What are the most significant points at issue between the Reformed and Mennonite communions? Baptism, peace and church-state relations. Is there a way forward? In the hope that there may be, the contributors to this book attempt to clear the way to closer relations between Reformed and Mennonites by careful scholarly discussion of the traditionally disputed questions.

The papers gathered here were presented at the second phase of the international dialogue between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational) and the Mennonite World Conference. There are Reformed and Mennonite studies of the three topics, together with the responses of a philosopher of religion, a sociologist, a systematic theologian and a church historian. In the Introduction the dialogue is set in its historical and contemporary ecumenical context, and the Conclusion, drafted by the dialogue participants, has been forwarded to the two world bodies for their consideration and action. This important work will be relevant to all future scholarly research into the growing debate between Reformed and Mennonite communions.

Ross T. Bender is Professor of Christian Education at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, Indiana, and a former President of the Mennonite World Conference.

Alan P.F. Sell is the incumbent of the Chair of Christian Thought in the University of Calgary, Canada, and a former Theological Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and congregational).

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Alan P.F. Sell is the incumbent of the Chair of Christian Thought in the University of Calgary, Canada, and a former Theological Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and congregational).

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"It is impossible in a brief review to report adequately on the wide-ranging and challenging scholarship represented by these papers; all of the contributions were of high caliber.... This compiliation can be warmly recommended to anyone interested in ecumenics, ethics, church history, and theology. The papers are well-documented and there is an index. The book itself is well-produced and well-edited."

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"The book is an excellent waymark, showing where two North American religious traditions stand in the closing decades of the twentieth century."

The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. LXVII, No. 1, January 1993