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[Older Inventory below, 2005]
Inventory
of
John H.
Yoder (1927-1997) Collection
Papers, 1947-1997; Boxes #01-241
Hist. Mss. 1-48
OUR LAMB
IS VICTORIOUS
311 pages
10 August 2005
Archives-Goshen
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Scope and Content
…………………………………………………….………….page 2
Biographical
Sketch…………..……………………………………….…………..page 3
Administrative
Information...…………………………………………………..…..page 5
Box
Listing……………………...……………………………………………….....page 6
Series
Listing…………………....…………………………………………….…...pages 7-16
Inventory
Section 1. Boxes 01-03:
Introduction, Bibliography,
Unpublished
Writings, 1947-97……..……................….......…...pages 17-22
Section
2. Boxes 1-22:
Chronological Listing of Papers,
1947-86…..…pages 23-30
Papers deposited
1972-1989
Section
3. Boxes 23-91: Box /
File Listing for Papers,
1947-1997…..…pages 31-141
Papers deposited 1990-2000
Section
4. Boxes 92-224:
Preliminary Inventory Listings,
1947-1997.....pages 142-311
Papers deposited 2000-2005
John H. Yoder was a theologian, a prophetic champion of Christian
pacifism, and an advocate from an Anabaptist-Mennonite theological
perspective. He was known for his work in biblical scholarship, peace
and historical theology, Christian social ethics, and ecumenical and
inter-faith dialogue. His papers reflect his thinking and his
involvements. He resided in Elkhart, Indiana, and was a member of
Prairie Street Mennonite Church.
The John Howard Yoder
collection contains written documentation, as well as some photographs,
audio-tapes and artifacts from 1947 when Yoder was a student at Goshen
College, Goshen, Indiana, to his death in 1997 at a time when he was
still very actively involved as a professor in the Department of
Theology at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.
The collection provides a comprehensive view of Yoder’s academic career
and life, both from his own point of view and those of his colleagues
and associates. It includes papers that Yoder wrote, subjects he was
interested in, and materials he collected as a result of his
involvement in various committees and conferences. Often files tend to
reflect Yoder’s interest in how a particular subject was connected with
peace.
The collection includes many of Yoder’s unpublished writings, often
including preliminary drafts and often written in the guise of memos
from the various academic institutions where he worked. Yoder’s
correspondence does make up a significant part of the
collection—letters and memos surrounding conferences, academic or
travel requests as well as personal correspondence. Yoder was also
interested in a broad range of topics. For example, there is a section
on worship materials—including many hymns, responsive readings,
prayers, and plans for worship. There is also a significant amount of
teaching materials and course outlines as well.
Yoder was a "keeper". It seems that as Yoder thought about certain
subjects, like litigation or race relations, he would start placing a
wide variety of articles, clippings and papers on that subject, often
prompted in response to an article he saw on the subject, or in
response to a person or committee working with that subject. As he
became involved in certain committees, like the Peace and Social
Concerns Committee of Mennonite Central Committee during the 1960s and
1970s, he would retain all the minutes he received, as well as
attachments, and correspondence he wrote in connection with that
committee. Some of his work with this committee then resulted in the
book Politics of Jesus.
When
he attended a conference, his file would include the conference packet,
the program materials, his correspondence, and Yoder’s handwritten
notes. In other words, each file often contains a variety of materials
- some files are thick, other files only contain 2-3 pieces of
correspondence which shows he did not often have enough time to file on
a regular basis.
The
collection is thus not neatly divided into types of materials, like
writings, correspondence, reports, and then organized alphabetically
within each section. Rather the names of files shows that any one
particular file can be filed by subject matter, by the name of the
conference attended, by the name of the organization or committee in
which Yoder was involved, or by a chronological file that Yoder
maintained for some sections of files. Rather than try and reorganize
the vast amount of materials into these kinds of sections, it was
decided to do an annotated inventory listing of each file. The order of
the files were retained as they came into the archives. Some attempt
has then been made to organize these papers through the use of the
computer (i.e. on paper only, and not physically reorganizing the
files). Series headings were sorted alphabetically in and placed under
a Series Listing. Section 1 was organized into a chronological listing,
to complement the bibliography listing of Yoder’s writings.
John H. Yoder
was a theologian, a prophetic champion of Christian pacifism, and an
advocate for an Anabaptist-Mennonite theological perspective. He
was known for his work in biblical scholarship, peace and historical
theology, Christian social ethics and ecumenical and inter-faith
dialogue. He resided in Elkhart, Indiana, and was a member of Prairie
Street Mennonite Church.
1927 Born, December 29,
Smithville, Ohio, to Howard C. and Ethel (Good) Yoder, reared
at Oak Grove Mennonite Church
1947 B. A., Goshen College,
completed in just two years. Was profoundly influenced
by Harold S. Bender during this time
1948 Traveled from eastern
Iowa to Pennsylvania on a "peace team," speaking
about peacemaking in various Mennonite churches and camps
1949 Published his first
essay, “Caesar and the Meidung,” Mennonite
Quarterly Review,
April 1949, on the legal status of church discipline among the Old
Order Amish
1949 Went to France to do
voluntary service of youth work and mediation, and postwar aid
and relief under Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Later also
helped with MCC
relief work in Algeria
1952 Married Anne Marie Guth,
July 12, in France. Had seven children between 1953
and 1969, six of whom survived infancy
1952 Participation in the
Concern group, who published the pamphlet series Concern
from 1954-1971
1954-57 Doctoral Studies, Theological Faculty of
Basel, Switzerland, where he was a
student of Karl Barth. Thesis was “Die Gespraeche zwischen
Taeufern under
Reformatoren”
(The Discussion between Anabaptists and Reformers). During this
time Yoder also
oversaw the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities relief program
that had begun
in Algeria in response to the 1954 earthquake
1955 Participated in the
Puidoux Theological Conference, August 15-17, which met at
Puidoux (near
Lausanne), Switzerland, to discuss "The Lordship of Christ over Church
and
State." Included dialogue between Lutheran and Reformed
Theologians and the
Historic Peace
Churches and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. Yoder
gave a paper,
"The Theological Basis of the Christian Witness to the State."
This led
to Yoder
attending subsequent conferences, broadening his involvement in
ecumenical
conversations
about pacifism.
1957 Upon return, worked for
one year at the "J. S. Yoder and Son" greenhouses in
Wooster, Ohio
1958 Was one of the resource
people to speak on Mennonite theology to the faculty of the
three Mennonite
Church colleges, Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
Goshen College,
Goshen, Indiana, and Hesston College, Hesston, Kansas. This was
the first time
he addressed himself to the question of Christ and culture
1958 Began teaching at Goshen
College Biblical Seminary, Goshen, Indiana, part of the
newly created
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries
1959-65 Administrative Assistant to J. D. Graber in
Overseas Missions, at Mennonite Board of
Missions,
Elkhart, Indiana, until 1965
1960-65 Part-time instructor at the Mennonite
Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, during which he
was often
called on to be the faculty spokesperson for inter-seminary meetings
1960 Beginning of a period of
nine years during which he worked in several official roles with
the National
Council of Churches. Beginning in 1963 he held various capacities
with
the World
Council of Churches for over 20 years, including being a member of the
study commission
on the Theology of Mission, a member of the Faith and Order
Colloquium, an
adjunct staff member of the Commission on World Missions and
Evangelism, and
a consultation speaker for the Commission on Justice, Peace, and
the Integrity of
Creation
1961-93 Member of the Mennonite Quarterly Review
Editorial Board
1962 Th. D. University of
Basel, Switzerland
1965-77 Full-time Professor of Theology at Goshen
Biblical Seminary, Goshen, Indiana
(1965-68), and
Elkhart, Indiana (1968-77)
1965-73 Associate Director of the Institute of
Mennonite Studies
1965-86 On the board of directors of the Mennonite
Historical Society
1967 Taught his first course
at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Yoder
became a
full-time professor for their Department of Theology in 1977, with
Goshen
Biblical
Seminary buying a portion of his time until 1984. Yoder continued
teaching at
Notre Dame until
his death
1970 President of Goshen
Biblical Seminary until 1973
1970 Co-chair of the special
interest group on war, religion and society for the Society of
Christian Ethics
until 1992; also served as president of the Society from 1987-1988
1970-71 Guest Professor of Theology at the Christian
Seminary in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
where John
Litwiller served as dean. During this time he also lectured at the
Mennonite
Seminary at Montevideo, Uruguay.
1971 Nevertheless and The Original Revolution published
1972 The Politics of Jesus, Vicit Agnus
Noster (Our Lamb is Victorious) published by
William B.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Second Edition, 1994.
Became
Yoder's landmark
statement on Christian pacifism as based on the New Testament.
1973 Was ordained at Oak
Grove Mennonite Church, Smithville, Ohio, by the Ohio District
Conference of
the Mennonite Church
1975-76 Served at the Ecumenical Institute-Tantur, in
Jerusalem
1977-84 Part-time Professor of Theology at Goshen
Biblical Seminary
1977-97 Professor of Theology at the University of
Notre Dame
1983 Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and
Revolution published
1984 The Priestly Kingdom published
1986 Joan B. Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies founded at Notre Dame. Yoder
was a founding
member and named a fellow of the institute
1992-96 Ministerial credentials suspended by the
Indiana-Michigan Conference for sexual
misconduct. Suspension was based on a report by a task force
appointed by Yoder's
home
congregation, Prairie Street Mennonite Church, Elkhart, IN.
Yoder's discipline
also included
therapy and restitution
1994 The Royal Priesthood published
1997 For the Nations published
1997 Died, December 30, South
Bend, Indiana
Over the years
Yoder also conducted lecture tours in approximately twenty countries,
and participated in hundreds of conferences (for more details, see
Calendar Files in the collection). He also taught intensive
courses at New College, Berkeley, California; Regent College,
Vancouver, B.C.; and Asia Theological Seminary, Manila; and had
speaking engagements all over the United States, in a variety of
venues. Over the course of his life, Yoder published 17 books, as well
as hundreds of articles and hundreds of unpublished papers.
Sources for biography:
Obituary, The Goshen News
(January 2, 1998, Page A-6); “In Memorial, John Howard Yoder,
1927-1997”, by J. R. Burkholder, Mennonite
Quarterly Review, (April 1998, page 116); "John H. Yoder,
Ecumenical Neo-Anabaptist: A Biographical Sketch," by Mark Thiessen
Nation, from The Wisdom of
the Cross, (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, Michigan,
1999), pp. 1-23, and Obituary, The New York Times (January 7,
1998, Page A-16); "Conference suspends theologian's credentials," Gospel Herald, July 14, 1992, page
11; "Thinker with a vast impact," by Robert Rhodes, The Mennonite, April 2, 2002, page
19; Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference Church Life Commission,
Newspaper articles 1992, Collection II-5-13, Box 3.
Administrative
Information
The papers in
boxes 1-22 were deposited in the Archives by John H. Yoder, Elkhart,
Indiana, in 1953 and 1966, and on a regular basis from 1971-1989.
The papers in boxes 23-36 were deposited in the Archives by John H.
Yoder, Elkhart, Indiana, from 1989-1997. After his death,
additional boxes 37-176 were deposited by his wife Annie Yoder, Goshen,
Indiana, from 1998-2002. Some unpublished writings of Yoder were
deposited by Mark Thiessen Nation in 2002, and placed in boxes 01-03.
Elisabeth Yoder, Yoder's daughter, deposited boxes 177-200 in August
2003 and boxes 201-216 in August 2004.
The records of the Believers’ Church
Conferences, 1964-94, were deposited into the archives by Yoder in
1994-95. Yoder was a co-convenor, along with Donald Durnbaugh. This
organization is cataloged as a separate collection; XI-15, see
inventory.
By September 29, 1994, an
inventory of files found in boxes 1-22 (Green), 7 pages, had been
completed by Troy Osborne, Sharon L. Klingelsmith, Marilyn H. Voran and
Bryan L. Kehr. Materials were transferred to acid-free folders
and titles were given to each folder.
A annotated inventory listing of the
boxes 1-22, and seven other selected boxes was begun in 2001 to provide
better access to the collection. This list was completed by
February 2002, and was sorted chronologically to complement the
published bibliographies of the books and articles written by
Yoder. This 29 page inventory was made available at the
Believer’s Church Conference, March 7-9, 2002, “Assessing the
Theological Legacy of John Howard Yoder,” Center for Continuing
Education, McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame. The inventory
was prepared by Dennis Stoesz, archivist, with assistance from
Elisabeth Yoder, Yoder’s daughter, as well as other persons working on
various parts of the collection since 1995: Kent Holsopple, John E.
Sharp, Rhoda Stoesz, Cathy Hochstetler, Nelda Nussbaum, Stephanie
Short, and Mandie Schmidt.
