Concern for Church Mission and Spiritual Gifts

“We are indebted to Laura Schmidt Roberts for drawing our attention to these essays calling for reform and renewal not only for Mennonite churches but for other Christian traditions as well. Building on their critical engagement with the work of their predecessors, contemporary theologians Hyung Jin Kim Sun and Andrés Pacheco Lozano astutely add vital new perspectives and calls to action for churches in relation to culture, interculturality, mission, and spirituality.”


—Jeremy M. Bergen, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo





“The essays republished in this volume show an emerging Mennonite Church intelligentsia in the mid-twentieth century struggling to apply a Bible- and community-centered discipleship ethic to developments in the global church. Both the continuing pertinence and the limitations of these historical pieces are beautifully brought forth in responses by Hyung Jin Kim Sun and Andrés Pacheco Lozano, whose calls for intercultural church and Spirit-led, self-critical ‘mission from the margins’ deserve wide discussion.”


—Jamie Pitts, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary