePerry Bush\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Bluffton (Ohio) University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took On Big Oil and Won\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Kobzar: Bluffton College and Mennonite Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e. He and his wife, Elysia, live in Bluffton, where they are members of First Mennonite Church. They are parents of two daughters and a son.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herald Press (VA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44782617297011,"sku":"9780836199628","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_554e3f68-2424-47f9-beb0-215c4bd8fcdf.jpg?v=1776172544","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/peace-progress-and-the-professor-the-mennonite-history-of-c-henry-smith-9780836199628","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}