A $10,000 grant
from the Showalter Foundation received in 2002 enabled this inventory
to be continued, and additional monies in 2003-04 from a private donor
allowed it to continue through 2004. By June 10, 2002, a 68 page
inventory of boxes 1-129, which included a preliminary listing of boxes
1-129, and additional detailed lists for boxes 23-25, 30, 81, 87-88,
107, 111, and 116, had been completed in preparation for the beginning
of the project funded by the grant.
By January 14, 2003, the inventory
had reached 148 pages, completed by Laura E. Yoder (June 2002 – January
2003) and Monica Zimmerman (June – August 2002). Detailed lists
were added for boxes 01-03, 26-39, 59, 61, 66, 83-85, an editing job
was completed for the entire list, preliminary listings for boxes
130-176 were added to the inventory, and the first series listing was
included near the beginning of the collection. Elisabeth Yoder
had done the initial preparation and lists of the files for boxes
130-176 before the files were transferred to the archives in Summer
2002.
By July 25, 2003, a detailed
annotated listing for 96 boxes had been completed (Boxes 01-90, 107,
111 and 116), 176 pages, by Tim Nafziger (January – April 2003) and
Mary Leigh (January 2003 – September 2004). The series listing
was updated and alphabetized, boxes 01-90 were checked against the
inventory listing and the entire list was edited. Preliminary
inventory listings for Boxes 177-200 were added to the inventory as
prepared by Elisabeth Yoder when the materials were transferred to the
archives, August 2003. By July 15, 2004, a detailed annotated
listing for additional boxes 91, 113, 145, and 200 had been completed
by Anna Beth Keim (October – November 2003) and Mary Leigh. The
Biographical Sketch, Scope and Content, and Series listing were updated
and edited by Mary Leigh February 2004. Preliminary inventory
listings for Boxes 201-216 were
added to the inventory as prepared by Elisabeth Yoder when the
materials were transferred to the archives, August 2004.
Inventory completed by Mary Leigh, and posted on web, Auguust 27,
2004. Update August 10, 2005, by Dennis Stoesz, Archivist.
Box Listing
(Shelf list of archival boxes in collection)
Section 1. Boxes 01-03: Introduction, Bibliography and Unpublished
Writings, 1947-1997.
Boxes 01-03 (Green).
Section 2. Boxes 1-22: Chronological Listing, 1947-1986
Boxes 1-18 (Green), 19 (Long Green),
20-22 (Green).
Section 3. Boxes 23-91: Box/File Listing, 1947-1997
Boxes 23-27 (Large), 28 (Green),
29-55 (Large), 56 (Oversize), 57-65, 66a, 66b, 67-70, 71a
(Large), 71b (Gray), 71c (Gray),
72-74, 75A, 75B, 76-91 (Large).
Section 4. Boxes 92-216: Preliminary Inventory Listing, 1947-1997
Boxes 92-130 (Large), 131 (Green),
132-143 (Large), 144 (Oversize), 145-175 (Large), 176
(Oversize), 177-216 (Large).
( These
headings are for the subdivisions identified by Yoder in his
files. The names of many individual files, however, are not
included within the series headings because they have not been filed
within a particular series heading, and are only classified as
"Assorted Materials.")
Series
titles / Box and File
in which Materials are Found - for example (2/2)
Africa, see also Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section,
Africa, 1961-1965; South
Africa; Southern African Churches
Leadership Assembly (SACLA)
Agencies (files from IIPS office), 1955-1998, boxes 197-198
Agencies, Europe, 1952-1997, box 199
Ahisma/Chapters, 1922-1995, box 188
Amish man Andrew Yoder, Wooster lawsuit by, 1947-49, (2/2) – (2/7),
(22/1)
Amish Religious Freedom, National Committee for, 1956-1972, (27/18)
Anabaptism, 1947-1997, box 114
Anabaptist Drafting, 1947-1996, box 114
Anabaptist Theology, 1948-1984, box 114
Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality, 1952-1970, (23/9)
Anabaptist, Notes, Topically Classified, 1957-1960, box 64
Anabaptist/Mennonite History, 1935, 1948-1996, box 115
Anabaptist/Mennonite History, 1947-1991, (116/1)-(116/33)
Anny Dyck, 1970-1976, (29/1)
Arnold, Eberhard (Hutterian Society of Brothers), 1954-1984,
(91/7)-(91/13), see also Society of
Brothers
Asia, see also Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Asia,
1960-1964
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), 1960’s and 1970’s,
(29/20) – (29/32)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), 1967-1968, (34/51)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), 1970-1972, (33/23)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar,
1957-1968, (27/3)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar, 1968,
(27/9)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Employment, 1959-1974,
(59/6) – (59/10)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), see also Goshen College
and
Biblical Seminary,
1959-1970
Assorted Literature Materials, undated, (37/5) – (37/8)
Assorted Materials, 1917-1992, (34/17) – (34/43)
Assorted Materials, 1927-1997, (66A/1) – (66A/19)
Assorted Materials, 1940’s-1980’s, (33/4) – (33/20)
Assorted Materials, 1948-1949, (84/34)-(84/35)
Assorted Materials, 1949-93, box 23
Assorted Materials, 1950-1970, (77/1) - (77/3)
Assorted Materials, 1950-1995, (36/10) – (36/64)
Assorted Materials, 1950's-1990's, (82/1)
Assorted Materials, 1952-1974, box 86
Assorted Materials, 1952-1983, (85/23)-(85/37)
Assorted Materials, 1957-1986, boxes 97-98
Assorted Materials, 1957-1988, box 109
Assorted Materials, 1957-1997 (mostly 1993-1997), (71A/9) - (71A/69)
Assorted Materials, 1958-1973, (29/2) – (29/9)
Assorted Materials, 1958-1974, (77/28) - (77/39)
Assorted Materials, 1958-1996, (59/19) – (59/37)
Assorted Materials, 1960’s-1997, boxes 71B, 71C, 72-73
Assorted Materials, 1960-1980, box 78
Assorted Materials, 1960-1984, box 24
Assorted Materials, 1960-1989, (36/1) – (36/5)
Assorted Materials, 1960-1991, (37/9) – (37/26)
Assorted Materials, 1961-1977, (83/1)-(83/8)
Assorted Materials, 1963-1997, box 79
Assorted Materials, 1964-1993, (30/1) – (30/17)
Assorted Materials, 1964-1994, (32/33) – (32/51)
Assorted Materials, 1966-1985, (89/10)-(89/12)
Assorted Materials, 1967-1987, (26/18) – (26/21)
Assorted Materials, 1967-1993, box 28
Assorted Materials, 1968-1981, (91/24)-(91/25)
Assorted Materials, 1968-1993, (30/19) – (30/36)
Assorted Materials, 1971-1997, (80/1) - (80/5)
Assorted Materials, 1976-1996, box 110
Assorted Materials, 1979, box 139
Assorted Materials, 1987-1996, boxes 105-106
Assorted Materials, box 130
Assorted Materials, box 171
Assorted Readings, box 137
Babylon / Dan Smith, 1975-1996, box 211
Barth, Karl, 1951-1997, box 184
Believer’s Church, 1967-1994, (34/8) – (34/11)
Bethany Seminary, Fall 1982, (91/19)-(91/21)
Biblical Studies, 1969-1983, (90/5)-(90/6), see also Psalm Studies
Biblical Theology, 1956-1995, box 215
Bibliography (JHY), Publishing Files, 1948-1995, box 191
Bibliography, see also Introduction and Bibliography
Bishops, box 121
Body Politics / Church, Course Files included, 1939-1997, boxes 192-193
Bonhoeffer, 1960-1996, box 184
Calendar File, 1965-1973, (77/4) - (77/27)
Calendar File, 1972-1974, box 88
Calendar File, 1974-1978, box 87
Calendar File, 1974-1997, box 138
Calendar File, 1978-1979, box 139
Calendar File, 1980, box 140
Calendar File, 1981-1982, box 141
Calendar File, 1983, box 142
Calendar File, 1984-1985, box 143
Calendar File, 1986-1987, box 168
Calendar File, 1987-1988, box 169
Calendar File, 1988-1990, box 170
Calendar File, 1990, box 177
Calendar File, 1991, box 178
Calendar File, 1992-1993, box 179
Calendar File, 1994-1996, box 180
Calendar File, box 96
Capital Punishment, 1959, (84/13)-(84/23), see also Death Penalty
Central America/Peace Actions/Sanctuary, 1970's-1990's, box 124
Chaplains, 1945-1990, box 215
Chapters/Ahisma, 1922-1995, box 188
Charismatic Movement, 1958-1986, box 113
Charitable Foundation Files, Yoder, 1986-1997, box 193
Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament, Conference, 1966,
(74/1)-(74/1)
Christian Identity in Ecumenical Perspective, 1990-1991, (37/1) – (37/4)
Christian Peacemaker Teams, 1974-1994, (66A/20) – (66A/22)
Christology, 1964-1990, box 117
Christopher Columbus (1492), (70/6) – (70/8)
Church Schools, Issue of State Support to, 1965, (27/1)
Church/State Files, War, Peace, Nonresistance, and Revolution,
1954-1984 (mostly 1973-1984),
(107/1)-(107/43)
Churches and World Affairs, 1964-1993, (38/2) – (38/4b)
Civil Religion, box 122
Class Notes, 1946-1948, (84/27)-(84/33)
Clippings and Articles, Topically Classified, 1971-1997, box 69
Clippings, Miscellaneous, 1969-1997, (62/1) – (62/2)
Clippings, Miscellaneous, 1969-1997, box 63
Clippings, Miscellaneous, 1969-1997, box 67 – 68
Clippings, Notes, and Essays, Miscellaneous, 1947-1997, boxes 40 – 58
Concern Correspondence, and History, 1952-71, (7/3) – (7/7), (8/2),
(11/1) – (11/3), (16/17),
(17/13), (20/4)
Conrad Grebel College, 1959-1969, (26/2), (26/3)
Conscientious Objection, see also Pamphlets, Pacifism/Conscientious
Objection; Mennonite
Central Committee, Peace Section:
Conscientious Objection
Conservative Old Mennonites, Relations with, 1960-70, (3/4) – (3/10)
Contemporary Theology, Notes and Lectures, 1948-1970, (84/1)-(84/12)
Contemporary Theology, see also Course Files, 1946-1965
Cornelius J. Dyck, 1960-1968, (29/13) – (29/19)
Corrections, box 122
Correspondence, 1948-1997, box 205
Correspondence, 1949-1997, box 208
Correspondence, 1951-1997, box 206
Correspondence, 1957-1997, box 207
Correspondence, 1975-1997, box 202
Correspondence, undated, box 204
Course Files, 1946-1965, (83/16)-(83/29)
Course Files, 1982-1996, boxes 99-102
Course Files, Body Politics / Church, 1939-1997, boxes 192-193
Course Files, Notre Dame University: Papers, Articles, Booklets, and
Dockets related to courses
taught, 1978-1997, box (71A/1) - (71A/5)
Course Files, Nuclear Dilemma, 1983-1987, box 187
Course Files, Peace, 1960-1979, box 95
Course Files, Primarily Systematic Theology, 1958-1974, box 112
Course Files, Radical Reformation, 1984-1996, box 187
Course Files, Voices of Nonviolence, 1977-1997, box 187
Course Files, War, Peace, and Nonresistance, 1937-1997, box 188
Course Files, War, Peace, and Nonresistance, box 125
Course Files, War/Law/Ethics, 1978-1985, box 187
Course Files, War/Peace/Revolution, 1968-1997, box 187
Course Files, Women, 1970-1986, box 200
Criticisms of MCC by Yoder, 1951-58, (8/1) – (8/10)
Death Penalty, 1950's-1980's, box 120
Death Penalty, 1958-1991, (38/5)
Death Penalty, box 121
Death Penalty, see also Capital Punishment
Defense and Disarmament, Christian Approaches to, Conference, 1966,
(74/1) - (74/2)
Dyck, Anny, 1970-1976, (29/1)
Dyck, Cornelius J., 1960-1968, (29/13) – (29/19)
Ecumenical Perspective and Christian Identity (David Wayne Layman),
1990-1991, (37/1) – (37/4)
Ecumenical, see also Urban; Unity; Christian Identity in Ecumenical
Perspective
Education, 1961-1970, (26/4) – (26/10)
Education, see also Philosophy of Education Study Committee
Employment Records, Assorted, 1960-1969, (59/15) – (59/18)
Employment, see also Goshen College, Employment; Associated Mennonite
Biblical
Seminaries, Employment; Notre Dame,
Employment
Ethics, 1938-1997, boxes 186-187, see also Investment Ethics; Social
Ethics
Europe, Summer 1979, box 139
Europe, Summer 1983, box 142
European Missions, 1959-1969, (116/75) - (116/80)
Evangelicals in Social Action Peace Witness Seminar, 1955-1969,
(83/9)-(83/15)
Evangelism, Department of, National Council of Churches (NCC),
1963-1966, (89/1)-(89/9)
Faith and Order Commission, National Council of Churches, box 92
Fellowship of Reconciliation, International, 1952, (34/6) – (34/7)
Feminism, 1954-1994, (bulk 1968-85), box 200
Files, 3100 Benham, boxes 160-163, 165-167
Files, Notre Dame University, boxes 146-159, 164, see also Notre Dame
For Nations, Publishing Files, 1967-1997, box 189
French Materials, 1951-1956, (84/24)-(84/26)
Germany, see also Kirchentag, Germany
Girard, Rene, 1948-1997, box 213
Gordon Kauffman, 1940-1992, box 212
Goshen College and Biblical Seminary, 1959-1970, (33/1) – (33/3), see
also Associated
Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Goshen College, 1958-1965, (29/33)
Goshen College, Chapel Evaluation Committee, 1967, (23/26)
Goshen College, Employment, 1957-1972, (59/3) – (59/5)
Goss - Mayr, 1955-1995, box 188
Graduate Studies in Europe, 1951-1957, (81/14)-(81/23)
Gulf War, (70/1) – (70/5)
Gustafson, James M, 1982-1988, box 212
Hauerwas, Stanley, 1973-1997, box 212
Healthcare, 1982, (91/22)-(91/23)
Hiroshima, 1946-1997, box 123
