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The culture of Bethel is one that encourages students to try new things and to think critically.
Sarah Unruh ’12

2000's

2009

Scott Holland, Professor of Theology & Culture at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Indiana
    Prophets, Poets & Pragmatists: The Historic Peace Churches and Public Theology
        Public Theology as Seeking Cultures of Peace
        Entering Whitman’s America: A Theopoetics of Public Life
        The Poetics of Peace
        Prophetic Vision, Poetic Voice and Pragmatic Solidarity

2008

James Stayer, Emeritus Professor of History from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
    Anabaptist/Mennonite Pluralism
        Anabaptist Beginnings—July 1523-February 1527: Grebel and Hubmaier; Mantz and Sattler
        The Prophetic Political Dissent of the Anabaptists: Then and Now
        Pilgram Marpeck and the Austerlitz Brethren: A "Disappeared" Anabaptist Denomination
        Menno and Münster

2007

Rudy Wiebe, Novelist and Retired Professor from Edmonton, Alberta
    Tracking the Story as History:
        Between the Stones and the Ocean
        Flour and Yeast
        Where the Truth Lies
        Tracking Omniscience: the Story as Gift

2006

Helmut Harder, retired General Secretary of Mennonite Church Canada and former Professor of Theology at Canadian Mennonite Bible College, Winnipeg, Manitoba
    Mennonites and Catholics Conversing on the Way
        Sharing Our Stories (mp3 audio)
        Integrating Our Peace Witness (mp3 audio)
        Comparing Our Theologies (mp3 audio)
        Healing Our Divisions (mp3 audio)


2005

Jaime Prieto, Latin American Biblical University, San Jose, Costa Rica
    Latin American Mennonite History
        El carácter poligenético de los Menonitas en América Latina—The Polygenetic Character of Mennonites in Latin America
        La fecundidad de las tradiciones orales en la construcción de la Historia Anabautista—The Abundance of Oral Tradition in the Construction of Anabaptist History
        Protagonismo de la mujer en la Historia Menonita de América Latina—The Participation of Women in the History of Mennonites in Latin America
        Misionología y la eclesiologia anabautista: Desafíos a la construcción de la paz—Missiology and Anabaptist Ecclesiology: Challenges to Building Peace

2004

Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Faith and Humanity: How Do We Tell the Story of the Reformation?
        Of Founding Fathers and Origins: Writing History from the Present
        Textual Communities: Theologians and Evangelicals
        The 1960s and Social Movements: Magistrates, Anabaptists, and Women
        Incarnation: "True Christians" and the Diversity of Faith

2003

Jean Janzen, Fresno, California
    Elements of Faithful Writing
        Mud: The Mound That Saves Us
        Water: Wailing in the Shower
        Fire and Air: Breathing the Light
        Text: Marking the Stone

2002

C. Arnold Snyder, Conrad Grebel College
    The Rich Legacy of Anabaptist Spirituality
        Anabaptism: A Protestant, Lay Monastic Renewal Movement (mp3 audio)
        Praying the Anabaptist Bible: Lectio divina in an Anabaptist Mode (mp3 audio)
        Not a Baptism of Adults, But a Baptism of the Reborn (mp3 audio)
        From Spirit to Letter: Anabaptist Spirituality and Mennonite Piety (mp3 audio)

2001

Alan Kreider, Mennonite Board of Missions/London Mennonite Center
    Listening to the Early Church: A Way Forward for Contemporary Anabaptists?
        Can Anabaptists Learn from the Early Church? part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)
        Initiation: Becoming a Resident Alien (mp3 audio)
        Worship: Shaping an Intriguing People (mp3 audio)
        The Way of Peace in a Militarized Empire part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)

2000

Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College
    Eighteenth Century Origins of Evangelicalism
        The Emergence of Evangelical Christianity
part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)
        Who Are Today's Evangelicals and What Are They Up To?
part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)
        Evangelicalism as "Revolutionary" Faith part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)

        Early Evangelicals and the Wars of the 18th Century part 1(mp3 audio) part 2(mp3 audio)