Building Communities of Compassion

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Building Communities of Compassion is written by Willard M. Swartley and published by Herald Press (VA). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0836190947 (ISBN 10) and 9780836190946 (ISBN 13).

This pathbreaking volume edited by Willard M. Swartley and Donald B. Kraybill offers the first sustained and scholarly assessment of the history, theology, and practice of Mennonite mutual aid. Long noted for their peacemaking, Mennonites have been less known for those efforts to care for each other whose 20th-century expressions have roots in the Anabaptism of the 1500s. Here Mennonite scholars from a variety of disciplines highlight this Mennonite distinctive. Carefully and sometimes colorfully, 13 authors tell the intriguing story of the rise and transformation of Mennonite aid.