Historic Peace Churches, box 183
Holiness, 1973, box 92
Holocaust, 1958-1994, box 132
Homosexuality, 1972-1996, box 215
Hubmaier, Publishing Files, 1966-1993, box 189
Human Rights, 1977-1979, box 94
Hunger/Poverty, 1963-1981, box 215
Hutterian Society of Brothers (Arnold), 1954-1984, (91/7)-(91/13), see
also Society of Brothers
Hymns and Prayers, 1960's-1983, (90/20)-(90/23), see also Worship
Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, 1959, 1963-1966, 1976-1980,
(26/1)
Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1966-74, (23/25)
Institute of Mennonite Studies, box 96
Institute of Mennonite Studies / Mennonite Historical Library,
1965-1988, box 216
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1957-72, (23/10) – (23/14)
International Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1952, (34/6) – (34/7)
Internet, Publishing Files, 1997, box 189
Inter-relation of American Mennonites with Mennonites in Europe,
1950-67, (16/6) – (16/11)
Introduction and Bibliography, box 01
Investment Ethics, 1959-1988, box 193
Israel, 1960-1967, (59/1) – (59/2)
Judaica drawer, 1949-1996, box 133
Judaica, Unclassified, box 134
Judaism, 1976-1985, box 133
Judaism-Christian Schism, 1961-1996, box 201
Just War Theory, boxes 118-119
Karl Barth, 1951-1997, box 184
Kirchentag, Germany, 1955-1957, (81/7)-(81/10)
Lamb's War, The, Publication Preparation, 1969-1997 box 201
Latin America, 1966-1994, (32/1) – (32/32)
Lawyers, 1977-1986, box 216
Layman, David Wayne, 1990-1991, (37/1) – (37/4)
Lecture Tapes, 1965-1970, boxes 75A, 75B
Lecture Tapes, 1966-1972, (74/28) - (74/32)
Liberation, 1959-1986, box 216
Liberation, 1973-1990, box 113
Library File, (82/2)
Litigation, 1961-84, (23/8)
Lutherans, 1962-1993, box 213
Malone College Consultations, 1961-1969, (32/52) – (32/60)
Manchester College Peace Studies Institute, 1974-1993, (38/1)
McClendon, James, 1990-1994, box 212
Melbourne, box 140
Menno Simons Lectures, 1982, box 133
Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, Europe, 1959-1969,
(116/77)-(116/78)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Criticisms of, by Yoder, 1951-1958,
(8/1)-(8/10)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1959-60, 1963-70, box
25
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1960-1966, (27/11) –
(27/17)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1961, (32/61)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1965-1970, (33/21) –
(33/22)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1968-1995, (34/12) –
(34/16)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1969-1981, (30/18a) –
(30/18c)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1970-1994, box 35
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1977-1984,
(85/6)-(85/22)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1981, (71A/6) -
(71A/8)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1986-87, (29/10)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Africa, 1961-1965,
(27/16) – (27/17)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Asia, 1960-1964,
(27/15)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Executive Committee
on Issues
concerning MCC work in Vietnam, 1965-1969,
(27/4) – (27/8)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Minutes and Reports,
1961-1966, (27/11) –
(27/14)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section: Conscientious
Objection, 1942-1973,
(85/1)-(85/5)
Mennonite Church Committee on Peace and Social Concerns, 1963-1966,
(33/24) – (33/25)
Mennonite Church Schools, 1956-67, 1991, (5/1) – (5/2)
Mennonite Conference, Indiana-Michigan, 1959, 1963-1966, 1976-1980,
(26/1)
Mennonite Disaster Service, and Civil Defense, 1961, see also Mennonite
Central Committee,
Peace Section, 1961
Mennonite Graduate Student’s Fellowship, 1958-1970, (34/44) – (34/45)
Mennonite Historians, 1953-1994, (116/34)-(116/74), see also
Anabaptist/Mennonite History
Mennonite Historical Library / Institute of Mennonite Studies,
1965-1988, box 216
Mennonite Historical Society, 1962-1978, (29/11) – (29/12)
Mennonite Pamphlets, (39/1) – (39/47)
Mennonite Student Services Committee, 1962-1969, (33/26) – (33/27)
Mennonite Studies, Institute of, (23/25), box 96
Mennonite World Conference, 1978, 1984, (34/46) – (34/47b)
Mennonites in Europe, Inter-relation of American Mennonites with,
1950-67, (16/6) – (16/11)
Middle East, The, 1969-1973, (38/6) – (38/7)
Miller, Paul M., Papers, 1965-1995, (36/6) – (36/9)
Mission Theology, 1950-1997, box 182
Mission, 1952-1996, boxes 181-182
Missions in Europe, 1959-1969, (116/75)-(116/80)
Moltmann, Jurgen, 1951-1996, box 212
Montevideo Mennonite Seminary, 1966-1968, (34/48) – (34/50)
Music, 1942-1975, box 177
National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom, 1956-1972, (27/18)
National Council of Churches (NCC), Department of Evangelism,
1963-1966, (89/1)-(89/9)
National Council of Churches, Faith and Order Commission, box 92
Nations, Publishing Files, 1967-1997, box 189
Near East, 1972-1988, box 135
Near East, box 128
New Caledonia Church Division, 1958-64, (13/11) – (13/14), (14/2) –
(14/5)
Nonviolent Resistance, Cases of, 1958-1997, box 123
Notes and Items, Assorted, 1940’s-1990, box 64
Notes File, Partially Classified, 1946-1997, box 203
Notes File, Partially Classified, 1951-1997, box 204
Notes File, Partially Classified, 1979-1997, box 204
Notes File, Topically Classified, 1957-1960, box 62
Notes File, Topically Classified, 1957-1960, box 65
Notre Dame University, Files, boxes 146-159, 164
Notre Dame University: Papers, Articles, Booklets, and Dockets related
to courses taught,
1978-1997, box (71A/1) - (71A/5)
Notre Dame, Decio Office, Partially Classified Notes, 1951-1997, box 204
Notre Dame, Employment, 1967-1972, (59/11) – (59/14)
Notre Dame, Peace Institute, Partially Classified Office Notes,
1979-1997, box 204
Notre Dame, Topical Files (People), 1953-1997, boxes 210-211
Nuclear Dilemma, Course Files, 1983-1987, box 187
Nuclear Threat, box 121
Oak Grove Mennonite Church, 1947-1974, (26/11) – (26/14)
Original Revolution, The, Publishing Files, 1972-1990, box 189
Pacifism, see also Pamphlets, Pacifism/Conscientious Objection
Pamphlets and Journals, Miscellaneous, boxes 172-175
Pamphlets, 1941-1986, box 76
Pamphlets, Arab/Israeli Conflict, 1958-1984, (61A/1) – (61A/12)
Pamphlets, Mennonite, (39/1) – (39/47)
Pamphlets, Miscellaneous, (66A/23) – (66B/8)
Pamphlets, Pacifism/Conscientious Objection, 1944-1979, (61A/13) –
(61B/17)
Peace Actions/Sanctuary/Central America, 1970's-1990's, box 124
Peace and Social Concerns, Committee on, 1963-1966, (33/24)-(33/25)
Peace Course Files, 1960-1979, box 95
Peace in other churches, 1967-1993, box 214
Peace Institute, Partially Classified Office Notes, 1979-1997, box 204
Peace Section, see Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section
Peace Studies Institute, Manchester College, 1974-1993, (38/1)
Peace Witness Seminar, Evangelicals in Social Action, 1955-1969,
(83/9)-(83/15)
Peace Witness, box 122
Peace Witness, box 125
Peace, 1945-1997, box 214
Philosophy of Education Study Committee, 1967-1970, (27/10)
Photographs, 1950-1951, (34/1) – (34/5)
Poles, 1966-1991, box 123
Politics of Jesus, The, Publishing Files, 1952-1997, boxes 190-191
Poverty / Hunger, 1963-1981, box 215
Powers, 1966-1990, box 117
Prairie Street Mennonite Church, 1966-1976, (26/15) – (26/17)
Prayers and Hymns, 1960's-1983, (90/20)-(90/23), see also Worship
Priesthood, Publishing Files, 1955-1997 (mostly 1990's), box 191
Psalm Studies, 1967-1984, (90/7)-(90/19)
Publications, 1977-1996, box 108
Publishing Files, For Nations, 1967-1997, box 189
Publishing Files, Hubmaier, 1966-1993, box 189
Publishing Files, Internet, 1997, box 189
Publishing Files, JHY Bibliography, 1948-1995, box 191
Publishing Files, Priesthood, 1955-1997 (mostly 1990's), box 191
Publishing Files, The Original Revolution, 1972-1990, box 189
Publishing Files, The Politics of Jesus, 1952-1997, boxes 190-191
Publishing Files, To Hear the Word, 1946-1997, box 189
Publishing, box 125
Race, 1948, 1959-1970, (60/1) – (60/6)
Radical Reformation, Course Files, 1984-1996, box 187
Regent College, Vancouver, 1976-1982, (91/14)-(91/18)
Relations with Conservative Old Mennonites, 1960-70, (3/4) – (3/10)
Religion, Civil, box 122
Religious Liberty, 1977-1979, box 94
Restricted Materials (Identified by Yoder), 1972-1989, box 131
Schaeffer, Tom, 1975-1997, box 202
Seminaries, Other, 1963-1992, box 214
Singleness, Marriage, and Divorce, 1954-94, (bulk 1968-85), box 200
Smith, Dan / Babylon, 1975-1996, box 211
Social Action Peace Witness Seminar, Evangelicals in, 1955-1969,
(83/9)-(83/15)
Social Ethics, 1980-1989, boxes 98-99
Social Ethics, 1981-1997, box 187
Social Ethics, see also Ethics
Society of Brothers, box 129
Society of Brothers, see also Hutterian Society of Brothers
South Africa, 1974-1988, (80/6) - (80/7)
South Africa, 1975-1977, (81/1) - (81/6)
Southern African Churches Leadership Assembly (SACLA), 1979, box 139
State Support to Church Schools, Issue of, 1965, (27/1)
Study Commission of Church Organization (SCCO), 1936-1971, (27/2)
Systematic Theology (primarily), Course Files, 1958-1974, box 112
Systematic Theology, 1943-1997, box 185
Systematics, 1944-1997, boxes 184-185
Theology and Near East Crisis, (38/8) – (38/9)
Theology, see also Anabaptist Theology; Contemporary Theology; Mission
Theology; Systematic
Theology
To Hear the Word, Publishing Files, 1946-1997, box 189
Topical File, Lutherans, 1962-1993, box 213-214
Topical File, Tertium Study, 1965-1993, box 132
Topical Files (People), 1940-1997, boxes 212-213
Topical Files (People), 1953-1997, boxes 210-211
Topical Files, 1946-1997, box 203
Topical Files, 1958-1980, box 112
Topical Files, Biblical Theology, 1956-1995, box 215
Topical Files, box 117
Topical Files, Chaplains, 1945-1990, box 215
Topical Files, Homosexuality, 1972-1996, box 215
Topical Files, Institute of Mennonite Studies/Mennonite Historical
Library, 1965-1988, box 216
Topical Files, Lawyers, 1977-1986, box 216
Topical Files, Liberation, 1959-1986, box 216
Topical Files, Miscellaneous, boxes 126-127
Topical Files, Other Seminaries, 1963-1992, box 214
Topical Files, Peace in other churches, 1967-1993, box 214
Topical Files, Peace, 1945-1997, box 214
Topical Files, Poverty/Hunger, 1963-1981, box 215
Unity - Ecumenic Activities, 1947-1972, (111/1)-(111/34)
Unity, 1960-1984 (mostly 1970-1980), (74/3) - (74/27)
Urban, 1970-1972, (60/7) – (60/10)
Urquhart, 1842-1997, box 188
Verheyden’s Anabaptism in Flanders, 1956-60, (1/9), (19/2) – (19/3)
Vietnam, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, Executive
Committee on Issues
concerning MCC work in Vietnam, 1965-1969,
(27/4) – (27/8)
Voices of Nonviolence, Course Files, 1977-1997, box 187
War Tax Resistance, 1955-1990, box 31
War, Peace, and Nonresistance, Course Files and Collected Materials,
1937-1997, box 188
War, Peace, and Nonresistance, Course Files, box 125
War, Peace, and Revolution (Course) Fragments, (39/48) – (39/79)
War, Peace, and Revolution, 1960-1969, 1980-1982, (107/44)-(107/47)
War, Peace, Nonresistance, and Revolution, Church/State Files,
1954-1984 (mostly 1973-1984),
(107/1)-(107/43)
War/Law/Ethics, Course Files, 1978-1985, box 187
War/Peace/Revolution, Course Files, 1968-1997, box 187
Witness Centers, 1946-1997, boxes 194-196
Witness to State, Studies of, 1959-1970, box 96
Women, Collected Materials, 1970-1986, box 200
World Council of Churches (WCC), 1956-1985, (89/13)-(89/36)
World Council of Churches (WCC), 1960-1985, (91/1)-(91/6)
World Council of Churches (WCC), 1972-1990, (90/1)-(90/4)
World Council of Churches (WCC), box 183
World Council of Churches (WCC), box 93
World Council of Churches (WCC), Laymen's Conference, 1951,
(81/11)-(81/13)
World Council of Churches (WCC)/Peace/Racism, Gill/Gibble (David/Lamar)
Correspondence,
1970-1983, box 211
Worship Committee, January 1967, box 92
Worship, 1948-1982, (90/24)-(90/30)
Worship, 1984-1988, box 177
Writing, Unpublished, 1992, (34/52)
Writings, Unpublished, 1947-1997, boxes 02 – 03
Yoder Charitable Foundation Files, 1986-1997, box 193
Zahn, Gordon, 1994-1997, box 212
Section
1: Boxes 01-03 (Green): Introduction, Bibliography, and
Unpublished Writings, 1947-1997
Note that the
box number and file number are found at the end of each file folder
title. For example: (01/8) indicates material found in Box 01,
File 8. In the inventory, there is one file per entry and one
entry per file.
