War, Peace, and Nonresistance: A classic statement of a Mennonite peace position in faith and practice

Guy Hershberger made a significant contribution to the development of peace theology in the (Old) Mennonite Church. Perhaps the greatest service of this book is to explain clearly the centuries—old doctrine of nonresistance as understood by Mennonites in the mid—1900s.

Although nonresistance was held as a doctrine since the early days of Anabaptism in the sixteenth century, Hershberger helped expand the concept. Many of the new ideas that Hershberger posed were explorations of the social imp...