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History of The
Anabaptist Vision
By Albert N. Keim
Notes:
1.
Minutes of the Fifty-Fifth Consecutive Meeting of the American
Society of Church History, December 28-29,1943, Church History
(March, 1944), 56-69. 
2.
Information on these events came from correspondence between
H.S Bender and E.R.Hardy, Jr., Box 17; Matthew Spinka, Box 22;
Thomas C. Pears, Jr., Box 11; and Ernst Correll, Box 15; Harold
S. Bender Collection. Archives
of the Mennonite Church (AMC). 
3.
H.S. Bender to E.R.Hardy, Jr., December 16, 1943, Box 17, Harold
S. Bender Collection, AMC. 
4.
Leonard Gross, "Conversations with Elizabeth Bender,"
Mennonite Historical Bulletin, July, 1986, p. 6. 
5.
Stanley Shenk journal, entry for December 30, 1991, Goshen, Indiana,
AMC. 
6.
H.S.Bender, "The Anabaptist Vision," Church History
(March, 1943), 9. 
7.
Ibid., 13. 
8.
Ibid., 14. 
9.
Ibid., 18. 
10.
Ibid., 21. 
11.
Ibid:, 24. 
12.
H.S. Bender to Ernst Correll, April 21, 1944, Box 15, Harold
S. Bender Collection, AMC. 
13
Elizabeth Horsch Bender, "The Portrayal of the Swiss Anabaptists
in Gottfried Keller's Ursala, Mennonite Quarterly Review
Guly, 1943), 137. 
14.
See Hershberger (Scottdale: Herald Press, 1944), 87, 201,301,305,
307, 311. 
15.
See Horsch, Mennonites In Europe (Scottdale: Herald Press,
1942), 325,293, 298, 297, 318. 
16.
See Horsch, Mennonite Quarterly Review, January, 1938),
7; 2 July, 1932), 190; 2 July, 1934), 135. 
17.
Robert Friedmann, " Anabaptism and Pietism, II," Mennonite
Quarterly Review, July, 1940), 157. 
18.
Robert Friedmann, "Conception of the Anabaptists,"
Church History (December, 1940), 341-364. 
19.
Roland Bainton, "The Left Wing of the Reformation,"
Journal of Religion (1941) 124-134. 
20.
Robert Friedmann, "The Anabaptist Genius and Its Influence
on Mennonites Today," Proceedings
of the First Conference on Mennonite Cultural Problems, Winona
Lake, Indiana (August 7-8,1942), 20-25. 
21.
Kenneth Davis, "Vision and Revision In Anabaptist Historiography:
Perceptual Tensions In a Broadening Synthesis Or Alien Idealization?,
Mennonite Quarterly Review, July, 1979), 200-208. 
22.
J. Denny Weaver, "The Anabaptist Vision: From Recovery to
Reform," Mennonite Life (September, 1982), 14-16.

23.
The author has collected some 30 articles and books which in
one way or another critically analyze The Anabaptist Vision thesis.

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