Introduction and Bibliography
This section was established in 2002
as a place to put introductory, biographical and bibliographic
materials.
Box 01 (Green).
Introduction to Collection. (01/1)
Biography, 1999. By Mark Thiessen Nation. From The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in
Honor of
John
Howard Yoder. Eds. Stanley Hauerwas, Chris K. Huebner,
Harry J. Huebner, and
Mark Thiessen Nation. Grand
Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans Publishing, 1991. (01/2)
Bibliography of writings, 1997, 1999. Compiled by Mark Thiessen
Nation, published as book and
in The
Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1997. Supplement
published in The Wisdom
of
the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder, 1999. (01/3)
Obituary from The Mennonite
Quarterly Review, January, 1998. Other obituaries from The
Goshen
News and The Elkhart Truth.
Funeral report by Theron Schlabach. (01/4)
Memorial Service, January 4, 1998, 2 tapes. Sermons: 3 tapes of
John H. Yoder preaching and
leading congregational
singing. Two sermons are titled, “Telling the Old Story” and
“Singing a New Song,” and one is
untitled. All but the memorial service are undated.
(01/5)
Conference, 2002, “Assessing the Theological Legacy of John Howard
Yoder,” a Believers Church
Conference. March 7-9, 2002,
University of Notre Dame. Abstracts for presentations.
Inventory of Yoder Collection at
Goshen Mennonite Archives, prepared February 8, 2002,
for conference, 29 pages. (01/6)
University of Notre Dame, John Howard Yoder’s Home Page, 15 pages of
printouts. Lists a
selection of Yoder’s unpublished,
out-of-print, or hard to find writings. The website was
established on October 30, 1997, and
has since been updated by Yoder’s family. (01/7)
New York Times Obituary for John H. Yoder, January 7, 1998, page
A-16. File also includes a
one page text from the worship
folder for the Memorial Service held for Yoder at the
College Mennonite Church in Goshen
on January 3, 1998. (01/8)
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre
Dame. Article from the Goshen
News, January 30, 2003, on Michael
Baxter, a priest and a professor at the institute,
regarding his recent visit to
Iraq. (01/9)
Yoder, John H., Discipleship
as Political Responsibility, Herald Press, Scottdale, PA, 2003,
67
pages. Originally published in
German in 1964. File also includes a copy of Mark
Thiessen Nation's new foreward to The Original Revolution.
(01/10)
Box 02 (Green)
Unpublished
writings, 1947-1997
Many unpublished and published
writings of John H. Yoder have been catalogued by the Mennonite
Historical Library, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. One can
check that database at the internet site at www.goshen.edu. (find library and
then the book catalog). Those unpublished writings that were not
catalogued by the historical library were transferred to the archives
and are found here. Some of the unpublished writings of Yoder
have also been posted on the John Howard Yoder’s Home Page web site at
the Notre Dame University under Theology. www.nd.edu/. This site opened
on October 30, 1997, and is being Yoder’s daughter, Martha Yoder Maust.
The copies of Yoder’s unpublished
writings were made available to the MHL and Archives by Mark Thiessen
Nation, London, England, in 2002. Nation acquired these from
Yoder himself, and listed many of these writings in his bibliographies
(1997, 1999). Those bibliographies are: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings
of John Howard Yoder, compiled by Mark Nation Thiessen, (Goshen,
Indiana: Mennonite Historical Society, 1997), and a “Bibliography
Supplement” as found on pages 472-491 of The Wisdom of the Cross, edited by
Stanley Hauerwas, et. al (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans
Publishing Company, 1999). For the bibliographies themselves, see
(01/2) and (01/3)
One should note that it is
difficult to define and list Yoder’s unpublished writings. Yoder
would often write a memo or longer letter and send it to several
persons. Some of these can qualify as “unpublished writings” and
an attempt has been made to bring these together and list them
below. A search of the collection proper would reveal many more
such documents.
1947 “Crown Hill Church.” Ca. 1947, 4 pp. (02/1)
1947 “The History of the General Conference Church at Sterling, Ohio.”
Ca. 1947, 6 pp. (02/2)
1952 “Reflections on the Irrelevance of Certain Slogans to the
Historical Movements They
Represent’ or ‘The Cooking of the
Anabaptist Goose’ or ‘Ye Garnish the Sepulchres of the
Righteous.’” Paper typed by Yoder on
the last day of a meeting of Mennonites in
Amsterdam, April 15-26, 1952, 3 pp.
(02/3)
1952 “Addendum” [to “The Cooking of the Anabaptist Goose” – name given
to this untitled paper
by Paul Toews]. Further reflections
on the themes of the paper, “The Cooking of the
Anabaptist Goose,” July 27, 1952, 5
pp. (02/4)
1954 “Report on Meeting on Relation of Nonresistance to Discipline in
Mission Congregations in
French-Speaking Europe.” Report
written by Yoder, summarizing a meeting held on
March 11 at Valdoie, France, 1954, 4
pp. (02/5)
1958 “The Bible Versus the Greeks (with Appendix on Anabaptists).”
Paper for seminar, The
Meaning of History, Goshen College
theological workshop, Aug. 26, 1958, 7 pp. (02/6)
1958 “Christian Education; Doctrinal Orientation.” Prepared as
beginning of conversation about
Mennonite Church-Administered High
Schools, 1958, 16pp. (02/7)
1959 “Theological and Biblical Basis for Christian Peace Action.”
Condensed version of paper
prepared with George M. Gibson and
Dale H. Aukerman. Produced for the Church Peace
Mission, Basel, Mennonite Central
Committee, 1959, 3pp. (02/8)
1961 “The Otherness of the Church.” Mennonite
Quarterly Review, 3 (Oct. 1961), 286-96. (02/9)
1962 “The Responsible Society: Some More Analysis and Questions.”
Pamphlet. Basel:
Mennonite Central Committee, 1962, 5
pp. (02/10)
1963 “Concerning J H Yoder assignment to write ‘Conrad Grebel
Lectures,’” 8 page memo sent to
archives and Mark T. Nation in 1993,
with drafts of three chapters from 1963 attached,
titled “Calling Out,” “Fellowship,”
and “Binding and Loosing,” 40 pp. total. The assignment
was never finished. (02/10B)
1965 “Issues in Ecclesiology.” Notes taken by John Paul Wenger and
typed by Harvey Graber
from class of same title taught in
Spring 1965, 28 pp. (02/11)
1966 “Report on Peace Witness Dimensions of South America Trip.” Report
to MCC Peace
Section Executive and Mennonite
Board of Missions and Charities Overseas Committee
concerning John H. Yoder’s May
22-July 8 trip to South America, July 21, 1966, 5 pp.
(02/12)
1967 “Study Commission on Church Organization,” Consultation of Nature
and Mission of the
Mennonite Church, April 10 – 11,
1967, Pittsburgh, PA, 25 pp. (02/12B)
1968 “Proposal for a group of ‘Believers’
Church’ Theologians.” A proposal written to elicit interest
among “free church” theologians
attending the WCC meeting in Uppsala in Aug. 1968.
(02/13)
1968 “Second Draft of ‘Theses’ on the Definition of the Free Church
Vision.” Presentation to the
Dean’s Seminar, a self-study project
of the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries,
May 1968, 30pp. (02/14)
1969 “What Does It Mean to be a Mennonite Agency Faithful to Its
Constituency?” Memo “To
whom it may concern” on Mennonite
Board of Missions and Charities stationary, May 14,
1969, 9 pp. (02/15)
1973 “Fuller Definition of ‘Violence.’” Memo to Cooper/Cardiff Study
Group, War-Nation-Church
Study Group, March 28, 1973, 7pp.
(02/16)
1973 “Hermeneutic Axioms for a Biblical Ethic.” Discussion starter for
a meeting of The Biblical
Theologians, New York City, April
27-28, 1973, 7 pp. (02/17)
1974 “Apologia pro imagine sua.” Memo “To whom it may interest”
concerning the
characterizations of John H. Yoder
under subtitles, ‘Withdrawn?,’ ‘Naïve?,’ ‘Apologete?,’
‘Hobbyist?,’ and ‘Ethicist?,’ Feb.
8, 1974, 4pp. (02/18)
1974 “Letter to Several Friends Interested in Social Ethics.” On just
war theory, May 17, 1974,
8pp. (02/19)
1975 Sugden, Christopher M.N. “A Different Dream: Jesus and
Revolution.” Theological Students
Fellowship
Bulletin 7 (spring 1975), 15-22. (02/20)
1976 Burkholder, J. R. “Mennonite Social Ethics and “The Politics of Jesus: Continuity
and
Change.” Unpublished paper presented
at the Mennonite Peace Theology Colloquium,
designed to respond to the Politics of Jesus, sponsored by the
Mennonite Central
Committee Peace Section, Kansas
City, Mo., Oct. 7-9, 1976, 14 pp. (02/21)
1978 “Is Homosexuality a Sin?’: How Not to Work at a Question.” Paper
for Mennonite Medical
Association Consultation, Sept 2930,
1978, 19pp. (02/22)
1978 “[Memo regarding] Ed Sander’s Theme: Paul, Judaism, and the Law;
Lecture at Notre
Dame, Feb.2, 1978.” Written “To whom
it may interest,” March, 6, 1978, 3 pp. (02/23)
1978 “A Theological Point of Reference for an Approach to Conflict,
Intervention, and
Conciliation.” A reconstruction of
extemporaneous remarks made at a Mennonite Central
Committee Peace Theology Colloquium
in Kansas City, Kan., April, 6-8, 1978 (revised
somewhat in 1991 and 1996). (02/24)
1978 “Theses Concerning the Just War Tradition When Seen from the
Pacifist Perspective:
Contribution to Semester-end
Synthesis.” 1978. (02/25)
Box 03 (Green)
1979 “The Conversation That Did not Happen.” Memo to Stanley Hauerwas
concerning his review
of Walzer and Durnbaugh on the lack
of seriousness with which pacifism has been dealt
with ecumenically, March 28, 1979, 5
pp. (03/1)
1979 “Making the Just War Tradition Credible.” Memo to “interested
colleagues in ethics,” Oct.
12, 1979, 6 pp. (03/2)
1980 “Another Fragment [on the Just War Tradition].” Memorandum to
several colleagues, Jan.
25, 1980, 11 pp. (03/3)
1980 “A Mennonite Perspective.” Revised version of lecture given at the
Shalom Consultation on
Jewish-Christian pacifist dialogue,
Nov. 30, 1980, revised 1987, 5 pp. (03/4)
1981 “This I Believe.” Lecture presented within a program of the campus
chaplain’s office at the
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, Cal., April 3, 1981, 9 pp. (03/5)
1982 “Every-Member Service in the Peace Churches.” The Observer, April 26, 1982, 5.
(03/6)
1982 “Apologia When Described by James Gustafson.” Memo addressed to
some friends in
response to comments about John H.
