Final Flashcards
(49 cards)
Where do the Amish fall on the Anabaptist spectrum from world-rejecting and world-embracing?
world rejecting
Which Amish affiliation does not allow the use of any technology?
Swartzentruber
Which Amish affiliation allows some technology for work and personal use including, cash registers, weed eaters, and bikes?
Old Order Amish
Which Amish affiliation allows the most technology use, but members still are not allowed to own or drive cars?
New Order Amish
Who was the founder of the Amish?
Jacob Amman
When did the Amish first emerge as a distinct Anabaptist group?
1693
What were the issues that led to the emergence of the Amish?
Jacob Amman thought that the church was too worldly and that the church didn’t offer enough discipline to members.
What is the Dordrecht Confession of Faith (Eighteen Articles)?
a Mennonite confession of faith produced by Dutch Mennonites in 1632. The guidelines in the Dordrecht Confession apply only to church members
What is the Ordnung?
creates rules and regulations within each district
How does the Ordnung show up in Amish baptismal vows?
one must submit themselves to the rules and regulations of the church
How would the Amish respond to the question of why they let their church have so much authority over their lives (i.e., why they submit to the church’s authority)?
“The community is wiser than the individual so individuals should submit to communal wisdom” and the “submission and humility are good, self-assertion and pride are bad.” They choose to follow the Dordrecht Confession which is biblically based.
What is an Amish church district?
Districts are geographically based congregations of church members in close proximity.
How many Amish people are there in a given church district?
150
How many Amish church districts are there?
2600
What are affiliations?
Affiliations are districts that share similar Ordnungs.
Generally speaking, what has been the ethnic make-up of Anabaptists in North America?
White/ European
Why has the Anabaptist church traditionally been so white/European?
A combination of Mennonite migration from Europe in 1683 and the Anabaptist tendency to marry with the church has led to the Anabaptist church remaining largely white/ European.
How has the ethnic make up of the Anabaptist church changed in the past 75 years?
It has become more diverse
What does it mean to say that race is socially constructed?
Different people will give different definitions and race classifications as a result of their world view.
How do the two examples provided in class (the Amish men on the work crew, and Ben Franklin’s quotations non-Anglo Saxons) illustrate the social construction of race?
Both the example of the men on the work crew and Ben Franklin’s list of races give two distinctly different ways of classifying race.
In what way did Frederick Douglass see the complicity of Christianity and racism?
Frederick Douglass began to question how Christians could be slave masters.
What distinction did he make between “the Christianity of Christ” and “the Christianity of this land?”
Douglass says that the Christianity of Christ is “pure” and “impartial” but that the Christianity of this land is “corrupt” and “hypocritical.”
How does Drew Hart define racism in Trouble I’ve Seen?
racism isn’t always mean people doing things; it’s not always overt racial prejudice. There are all these other forces at work in our society and in our lives that we’re sometimes unconscious of.
What does Drew Hart mean by the epistemological clarity of the oppressed, and what is his evidence for that?
People on the bottom are better situated to know what is real, and what they know to be reality is closer to the real thing than are the perceptions of those in a dominant social position. Hart uses the idea of “separate but equal” to prove his point.
