Theological Resources

Exploring a common future for Mennonites and Catholics

• "Mennonite and Catholic: A Journey of Healing" by Gerald W. Schlabach
• "You Converted to What? One Mennonite's Journey", by Gerald W. Schlabach, Commonweal, 1 June 2007
• "The Church as Sign or Sacrament: Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II and John Milbank", by Neal Blough
• "John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic", by Mark Thiessen Nation
• "On Being a Mennonite Catholic" by Ivan Kauffman, Mennonite Quarterly Review, April 2002.
• "Between the Times, Between Communities: Eucharistic Theology for the Bridge" by Gerald W. Schlabach
• "Mennonite-Catholic Conversations in North America: History, Convergences, Opportunities " by Ivan Kauffman, Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1999.
• "Renewing the Conversation: Mennonite Responses to the Second Vatican Council" by Earl Zimmerman, Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1999.
• "The Bridgefolk Movement in Ecumenical Context" by Gerald W. Schlabach

Working for peace, justice and respect for life

• A Mennonite and Catholic Contribution to the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence
• "'Has Christ been divided? Was Paul Crucified for You?': The Evangelical Imperative of Ecumenical Peacemaking and the Bridgefolk (Mennonite-Catholic) Movement", by Darrin Snyder Belousek, Mennonite Life, Fall 2007
  Plus:Snyder Belousek's reply to objections, Mennonite Life, Spring 2008
• "How Catholics began to speak their peace" by Tom Cornell, Salt of the Earth
• "'No, Never Again War': The Evolution of Catholic Teaching on Peace and War" by Drew Christiansen, S.J.
• "Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in Peace Tradition Perspective" by Darrin W. Belousek
• "What is a Peace Church?." by Gerald W. Schlabach
• "The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John H. Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor." by Gerald W. Schlabach
• Debate on Just War Between Conservative Catholic Thinker George Weigel and Mennonite scholars in Mennonite Life online journal
• "Peacemaking and the Use of Force: Behind the Pope's Stringent Just-War Teaching" by Drew Christiansen, SJ., America magazine, 15 May 1999

Integrating sacramentality and discipleship

• "An Anabaptist Liturgy of Hours," book review by Doris Murphy of Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book edited by Arthur Paul Boers, Barb Nelson Gingerich, Eleanor Kreider and Mary H. Schertz (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 2005).
• "Ritual as My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account", by John Rempel
• "Are Mennonites Sacramental?" by Tom Finger, The Mennonite, Sept. 21, 2004
• "The Nonviolent Eucharist," by Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (PDF version here)
• "Do This in Remembrance of Me" by Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (PDF only)
• "In the Belly of a Paradox: Reflections on the Dubious Service of Reflecting on Service," by Gerald W. Schlabach (article links discipleship and sacraments) 

Other resources for ecumenical dialogue

• With the Spirit's Daring: Interchurch Guide for Local Settings
  from the Interchurch Relations Committee of Mennonite Church USA
• Fernando Enns' survey of Mennonite ecumenism -- book review by Helmut Harder
  (also see MWC news release on Enns' lectures)
• “Right Remembering in Anabaptist-Lutheran Relations” -- report of Lutheran-Mennonite dialogue in the United States, February 2002 through March 2004