Yoder in Ethics in a Theocentric
Perspective by
James Gustafson, April 27, 1982, 10
pp. (03/7)
1982 “Sampling ‘Constructing the Concept…’ (by Gordon Kaufman)
Critically as an Exercise in
Theological Method.” Guest lecture
for Gayle Gerber Koontz, Systematic Theology class,
Associated Mennonite Biblical
Seminaries, Oct., 1982, 12 pp. (03/8)
1983 “The Imperative of Church Unity,” resume of a lecture presented to
AMBS courses in
“Church and Ministry” transcribed
November 1983. 8 pp. (03/9)
1988 “On the Limits of the ‘Kohlberg’ Model of Ethical Learning.” Memo
requesting response from
ethicist and educator colleagues,
Jan. 1988, 3 pp. (03/10)
1988 “Peace Theology Miscellany #1: Analysis of the Validity of the
Just War Tradition When
Seen from the Perspective of Careful
Ethical Method.” Jan. 9, 1988 (revised Oct. 1992), 8
pp. (03/11)
1989 “Peace Theology Miscellany #2: Why Should You Keep the Rules in bello Which Have
Been Elaborated in the Just War
Tradition?” July 1989 (revised 1994), 4 pp. (03/12)
1989 “Peace Theology Miscellany #5: The ‘Pacifism’ of the Early
Christians,” Oct. 1989 (revised
1991), 6 pp. (03/13)
1989 “Peace Theology Miscellany #6: Different Ways in Which War by
Becoming ‘Total,’ Can
Break Out of the Restraints of the
Just War Theory.” July 1989 (revised 1992), 3 pp.
(03/14)
1989 “Peace Theology Miscellany #7: How Protestantism Changed ‘Just
War.’” Nov. 1989, 2 pp.
(03/15)
1990 “Contribution to a Society of Christian Ethics panel on The Abuse of Casuistry by Toulmin
and Jensen.” Paper presented at
Society of Christian Ethics, Jan. 21, 1990. (03/16)
1990 “Feminist Theology Miscellany #2: What Kind of Feminist Was
Jesus?” Oct. 1990, 4 pp.
(03/17)
1990 “Peace Theology Miscellany #16: Non-Violent National Defense
Alternatives [bibliography].”
1990, 1 p. (03/18)
1992 Review of Interpretations of
Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition by
Richard B. Miller. In London Times Literary Supplement,
April 24, 1992, 6. (03/19)
1992 “Methodological Miscellany, Moral Theology #1: Is an Ethic of
Discipleship ‘Absolute?’”
Sept. 1992, 14 pp. (03/20)
1992 “Religious Perspectives on the Use of Force after the Gulf War.” A
publication of the Joan
B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame,
Document:3:WP:10, 1992. (03/21)
1993 “Memo on ‘Typologies’ of Mennonite Peace Positions,” 1993, 3 pp.
(03/22)
1994 “Moral Theology Miscellany #21. Testing the Case for ‘Nature’ as
Alternative, Correction or
Complement to Grounding Ethics in
the Particular (History, Scripture, Community),”
1994. (03/23)
1995 “Responding to a Challenge from Lisa Sowle Cahill in her Lover Your Enemies.” Memo “To
whomever it may interest,” April
1995, 4 pp. (03/24)
1996 “Can One Be Methodical Without Methodologism?” Memorandum to
graduate students in
ethics, University of Notre Dame,
June 18, 1996. (03/25)
1996 “’What Would You Do….?’ Revisited.” Further reflections on a
standard question, 1996, 6
pp. (03/26)
1996 “The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited: A bundle of old essays,”
Shalom Desktop
Publications, 170 pp. Also
includes a 3-page email from Egbert G. Leigh reflecting on the
piece. (03/27)
Section
2: Boxes 1-22 (Green): Chronological Listing of Papers, 1947-86
This
chronological listing is to complement the two bibliographies, compiled
by Mark Theissen Nation, of John H. Yoder’s writings in 1997 and
1999. These have been arranged in chronological order. For
the bibliographies, see (01/2) and (01/3) of this inventory.
Though the list is
chronologically below, the files in boxes 1-22 remain in “original
order” and have not been rearranged. The box and file number in
which a particular file is found is noted by (1/8) which indicates this
file is found in Box 1, File 8.
Year
File contents (box number/file number)
ca.
1900
1900 Jacob Schoonerhaven on Sanctification, ca. 1900,
Mennonite publication (21/11)
1945 – 46
1945 Debate on Peacetime Conscription, collected
articles, 1945 (13/3)
1945 Outline of Mennonite History Slides and Lecture,
13 pp, 6/20/1945 (15/5)
1946 Collège Cévenol, Ecole
Internationale, France, 2 pamphlets, 1946 (12/07)
1947
1947 Correspondence and church histories of Sterling
and Oak Grove by Yoder, 1947-48 (1/1)
1947 Goshen College Records,
edited by John H. Yoder, spring 1947 (6/4)
1947 YMCA journal for German prisoners of war, 1947
(15/8)
1947 Quienes son los Menonitas? pamphlet ca. 1947
(20/02)
[1947-49]
Amish man Andrew Yoder, Wooster lawsuit by, 1947-49
1947 Wooster lawsuit. Court transcript of
lawsuit of Andrew Yoder against his church,
Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, 1947.
Compare Yoder’s article “Caesar and the
Meidung,” MQR, 1949. (22/1)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder, brief
of trial, 1948 (2/4)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder,
correspondence and media articles, 1948
(2/3)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder, legal
citations, 1948 (2/2)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder, legal
documents, synopsis, 1948 (2/5)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder, local
media publicity, 1948 (2/7)
1947 Wooster lawsuit by Amishman Andrew Yoder,
transcript, 1948 (2/6)
1948-51
1948 Miscellaneous correspondence about voluntary
service organizations, 1948-68 (17/6)
1949 Pacifism in France, 1949-1952, newspaper
clippings (12/4)
1950 Basel Bible School, 1950-53 (16/2)
1950 Correspondence about Jean Widmer (from France),
1950-54 (15/2)
1950 Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) Conference,
1950 (12/5)
[1950-67]
Inter-relation of American Mennonites with Mennonites in Europe, 1950-67
1950 Inter-relation of American Mennonite agencies
with Mennonites in Europe. Report of 1950
tour (16/6)
1950 Inter-relation of American Mennonite agencies
with Mennonites in Europe. Report of 1954
Valdoie discussion on missionary
efforts to teach nonresistance. (16/7)
1950 Inter-relation of American Mennonite agencies
with Mennonites in Europe.
1957 Basel review meeting. (16/8)
1950 Inter-relation of American Mennonite agencies
with Mennonites in Europe. 1967
conference and background documents.
(16/9)
1950 Inter-relation of American Mennonite agencies
with Mennonites in Europe. Proceedings
of Europe Mission Study Conference,
1967. (16/11)
1951-52
1951 MCC European relief notes, publications, ( JHY
service in Valdoie), 1951-54 (9/4)
1952 Albert J. Meyer correspondence, 1952-53 (16/18)
1952 American Mennonite students in Europe (Concern),
1952-53 (16/5)
1952 MCC relations with European Mennonites, 1952
(16/19)
1952 Mennonite Quarterly Review articles, 1952-57
(9/10)
[1951-58]
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Criticisms of, by Yoder, 1951-58
1951 Criticisms of MCC, France MCC/Mennonite Liaison,
1950 (RESTRICTED) (8/1)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, MCC employee status, AFM
1951-52 (RESTRICTED) (8/4)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, August 1952 executive
committee meeting, 1952 (RESTRICTED) (8/3)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, Scottdale, 1952-53
(RESTRICTED) (8/5)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, O.O. Miller, 1954
(RESTRICTED) (8/9)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, William Snyder, 1954-58
(RESTRICTED) (8/6)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, Valdoie, 1955-58 (RESTRICTED)
(8/7)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, H. S Bender 1956, O.O. Miller
1957 (RESTRICTED) (8/8)
1951 Criticisms of MCC, Purves, 1958 (RESTRICTED)
(8/10)
[1952-71]
Concern
Correspondence, and History, 1952-71
1952 Concern
History—Amsterdam, 1952; Domburg, 1954 (11/1)
1952 Concern
History—1952-1957 (11/3)
1952 Concern
History—1952-1957 (11/2)
1952 Photo of first meeting of “Concern” circle,
Amsterdam, 1952 (17/13)
1952 Initial Planning for Bender Festschrift at
initiative of Concern, correspondence, 1955 (20/4)
1952 Concern
history—related Quaker groups, includes publications and correspondence,
1956-60 (8/2)
1952 Concern
history—Bad Durkheim conference, 1957 (7/7)
1952 Concern
history—correspondence, 1957-62 (RESTRICTED) (7/4)
1952 Concern
history—correspondence, 1957-62 (RESTRICTED) (7/5)
1952 Concern
history—Esko Loewen theological study group in 1960, plus correspondence
from 1957-58 (7/3)
1952 Concern
Materials, manuscript, 1958 (18/8)
1952 Concern,
1958 (16/17)
1952 Concern
history—editing no. 5, 1958 (7/2)
1952 Concern
history—Chicago Meeting, 1958-60 (7/1)
1952 Concern
correspondence, 1958-60 (17/7)
1952 Concern
correspondence, 1958-61 (RESTRICTED) (6/1)
1952 Concern
history – correspondence, 1961-62 (RESTRICTED) (7/6)
1952 General Management of Concern editing, 1961-71 (17/8)
1953
1953 Agape Verlag, Basel, 1953-56 (20/6)
1953 Junge Gemeinde, 1953 (22/23)
1953 Puidoux Conference Background Materials, 1953-55
(18/7)
1953 Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Pacifism, ca.
1953 (1/5)
1953 Robert Friedmann correspondence, 1953-63 (15/1)
1954-56
1954 Belgian Mission contact, first CO - Andre van
der Mensbrugghe, publications and
manuscript, 1954 (20/9)
1954 Brussels, Belgium. Correspondence, 1954-56,
Mennonite Board of Missions and
Charities interests in Brussels
(RESTRICTED) (20/17)
1954 Sous Le Drapeau Onder De Vlag, 1954.
Includes article on Anabaptists. (22/2)
1955 Mennonite Board of Missions Europe,
correspondence, 1955-58 (18/6)
1955 Writing for French magazine on “Gospel,
Christians & War” plus other correspondence,
1955-66 (18/5)
1956 Le Message Evangelique, booklets, 1956-64 (20/3)
1956 Photo of first meeting of North German Mennonite
ministers, Espelkamp, 1956 (17/14)
1956 Villa des Sepias, house organ, 1956 (20/10)
1956-67,
1991 Mennonite Church Schools
1956 Discussion on the church schools, includes
correspondence and publications, 1956-67;
1991 (5/1)
1956 Discussion on the church schools, includes
correspondence and publications, 1958-64
(5/2)
1956-60
Verheyden’s Anabaptism in Flanders
1956 Verheyden Book on Anabaptism in Flanders, book
manuscript, 1947 (19/3)
1956 “Anabaptism in Flanders”, by A.L.E. Verheyden,
correspondence, 1956-59 (19/2)
1956 Translation of Verheyden Anabaptism in Flanders
plus related correspondence, 1956-60
(1/9)
1957
1957 Correspondence with D.G. Barnhouse, plus radio
manuscripts, 1957-58 (20/16)
1957 Dissertation - original form 1957 draft (5/3)
1957 Original Typescript of Yoder’s dissertation,
1957 (1/11)
1957 French Military atrocities in Algeria, 1957
(8/11)
1957 Gospel Herald articles on the ecumenical
movement, 1957 (3/1)
1957 Origins of EIRENE—International Christian
Service for Peace (European contientious
objectior’s organization), 1957-60
(15/6)
1957 Trips and speeches, 1957-60 (13/4)
1957 Whether Guy Hershberger’s War, Peace... should
be put in German, correspondence,
1957-60 (6/7)
1958
1958 Amish school liberty questions, Wooster, OH,
correspondence and publications, 1958
(16/16)
1958 Concern about ethics behind the Goshen College
development program, 1958
(CONFIDENTIAL, John H. Yoder's
permission required.) (16/1)
1958 Goshen College Faculty Workshop, August 1958
(10/3)
1958 IMS study by Yoder on Christian Witness to the
Social Order, 1958-59 (4/4)
1958 Joint meeting, “Concern friends” and “Graduate
Fellowship” 1958-59 (16/15)
1958 Mennonite Graduate Fellowship, 1958-59 (20/7)
1958 Virginia Mennonites and school segregation, 1958
(16/13)
1958 Western Reserve Historical Society - Amish
display, bulletin, 1958 (15/4)
1958 World Council of Churches and International
Missionary Council merger, 1958-61 (10/1)
1958-64 New
Caledonia Church Division
1958 New Caledonia church division, “A case study:
Missions and the Colonial Mentality”,
1961 (13/14)
1958 New Caledonia Church division, Correspondence
with Croex Rouge/MCC, 1959 (14/5)
1958 New Caledonia church division, correspondence
with Raymond Charlemagne and R.
