Alan Kreider

Alan Kreider

• Birth:    November 1941
  
• Death:   March 8, 2017
  
• Nationality:   American
• Education:   Goshen College, Indiana (BA 1962), Princeton University (1962–63), Heidelberg University (1963–64), Harvard University (AM 1965) (PhD 1971), University of London (1966–68)
  
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• Books Written
•     English Chantries: The Road to Dissolution (Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, 1979; reprinted Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2012) - North American Conference on British Studies, Jon Ben Snow Prize, Honorable Mention (1980)
•     Jean Michel Hornus, It Is Not Lawful For Me to Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence, and the State (translated with Oliver Coburn) (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1980)
•     Journey Towards Holiness: A Way of Living for God's People (Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1986; Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1987) - The Other Side Magazine Book of the Year (1987); Silver Angel Award for Religion in Media (1987); translated into Japanese (2001)
•     Handling Problems of Peace and War: An Evangelical Debate (with John Stott and Jerram Barrs, ed. J. Andrew Kirk) (Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1988)
•     'Abolishing the Laity: An Anabaptist Perspective on Ordination,' in Paul Beasley-Murray, ed., Anyone for Ordination? (Tunbridge Wells: Monarch, 1993), 84-111
•     Worship and Evangelism in Pre-Christendom (Cambridge: Grove Books, 1995); translated into Korean (2003)
•     Culture and the Nonconformist tradition (edited with Jane Shaw) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999)
•     The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999; reprinted Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2006)
•     Becoming a Peace Church (with Eleanor Kreider) (London: New Ground published in association with HHSC Christian Press, 2000); translated into Korean (2003)
•     Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland (edited with Stuart Murray) (Waterloo, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2000)
•     Christianity and the Culture of Economics (edited with Donald A. Hay) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001)
•     The Origins of Christendom in the West (ed. and contributor) (Edinburgh; New York: T&T Clark, 2001)
•     Composing music for worship (edited with Stephen Darlington) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003)
•     'Military Service in the Church Orders', in Journal of Religious Ethics vol. 31, no. 3 (2003), 415-442 
•     'Peacemaking in Worship in the Syrian Church Orders', in Studia Liturgica (2004), 177-190
•     A Culture of Peace: God’s Vision for the Church (with Eleanor Kreider and Paulus Widjaja) (Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, 2005); translated into German (2008); translated into Hindi (2013)
•     'Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift', Mission Focus Annual Review 11, Supplement (2003), 158-177; also International Bulletin of Missionary Research vol. 29, no. 2 (2005), 59-68
•     'Baptism and Catechesis as Spiritual Formation,' in Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton, eds., Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2007), 170-206
•     'Violence and Mission in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: Lessons for Today,' International Bulletin of Missionary Research vol. 31, no. 3 (2007), 125-133
•     'They alone know the right way to live: The Early Church and Evangelism,'in Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman, eds., Ancient Faith for the Church's Future (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 169-186.
•     Social Holiness: A Way of Living for God’s Nation (foreword by Dale M. Coulter, a new edition of Journey Towards Holiness) (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2008)
•     Resident But Alien: How the Early Church Grew (6 DVD presentations on 2 discs) (Harpenden, Herts, UK: Great Commission Distribution Ltd, 2009; Seattle, WA: YWAM Resources, 2009)
•     Worship and Mission After Christendom (with Eleanor Kreider) (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster Press, 2009; Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2011); translated into Japanese (2015)
•     'Converted but Not Baptized: Peter Leithart’s Constantine Project,' Mennonite Quarterly Review vol. 85, no. 4 (2011), 573-615; in John. D. Roth, ed., Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2013), 25-67
•     'Mission and Violence: Inculturation in the Fourth Century – Basil and Ambrose,' in John Corrie and Cathy Ross, eds., Mission in Context: Explorations Inspired by J. Andrew Kirk (Abingdon: Ashgate, 2012), 201-216
•     Catéchèse, baptême et mission: Leçons d’hier pour L’́Êglise aujourd’hui. Textes rassemblés par Michel Sommer (Charols, France: Éditions Excelsis, 2013)
•     'The Significance of the Mennonite-Catholic Dialogue: A Mennonite Perspective,' in Gerald W. Schlabach and Margaret Pfeil, eds., Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013), 20-31
•     The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016)
• Biography
• an American Mennonite historian. He was the American Professor Emeritus of Church History and Mission at the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. His main interests were mission, worship, peace, and ecclesiastical history (especially the early church and Anabaptism). From Wikipedia
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He gave the the Believers Church Lectures at Fresno Pacific University, California, (2002)