Consultation

Holding Fast to the Confession of our Hope
The Confession of Faith Ten Years Later Consultation

Held at AMBS, June 8-10, 2006

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Papers presented are available in PDF form from the link of each title.

trevor george hunsberger bechtel: Savouring our words

Jeremy Bergen: Confession (in) a divided church

Gerald Biesecker-Mast: Maintaining more of less in regard to this or that point

Susan Biesecker-Mast: A Genealogy of CFMP

Peter Blum: Response to Susan Biesecker Mast

Sheldon Burkhalter: Differing with a confession: Individual and corporate conscience

Ron Byler: Voices of the church panel discussion

Mark Diller Harder: Pastoral response to Gordon Zerbe plenary address

Robert Enns: Where have all the children gone?

Tom Finger: A confession of faith as a living letter

Lin Garber: A gay Mennonite looks at CFMP

Linda Gehman Peachey: The way of the cross

Ray Gingerich: Scripture and the missional church

Matt Hamsher: The church as holy nation of God

Helmut Harder: Reception of the CFMP in the Canadian context

Gene Hartman: Presentation for panel of pastors

Michele Hershberger: Voices of the Church (panel discussion)

James Hurd: Shape of high fertility in a traditional Mennonite population

Janeen Bertsche Johnson: Hymns in Hymnal: A Worship Book that most closely correspond to articles in the Confession of Faith

Douglas Kaufman: Accountable Mennonite catholicity

Hannah Kehr: Evolving face of two-kingdom theology in Mennonite confessions of faith

Ron Kennel: A confession about the confession of faith (Presentation for panel of pastors)

Eileen Klassen-Hamm: Response to Jeff Wright

David Kratz Mathies: Holding fast to principles of drawing boundaries of exclusion

Norman Kraus: Reflections on the use of scripture in article 4 of CFMP

Nelson Kraybill: Welcome and introduction to confession of faith consultation

Stephen Kriss: Confessional, Missional and Pastoral (see also James Lapp presentation below)

Karl R. Landis: Defining meaningful core identity for Mennonites

James Lapp: Confessional, Missional and Pastoral (see also Stephen Kriss presentation above)

Sarah Lapenta-H: Draw near together with creativity and grace

Jason R. Moyer: Policy Governance MC USA

Cal Redekop Leaving Anabaptism in the context of Christian diversity

Angela Reed: A faithful practice: Spiritual direction and the CFMP

Bradley Roth: Christendoms and confessions--a self-confidently orthodox future

Joel Schmidt The 1995 Lord's Supper article

Regina Shands Stoltzfus: Response to Gordon Zerbe

Steven Siebert: Modernity's long shadow

Peter Smith: The temptation to scapegoating

Klaudia Smucker: Panel of pastors remarks

Robert J. Suderman: The role and impact of the CFMP in the life of MC Canada

Mark Thiessen Nation: Salvation in an age of moralistic therapeutic deism

Tomomi Naka: The spirit of giving

J. Denny Weaver: CFMP as a peace church confession

Jeff Wright: Teaching position or conversaton starter

April Yamasaki: Response to Tom Finger

Gordon Zerbe: Canon, Christ, and confession: The Bible and the CFMP