Leenhardt, 1958-61 (13/13)
1958 New Caledonia Church division, dossier R.
Leenhardt, publications / correspondence,
1958-61 (14/2)
1958 New Caledonia Church division, First draft of
report, 1959 (14/3)
1958 New Caledonia church division, mediation
efforts, 1959-61 (13/12)
1958 New Caledonia church division, publications and
correspondence, 1961-64 (13/11)
1958 New Caledonia Church division, writing notes,
1957-62 (14/4)
1959
1959 Agape Press from MCC and Scottdale to
Bienenberg, 1959-69 (Conditional access to file)
(9/1)
1959 Church Peace Mission Conference, Evanston, 1959,
includes papers and personal notes
(12/1)
1959 Correspondence with Annie Haldeman, Swiss-French
Mennonite Missionary in Algeria,
1959-64 (6/8)
1959 John A. Hostetler correspondence about article
on Mennonite Publishing House, 1959
(17/11)
1959 Mennonite Research Fellowship, 1959-60 (20/5)
1959 Study Group, GC Mennonites, Brethren and Concern
persons, 1959 (15/7)
1960
1960 Administration of MBMC in Italy in possible
relation to VMMB, Agape Press, MCC Pax,
1960 (2/11)
1960 Correspondence with John Brademas and other
Congressmen, 1960-78 (22/19)
1960 Divorce and Remarriage discussion, memo from
John H. Yoder, 1960 (22/5)
1960 MCC Peace Section Materials, 1960-65 (16/4)
1960 Mennonite Broadcasters, Inc. self-evaluation,
1960-64 (12/10)
1960 National Association of Evangelicals, Social
Action Committee meeting, April 1960 (17/1)
1960 Peace Witness, miscellaneous correspondence,
1960-71 (17/10)
1960 Translation of Berkhof Christ and the Powers
plus related correspondence, 1960-65 (1/10)
1960-70
Relations with Conservative Old Mennonites
1960 Correspondence about relations with conservative
Old Mennonite Rod and Staff
Publishers, includes publications,
1960-70 (3/5)
1960 Correspondence with Conservative Old Mennonite
Orie D. Yoder, 1962-63 (3/6)
1960 Correspondence about relations with Conservative
Old Mennonite Maynard Hoover and
Faith Haven, includes publications,
1962-64 (3/4)
1960 Correspondence with Conservative Old Mennonite
Leland Haines, question of the State,
including pamphlet, 1963 (3/9)
1960 Correspondence with Conservative Old Mennonite
Paul Yoder, 1964 (3/7)
1960 Relations with Conservative Old Mennonite
‘Mennonite Crusaders’ and William McGrath,
includes publications, 1966-67 (3/8)
1960 Relations with Conservative Old Mennonite April
1967 meeting at Clinton School (3/10)
1961
1961 “Tribal” mission work discussions, Mennonite
Board of Missions, publications and
correspondence, 1961 (12/9)
1961 Mennonite agencies on attitude to Peace Corps,
includes correspondence and
publications, 1961-63 (6/2)
1961 Replacing Peter Dyck at Mennonite Board of
Missions, 1961-62 (13/1)
1962
1962 “The Healing Professions in the Disciples’
Church”, manuscript, 1962 (21/9)
1962 Concerning Mennonite Representation in East
Europe, 1962 (17/4)
1962 Reba Place Fellowship’s concern for a political
witness responding to Cuban Missile
Crisis, 1962-63 (22/18)
1962 Visit to Nigeria with Mennonite Board of
Missions, 1962 (12/8)
1963
1963 Algeria News Letter, 1963-84 (22/17)
1963 Christian Peace Shelf, correspondence, 1963-71
(20/15)
1963 “Echos Fraternels de l’Epina”, bulletins,
1963-65 (14/1)
1963 Faculty Theological Studies at Goshen College,
1963 (10/4)
1963 Goshen College committee on relevance of
believer’s church, 1963-4 (9/3)
1963 I-W Project, 1963-69 (17/12)
1963 La Esperanza chicken-raising project in
Argentina, co-op between MBMC and MEDA,
1963-64 (3/2)
1963 Menno Sauder’s circulars, 1963; Menno B. Weaver,
1939 (19/1)
1963 Mennonite Broadcasts, correspondence, 1965
(20/11)
1963 Peace Witness visit to Ontario, Canada, includes
correspondence and publications, Fall
1963 (4/3)
1963 “Response II: Art as Communication,” by John H.
Yoder, 1963, 8 pp. Includes 2 pages of
background explanation by Yoder in
1991. Response was to Edward Stoltzfus’ paper,
“The Contribution of Music to
Worship”, 22 pp., presented at the Church Music
Conference, April 19-20, 1963,
Goshen College, co-sponsored by Music Committee of the
Mennonite General Conference and
Goshen College. (18/1)
1964
1964 “The Idea of a Church College” Workshop, notes
used for paper, Spring 1964 (4/5)
1964 Co-op Protestantism in Algeria, 1964-65 (6/6)
1964 Correspondence advising American Bible Society
about a simple “spoken” French
translation, 1964-66 (2/9)
1964 Correspondence with Nelson Kauffman for 1965
World’s fair Mennonite Display, 1964
(2/10)
1964 David Habegger round robin group, 1964 (6/3)
1964 Mennonite Board of Education Study of the
Mennonite Philosophy of Education, 1964-70;
1987 (22/12)
1964 Mennonite Broadcasts Consulting, 1964-65 (9/9)
1964 Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section
Minutes, 1964-66 (10/2)
1964 Peace Witness visit to Western Canada, includes
correspondence and publications,
Spring 1964 (4/2)
1964 Repealing the Draft, 1964-70, correspondence,
manuscripts and publications, 1964-70
(21/1)
1964 Rockway Mennonite Church, speaking trip, 1964
(13/9)
1964 Russian Christians - Data, publications, 1964-68
(21/8)
1964 Student Services files on development of idea of
dual conference affiliation for
congregations, 1964-65 (20/8)
1964 Trip to DDR and CSR for Peace Section in the
summer 1965, correspondence from
1964-66 (17/3)
1965
1965 Christian Obedience in a Divided World, 1965
(1/7)
1965 Church/State matters, regarding use of Mennonite
church of Fresno as a poling station,
1965 (22/14)
1965 Congregation as a discerning and forgiving body,
1965, by J.H. Yoder (22/9)
1965 Inter Seminary movement, speech and
correspondence, April 1965 (13/5)
1965 Letter to George R. Brunk, 1965 (1/2)
1965 Mennonite Church, Inter-Church relations
committee, 1965-70 (17/2)
1965 Myron Augsburger Crusade-Winona Lake, 1965
(22/11)
1965 Oral History project of Russian Mennonites in
Brazil and Paraguay, correspondence,
1965-71 (22/15)
1965 Student Services Committee study by Al Meyer of
Alternative models for church colleges,
1965-67 (4/1)
1965 Tabor College, speaking trip, April 1965 (13/6)
1965 The Peace Issue from the Historic Peace Church
Perspective, 1965 (1/4)
1965 Vietnam Journalism, 1965-67 (14/6)
1965 Vietnam Journalism, 1965-68 (14/7)
1966
1966 “Plea for a Broader view of Evangelical Unity”
effort by Yoder to mobilize moderates,
1966-68 (2/1)
1966 “The Hermeneutics of the Anabaptist”, address
later became MQR article, 1966 (20/12)
1966 Aurora Associates (related to Mennonite Board of
Missions work in Brazil), 1966 (16/3)
1966 Brothers of Christian Unity (Reba Place Contact)
1966 (9/8)
1966 Christian unity within a divided Protestantism,
1966, by John H. Yoder (22/10)
1966 Church Union negotiations of MBMC missionaries
in Ghana, 1966-69 (3/3)
1966 Paris Peace Center (MCC), 1966 (16/12)
1966 Winter Bible School classes, 1966 (9/2)
1966 World Conference on Evangelism, publications,
1966-67 (21/5)
1967
1967 Binding and Loosing, by John H. Yoder (appeared
in Concern), 1967 (22/8)
1967 CBS documentary on Mennonites, “The Peaceful
Revolution’, 1967 (6/5)
1967 Discussions with Nelson Kauffman about program
to train a couple for self-sustaining
evangelism, 1967 (2/8)
1967 Freeport interchurch gathering, speaking trip,
correspondence, 1967 (13/8)
1967 Fullness of Christ: Perspectives on Ministries
in Renewal, 1967, by John H. Yoder (22/7)
1967 German Mennonite Youth Meetings, Eichstock, 1967
(9/5)
1967 Reaction to apparent threat of loss of CO
provision, 1967 (21/4)
1967 Obituary of Kenneth J. Wiebe, 1952-67 (22/24)
1968
1968 Bienenberg, Switzerland, 1968-70 (22/3)
1968 Church Peace Mission, publishing
responsibilities, correspondence, 1968-71 (20/14)
1968 Evangelism discussion, memo from John H. Yoder,
1968 (22/4)
1968 German Mennonite Youth Meetings, Altenbach, 1968
(9/6)
1968 Goshen College, religious life committee,
papers, 1968 (20/13)
1968 I.M.S. project #20 Politics of Jesus
Correspondence, 1968-72 (1/6)
1968 Mennonite acceptance of draft resistance,
publications and correspondence, 1968-69
(21/3)
1968 Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc. Peace Witness Radio
Scripts, 1968-69 (12/2)
1968 Peace Efforts outside Mennonite Circles,
correspondence, 1968 (21/2)
1968 Penn State Chapel, Speaking trip, text of
speech, 1968 (13/10)
1968 Souvenir of peace teaching visit to Japan, fall
of 1968 (17/5)
1968 When is marriage not a marriage, 1968 (1/3)
1969
1969 Echos Fraternals de l’Epina, 1969, bulletins
(12/6)
1969 German Mennonite Youth Meetings, Geiberg, 1969
(9/7)
1969 Goshen College/Seminary cooperation committee,
1969-73 (15/10)
1969 Institute of Mennonite Studies - Paul Kraybill
project, 1969-70 (15/3)
1969 MBMC policy review, 1969 (JHY worked as
consultant) (12/3)
1970-71
1970 El discipulo cristiano, publication, 1970-71
(18/3)
1970 Miller, Daniel. Correspondence, 1970-71, between
Yoder, Mission Board, Miller and
others regarding Miller’s furlough,
1971, from Montevideo, Uruguay, in his work under
Mennonite Board of Missions.
(RESTRICTED) (21/12)
1971 Goshen College/Seminary development cooperation,
1971-73 (15/9)
1971 MCC Christian Committee for service on Algeria,
report, 1971 (17/9)
1971 Oak Grove Mennonite Church, speaking trip,
October 1971 (13/7)
1971 Reformation and Missions: A Literature Review,
1971, by John H. Yoder (22/6)
1971 Visiting South America with Mennonite Board of
Missions, 1971-72 (13/2)
1972-73
1972 “This Land is Ours” by Urie A. Bender, play
manuscript, 1972 (18/9)
1972 IMS peace studies chair proposal, 1972 (21/6)
1972 London Mennonite Center - Relations with
Reformed Baptists, 1972-73 (16/10)
1972 Mennonite Graduate Fellowship Report, 1972
(16/14)
1972 Outreach, ‘72, Gerald Derstine, Mennonite
Pentecostal (22/21)
1973 A Brief Account of the Evangelical Church of
Vietnam, 1973 (22/20)
1973 Liquidation of Concern, correspondence, 1973-76
(18/4)
1974-86
1974 Christian Peace Conference Information,
Czechoslovakia, April 29, 1974 (22/16)
1975 MCC Peace File, correspondence, 1975 (20/1)
1975 Paraguay Mennonite Student retreat in Germany,
July 1975, manuscript and
correspondence (18/2)
1982 Bienenenberg, Switzerland, 1982-86 (22/22)
1984 Mennonite World conference, clipping, 1984
(21/10)
1985 Der Morgen Stern, published in Alsace by Henry
Yoder, 1985 (21/7)
1986 The Watchword Messenger, 1986. Part of the
conservative Mennonite movement. (22/13)
Section
3: Boxes 23-91: Box / File Listing for Papers, 1947-1997
These boxes are
listed by the order of contents, and have been left in Yoder’s original
arrangement. The box number and file number are found at the end
of each entry. There is one entry for each file folder; for
example, File 8 entitled “Litigation, 1961-84” of Box 23 will have only
one entry in this index, and it will be referenced by (23/8).
Box 23 (Large)
[Files 1-7 were transferred to the C. Z. Yoder and Howard C. Yoder
Collections]
Litigation,
1961-84
Litigation and the Law, 1939-84, including correspondence and Mennonite
statements concerning
the traditional avoidance of using
litigation to repay debts. Includes Yoder’s cover letter to
Ted Koontz and the archives, 1992,
where he traces this discussion historically. Also
includes Yoder’s paper on “Possible
new procedures for use in areas where existing legal
procedures are not compatible with
scriptural principle… " (pages 37-47), ca. 1961-62.
(23/8)
Anabaptist
Vision and Mennonite Reality, 1952-1970
“Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality”, 1952-70, including a copy of
Yoder’s article
“Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite
Reality”, as published in Consultation on Anabaptist
Mennonite Theology, edited by A. J.
Klassen, Fresno, California, Council of Mennonite
Seminaries, 1970. Also
includes some photocopies documenting Yoder’s early
“Reflections on the Irrelevance of
certain Slogans to the historical movements they
represent. Or, the Cooking of the
Anabaptist Goose, Or, Ye garnish the sepulchres of the
righteous,” 3 pages, plus cover
letter from Yoder to Harold S. Bender, May 20, 1952.
Articles which are photocopies of
originals. (23/9)
Interchurch
Relations Committee, 1957-72 (3” of materials)
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1957-66. Including notes,
correspondence, collected articles,
minutes of this committee, of which
Yoder was secretary for awhile. Includes Yoder’s
1957 article on ecumenical movement,
and 1958 materials on a conference on unity.
(Notes, correspondence, articles,
minutes) (23/10)
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1967. Notes, correspondence, articles,
minutes. (23/11)
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1968. Notes, correspondence, articles,
minutes. (23/12)
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1969. Notes, correspondence, articles,
minutes. (23/13)
Interchurch Relations Committee, 1970-72. Notes, correspondence,
articles, minutes. (23/14)
Assorted
Materials, 1949-93
Photograph, France, Laxou Children’s Home, MCC, 1949, small snapshot
photograph of John H.
Yoder, standing, with children
(seated) and Pierre Widmer (also seated). It was an
excursion to Toul on the weekend and
picnic on the way (on foot) from the Railway
Station Toul to the Fry (?) Boisle
Comte of Joseph Mueller. (23/15)
Photograph, Mennonite Central Committee conference, two small snapshot
photographs,
including one showing Liesel Widmer,
Margaret Jahnke, Jonas Classen, David Block (?)
and Ruth Carper (Eitzen). The
other one is of a 1949 or 1950 Europe MCC personnel
retreat in a castle on the Rhine,
MCC workers include Paul Peachey, Norman Wingert,
and front plane Margaret Jahnke
(23/16)
Watchword
Messenger (1988-90), published by North Lebanon Mennonite
Fellowship Church,
Lebanon, Pennsylvania (23/17)
Mission-Foi-Evangile,
Newsletter, 1986-88, Colmar, France (23/18)
Japan Anabaptist Center, Mimoto Akira, Hokkaido Mennonite Conference
Newsletter (1980)
(23/19)
American Mennonite Students in Europe, October 1958 Meeting (in
German), as organized by
Helmut Funck. Earlier meetings
had been held since 1952. (23/20)
Montbeliard Mennonite church, 50th Anniversary Poster, celebrating the
building of Chapelle de la
Prairie, 1930-1980. This is
used by the Montbeliard Mennonite congregation, the oldest
and largest congregation in France,
begun 1704. (Original found in Map case Drawer)
(23/21)
Litwiller family roots. Correspondence, 1978-87, with Lester Litwiller,
Wooster, Ohio, on Litwiller
roots from France, Germany (23/22)
Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA), article titled "A Vision for
ESA," by Weldon Nisly, staff
person, 15 pages, no date (circa
1981). Author maybe also Ron Sider, member of
Diamond Street Mennonite Church,
Philadelphia. (23/23)
Hauerwas, Stanley. "When the politics of Jesus makes a
difference." Article, as published in
Christian Century (October 13,
1993): 982-987 (23/24)
Institute of
Mennonite Studies, 1966-74
Institute is connected with Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries,
of which John H. Yoder
was associated director for a
portion of this time between 1966-74. Correspondence,
minutes, and reports. 3”
materials. (23/25)
Goshen College,
Chapel Evaluation Committee, 1967
Yoder served on Goshen College’s Chapel and Convocation Evaluation
Committee, 1967, and
materials includes reports and
minutes of this committee. Includes materials on Religious
Life Committee, 1965-66, and other
collected items on the College and Mennonite Board
of Education, 1963-69, connected to
this theme of Christian education. 4” materials.
(23/26)
Box 24 (Large)
Assorted
Materials, 1960-1984
Meyer, Albert J., “Needed: A Mennonite Philosophy of Higher Education”,
1962 (Draft, 33 pages,
thermofax copy, and photocopy,
including three page explanation from John H. Yoder,
June 28, 1993) (24/1)
Meyer, Albert J., “Study of Academic Sub-Communities of Other
Church-Related Academic
Resources on University Campuses,”
April, 1969 (Report, Mennonite Student Services
Committee, Mennonite Board of
Education, church interest/role in higher education,
mission statement, analysis of
sub-college models, etc.) (24/2)
Congregational Ministries Task Force, “Progress Report of the Task
Force on Congregational
Ministries,” May 8, 1971 (including
a final report from James M. Lapp, August 16, 1971,
“Annotated Summary and Evaluation of
Agency Approaches to Congregational
Ministries,” April 1, 1971, report
of congregational contacts, April 19, 1971) (24/3)
Mennonite Church General Board and Minority Ministries Council, “Cross
Cultural Theological
Consultation,” April 26-29, 1973
(including submissions sorted by color) from: Paul M.
Miller, John Powell, Neftali Torres
(green), Ross T. Bender, Samuel Hernandez, Ed
Riddick (ivory), Hubert L. Brown,
John A. Lapp, and Chuy Navarro (blue) (24/4)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar
Sessions I-XXV, December
19, 1966-December 12, 1967 (3” of
material, meeting minutes and notes) (24/5)
Mennonite Board of Missions, “Student Service Interpretation and
Policy,” (including issues of
“Mennonite Student Services”
bulletins, draft of Ninth Mennonite World Conference by
Virgil J. Brenneman, letters by John
Rempel, issues of “Arena” from October 1967-March
1969, paper by Evan Adams,
“Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship,” (1967), various issues of
“Student Services Newsletter,”
“Bulletin: Conference of Mennonites in Canada,” “Ontario
Peace Bulletin,”) (24/6)
Yoder, John H., “Mennonite Church Reorganizing 1967-1970,” (Study
Commission on Church
Organization: Consultation of Nature
and Mission of Mennonite Church 10-11 April 1967,
Pittsburgh; Anabaptist
Understandings of the Nature and Mission of the Church,
Implications for Contemporary
Mennonite Church Organization, early draft of a text for
Gospel Herald by John H. Yoder,
including archives transfer memorandum June 1993)
(24/7)
Mennonite World Conference Newsletters September 1980-1984 (24/8)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS), Curriculum Philosophy
1960, 1964-’66
(including letters on Joint
Curriculum Committee, theology of Christian Education by Ross
T. Bender) (24/9)
Amish Religious Freedom, file on religious liberties, 1966-1973, as
collected by John H. Yoder
(News clippings, magazine articles,
and letters) (24/10)
Denominational Worship Committees, “Consultation on Worship,” (24/11)
Goshen College: Annual Report of the President to the Board of
Overseers and the Mennonite
Board of Education,” 1962-63,
1965-66, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1970-71 (24/12)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar
Session: May 1968- April
1970. Iincludes meeting
minutes and notes, including memorandum from John H. Yoder,
August 6, 1968, on “Response to
Cluster Thurst;” Conference of International Education:
May 26-27, 1966, Ross T. Bender,
various issues of “Pastoral Messenger.” (24/13)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar
Progress Reports
Summaries, ca. 1968-70. Ross
T. Bender’s Papers, minutes, notes, and memorandum.
(24/14)
Periodicals, various issues of Pastoral
Messenger, The Watchword Messenger, and Mission
Messenger,
1967-69. (24/15)
Box 25 (Large)
Mennonite
Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section, 1959-60, 1963-70
Yoder sat on this Peace Section for
a time, and in 1966 he was asked to write Mennonite
peace witness literature; he writes,
“out of this came Politics of Jesus
and Christian
Witness
to the State.” It was a joint project with Institute of
Mennonite Studies, and
Peace Section.
MCC Peace Section Minutes, 1959-60. Nothing personal with
minutes, but here is found the
1993 two page cover note by Yoder
explaining this box of materials. (This material did not
fit into one file folder and so was
divided into two—see below—that should be thought of
as one file.) (25/1a)
MCC Peace Section Minutes Jan. 1963-Nov 1968. (25/1b)
MCC Peace Section Meeting Papers and Reports, June 1970. John H.
Yoder led devotions at
the June 4-5, 1970, meeting, but no
personal correspondence / reports by Yoder. Packet
includes a South African study, a
copy of The Christian Century, The
Canadian
Mennonite April-May 1970, etc.
(25/2)
MCC Peace Section Meeting, February 1970 (Includes a few personal
letters from Yoder to John
A. Lapp, May 1, 1970, Arverd
Wiggers—Holdeman Mennonite, and to John A. Lapp,
December 22, 1969) (File
includes Agendas Reports, Proposals, Minutes, Newsletters,
Memos, a Congressional Record, a Social Change, and copies of
various periodical
articles. Jan-May, Dec. 1969,
Jan-June 1970. (25/3)
MCC Peace Section 1969. (25/4)
MCC Peace Section Meeting agendas, reports, finances/budget, Nov. 1969.
(25/5)
“Christ, Conscience, Church, and Conscription” J. R. Burkholder,
Goshen, IN, Nov. 20, 1969.
(25/6)
MCC Peace Section. Papers on Conscription and the Draft, budget
for 1970, Congressional
Record,
a letter from John H. Yoder to John A. Lapp, a pamphlet called “Why
Draft
Repeal?,” a Social Action. 1967 and 1969. (25/7)
MCC Peace Section minutes, September 12-13 1969. (25/8)
MCC Peace Section minutes, budget, agendas, papers, correspondence from
John H. Yoder to
John A. Lapp and John E. Lapp, 1969
(25/9)
MCC Peace Section papers, agendas, budget, memos, reports especially
about the Middle East,
minutes, letters from John H. Yoder
to Frank H. Epp and Walton Hackman,
January-March, May, July 1969 (25/10)
MCC Peace Section papers, minutes, memos, budget, MCC (Canada) Peace
and Social
Concerns Study (Preliminary summary
findings), Guiding Principles for the MCC Peace
Section, 1968-1969. (25/11)
MCC Peace Section memos, papers, reports, budget, letters from John H.
Yoder to William
Keeney, a “Selective Service
System: Special Form for Conscientious Objectors”
Oct-Nov 1968. (25/12)
MCC Peace Section memos, letters from John H. Yoder to Ivan Kauffman
and Ernest Bennet,
copy of article from the New York Times Jan-April, June 1968
(25/13)
MCC Peace Section reports, funds, memos, agendas May, July-Aug. 1968
(25/14)
MCC Peace Section papers, memos, letters from John H. Yoder to Ivan
Kauffman and William
Keeney, Mar-May 1968. (25/15)
MCC Peace Section agendas, budget, memos, Jan 1968 (25/16)
MCC Peace Section memos, letters, papers from other denominations,
about Vietnam and the
Church 1967 (25/17)
MCC Peace Section Program and Budget Planning FY 1968 (25/18)
MCC Peace Section memos, funds, letters from John H. Yoder to the Peace
Section Executive
Committee Members and Curtis Burrell
June, Aug, and Oct. 1967 (25/19)
MCC Peace Section memos, minutes, reports about Vietnam and COs, funds,
several Mennonite
News
Service, a Congressional
Record, letters from John H. Yoder to Pat Hostetter and
Robert Kreider, Feb, Apr-June
1967 (25/20)
MCC Peace Section minutes, papers/memos primarily about the draft and
COs, proposals to
amend the draft, statements about
peacetime conscription (1948, 1950, 1951, 1953,
1955, 1959) article from The New York Times, Gospel Herald, The
Interchurch News,
FCNL Washington Newsletter Mar
1963, Oct-Nov. 1965, Dec 1966, Feb-Apr 1967. (25/21)
MCC Peace Section papers, memos, letters from John H. Yoder to William
Keeney Oct-Nov
1966, Jan-Mar 1967. (25/22)
MCC Peace Section papers, agendas, funds, minutes memos Sept-Oct,
Dec.1966-Jan 1967.
(25/23)
MCC Peace Section agendas, memos, papers on the necessity of a MCC
office in Washington
and “Guiding Principles on
Participation in East-West Peace Conferences” (1961), New
York
Times article, letter from John H. Yoder to Edgar Metzler, May,
Aug-Sept 1966.
(25/24)
Box
26 (Large)
Indiana-Michigan
Mennonite Conference, 1959, 1963-1966, 1976-1980
Miscellaneous folder, including Annual Reports, 1963-1966. Also reports
and personnel listings
from 1976-1980. One collection
entitled “The Plain Coat,” four study papers as presented
to the conference on Dec. 1, 2,
1959. (26/1)
Conrad Grebel
College, 1959-1969
Correspondence between John H. Yoder and Harvey Taves, 1959-1960,
concerning the
establishment of Conrad Grebel
University and its administration. Also, the Conrad Grebel
Annual Reports 1964, 1969 and some
miscellaneous pamphlets. (26/2)
Ontario Peace Churches and Higher Education at the University of
Waterloo Study Committee
Report, 1959. Written investigation,
evaluation, and predictions for the possibility of a
Residential Mennonite College
affiliated with the University of Waterloo, Ontario. 46 pp.
(26/3)
Education,
1961-1970
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Dean’s Seminar,
January-April 1968. Sessions XXVII
– XLII. Transcript of discussions at
the seminar, including comments by Ross T. Bender,
J.C. Wenger, William Klassen,
Millard Lind, Leland Harder, Jacob Enz and John H.
Yoder. Mentions Yoder’s presentation
on the “Theses concerning the Nature of the
church” on February 26, 1968 and
includes handwritten notes by Yoder throughout. 3”
material. (26/4)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Project Contacting Younger
Churches, January 15,
1968. Pre-project memorandums,
hand-written notes, and published compilation of
materials evaluating Project CYC by
Ross T. Bender. 100 pp. (26/5)
Student Services Committee. Minutes and Reports, 1963-1970. John
H. Yoder sat on this
committee and gave a presentation on
“Church Relatedness of Student Groups.” (note:
file starts with one piece in 1961).
(26/6)
Mennonite Board of Education, Study of Academic Sub-Communities or
Other Church-Related
Academic Resources on University
Campuses. Albert J. Meyer, April 1969. 100pp. (26/7)
Education for Mission and Internationalism, May 26-27, 1966. Report
from Conference for
International Education, 66pp.
Also miscellaneous materials pertaining to research of the
issue of International Education in
the Mennonite Church. (26/8)
Mennonite Graduate Student Fellowship, 1961-1970. Bound copy of papers
presented at
meetings John H. Yoder did not
attend, but specifically requested by mail. (26/9)
Student Services Committee, 1966-1968. “Study of Academic Resources” by
Al Meyer, first draft
1968. Also, research, correspondence
and newspaper clippings surrounding the
development of new church school
formats at Conrad Grebel and Messiah College,
1966-1968. (26/10)
Oak Grove
Mennonite Church, 1947-1974
Correspondence: John H. Yoder with Virgil M. Gerig about the issue of
divorce. (26/11)
H. C. Yoder. Article titled, “The Oak Grove Congregation 1900-1965.” 16
pp. (26/12)
50th Ordination Anniversary, May 22, 1966. Assorted Bulletins and
Church Directory from 1976.
(26/13)
Mennonite Church Conference Relationship. 1947-1974. Correspondence
between John H. Yoder
and Virgil Gerig, Lorus E. Troyer,
Robert Otto, H. C. Yoder and others about the
membership status of Oak Grove
Mennonite Church. Also, the revised edition of the Oak
Grove Mennonite Church Constitution
and Memos between the congregation and the
conference. (26/14)
Prairie Street
Mennonite Church, 1966-1976
Music/Worship Study. 1966. Copies of the questionnaire about organ use
by the congregation as
well as possible letters addressed
to the members. (26/15)
Music/Worship Study. 1969-1970. Correspondence between John H. Yoder
and the
Congregation, the rest of his
committee concerning the establishment of a longer, more
thorough study at Prairie Street.
(26/16)
Capital and Community Development, 1967-1976. Memo to church members
about moral issues
involving church economics. 1976
Survey to congregation measuring interest and concern
in “satellite” or
“sub-congregations” meeting elsewhere to retain status within the
original
community. (26/17)
Assorted
Materials, 1967-1987
Urban, Minority and Younger Churches. 1979-1980. Correspondence between
John H. Yoder and
Ivan Kauffman from the Mennonite
Church General Board concerning his proposal for
improving services to these
congregations. (26/18)
Mennonite Church, General Assembly. Workbook, July 7-12, 1987. (26/19)
Europe, Bienenberg, Mission Study Conferences. July 18-21, 1967.
Includes “Historical
Perspective and Current Issues” by
John H. Yoder, “Review of Political, Economic,
Social, and Religious Developments
in Europe Over the Last Decade That Have an Effect
on our Mission” by David A. Shank,
and proceedings from the conference itself. (26/20)
Frank Epp, Papers and Speeches. Bound collection of “The American
Causes of World War III,”
“The Unilateral Disarmament of the
Church,” “The Ecumenical Movement of the Mennonite
Church,” and other assorted
materials. (26/21)
Box 27 (Large)
Issue of State
Support to Church Schools, 1965
Minutes, discussion questions, memos concerning Goshen College’s use of
government funds,
1960-1965. Paper, “Mennonite College
and Financial Aid,” 51 pp., by Harold E. Bauman;
critique of Bauman, 7 pp., by J.
Howard Kauffman; critique of Kauffman, 2 pp.,
incomplete, by John H. Yoder;
Bauman’s responses to Kauffman, 1965. (27/1)
Study
Commission of Church Organization (SCCO), 1936-1971
Study Commission of Church Reorganization, 1936-1971.
Correspondence: John H. Yoder, John
R. Mumaw, Paul Kraybill, J. Howard
Kauffman,1963-1971. Includes correspondence from
Yoder to Ernest Bennett, December,
1969. Report of Joint Conference on Church
Organization, Yellow Creek Mennonite
Church, Goshen, Indiana,
1970. Itinerary and agenda for
Kitchener 71 (Constitutional Assembly and Mennonite
General Assembly) 1971. Also
includes “The Church Functions with Purpose,” 1967,
essay by Calvin Redekop, as well as
other essays by Redekop on the organization of the
church. Not included in this
file are John H. Yoder’s paper, “Anabaptist Understandings
of the Nature and Mission of the
Church, with Implications for Contemporary Mennonite
Church Organization,” 19 pp. plus
title page, which he gave at the April 10-11, 1967,
Pittsburgh meeting of this
Commission; Exhibit A: Checklist of the Functions of the
Church, 5 pp., used for “Anabaptist
Understandings…”; and Exhibit D, extract from a
memorandum of November 1962 to
Ernest Bennet, used for “Anabaptist
Understandings…”. Exhibits A
and B can be found in folder 27/5. (27/2)
Associated
Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar, 1957-1968
AMBS, Dean’s Seminar, 1957-1968. Fourth National Triennial
Conference of the Interseminary
Movement, 1957. Papers and itinerary
for this conference as well as related papers on
nature of ministry, 1957-1968. (27/3)
Mennonite
Central Committee, Peace Section, Executive Committee on Issues
concerning MCC work in
Vietnam, 1965-1969
“This is the debate within Mennonite Central Committee about whether
the relief program in Viet
Nam was compatible with a peace
position or amounted to partisanship for Saigon and
the US Army. This was
complicated by the fact that the relief program ‘Viet Nam
Christian Service’ was being
operated by MCC on behalf of Church World Service/National
Council of Churches.” Noted by
John H. Yoder, 1993, 27/4.
Vietnam Christian Services Guidelines,1966-1968. Correspondence: John
H. Yoder, Paul
Longacre, Paul Leatherman, most
specifically about Doug Hostetter and questions about
what to do with situation in
general. Document defining Vietnam Christian Service, 1966.
Report by Atlee Beechy on situation
in Vietnam, 1968. MCC statement on Viet Nam to
the White House, 1968. (27/4)
Vietnam Relief Peace Concerns, 1966-1969. Correspondence and official
memos, continued from
27/4. Testimony of Jim
MacCracken for the Kennedy Committee, 1967. MCC press
releases (MCC News Service) on
activities and purpose of activities, 1967-1969. (27/5)
Vietnam Relief, 1966-1969. Correspondence and memos, continued: John H.
Yoder, Doug
Hostetter, William Snyder, Paul
Longacre, Paul Leatherman, Ivan Kauffman, Atlee
Beechy, Peter Dyck, J. M. Klaasen,
Edgar Metzler, Wilbert Shenk, Patricia Hostetter,
Earl Martin. Reports on actions and
meetings between MCC workers/administrators and
government officials. Statement from
Doug Hostetter about his beliefs on Christian
responsibility in such a situation,
1969. Petitions to government advocating withdrawal.
MCC press releases, 1968-1969. (27/6)
MCC Peace Section—Vietnam, 1965-1968. Correspondence: Edgar Metzler,
William T. Snyder;
letters/telegrams to President
Johnson from Peace Section Executive Committee; basic
information and history on conflict
in Viet Nam. MCC press release by Atlee Beechy,
1968, “Dialogue with the National
Liberation Front and Democratic Republic of Vietnam.”
Also, reports from Beechy on work in
Viet Nam summer 1968. Willard Kraybill’s report on
travel to Viet Nam, October,
1965. (27/7)
Vietnam, 1955-1956. John H. Yoder’s communications with French
churches, 1955-1956. These
letters anticipate issues, both
political and religious, that the American/Vietnam conflict
forces MCC to consider twenty years
later. (27/8)
Associated
Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Dean’s Seminar, 1968
“Models.” Memorandum and minutes for Dean’s Seminars, 1968.
Includes longer memorandum
concerning Anabaptist traditions by
John H. Yoder. (27/9)
Philosophy of
Education Study Committee, 1967-1970
Correspondence, 1967-1970: Daniel Hertzler, John H. Yoder, Paul
Bender. Surveys, information
from conferences, and articles on
higher education in the Mennonite church. Report, “The
Impact of Christian Education at the
Various Age Levels,” 57pp. by Leonard Gross, 1963.
Gross’s report contains a chapter,
“Statement of a Basic Issue, John H. Yoder vs. Ross
Bender.” (27/10)
Mennonite
Central Committee, Peace Section, 1960-1966
Part 1: Minutes
and Reports, 1961-1966
Mennonite Central Committee Workbook, 1966. (Recommended for
removal if have elsewhere)
(27/11)
Correspondence (primarily personal, or at least, very internal): Ivan
J. Kauffman, John H. Yoder,
William Keeney. Concerning
hiring of personnel and regarding resignation of Kauffman in
1968. 1967-1968 (27/12)
Peace Section Minutes 1961-January 1963. Also includes William Keeney’s
“Report of Meeting
Regarding Proposed World Council of
Churches Study,” 1962, and the committee’s
“Statement of Purpose and Function
of Church Peace Mission,” 1962. (27/13)
Peace Section Executive Committee, 1964-66. Agenda, minutes,
memorandum,
correspondence. Reports on
activities by Marlin E. Miller; Report of a Russian Baptist
Visit by Edgar Metzler; Report on
Mississippi Delta Investigation by Edgar Stoesz and
Edgar Metzler. (27/14)
Part 2: Asia,
1960-1964
Materials concerning MCC activities throughout Asia, 1960-1966.
Correspondence: William T.
Snyder, Ivan J. Kauffman, Edgar
Metzler. Report on Japanese Peace Work Report from
Ferd Ediger to MCC Peace Section,
1964; report #1 on travels through Japan, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, and Viet Nam by Edgar
Metzler, 1964; report on travels to India and Viet
Nam by Paul Peachy, 1960; report on
MCC of India meeting, 1963. MCC news service
reports on Metzler’s travels in
India, 1964; All-Indian Peace Conference of Historic Peace
Churches, 1966. (27/15)
Part 3: Africa,
1961-1965
African Mennonite Conferences, 1962-1965. Africa Mennonite
Fellowship, Bulawayo, Rhodesia,
1965: Messages and Reports
book. Limuru Study Conference (Kenya), 1962: Messages
and Reports book.
Correspondence concerning Bulawayo and Limuru conferences:
Edgar Metzler, William Snyder,
Donald R. Jacobs, 1964-1965. Also includes a letter to
Orlando Waltner from Edgar Metzler,
1966. (27/16)
Documents detailing structure of Peace Section of MCC, 1946, revisions
1959, 1961, 1968.
Correspondence: William Keeney, Ivan
J. Kauffman, William T. Snyder, John H. Yoder,
Ed Metzler, John E. Lapp. Yoder
involved, 1965-1968. (27/17)
National
Committee for Amish Religious Freedom, 1956-1972
Minutes for National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom, 1967.
Documents from Rev.
William C. Lindholm, Grace Lutheran
Church, East Tawas, Michigan, president of
National Committee for Amish
Religious Freedom. Academic papers by Donald A.
Erickson (“The Amish and the State
School Satutes” and “Freedom’s Two Educational
Imperatives,” 20 pp.) and Franklin
H. Littell (“Sectarian Protestantism and the Pursuit of
Wisdom,” 24 pp.), prepared for
National Invitational Conference on State Regulation of
Nonpublic Schools, Chicago, 1967.
Conference book for “Freedom and Control in
Education: National Invitational
Conference on State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools,”
held at the Centre for Continuing
Education, University of Chicago, 1967. Press releases
concerning court cases involving
Amish communities and public schools, 1969, 1971.
Collection of academic papers “The
Amish and Their Schools: The Issue as Seen by
Renowned Educators and Church
Leaders.” |