T.D. Regehr Biography Focuses on Lives and Work of Johannes and Tina Harder
Canadian Mennonite University announces a new CMU Press publication, A Generation of Vigilance: The Lives and Work of Johannes and Tina Harder by T.D. Regehr, to be launched on October 16 in Yarrow, B.C., on October 17 in Abbotsford, B.C., and on October 22 at the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Winnipeg, MB.
“This biography is being published with support from Yarrow Research Committee in British Columbia,” says CMU Press General Editor Harry Huebner, who also serves as Professor Emeritus of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University. “We’re delighted that Dr. Regehr took on this project to tell the story of Johannes and Tina Harder.”
“Johannes and Tina Harder were, for several decades, the most prominent and influential Mennonite Brethren church and conference leaders in British Columbia,” says author T. D. Regehr. Regehr, who is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Saskatchewan and the author of Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970: A People Transformed (University of Toronto Press), was deeply interested in the Harders’ story, in part because it shows “a process of religious accommodation similar to that experienced by many other immigrant groups and also by others churches when faced with rapid change.”
The Harders’ leadership contribution was not without controversy. The couple held high standards of church discipline and were known to maintain strict codes of Christian conduct. “They provided much appreciated leadership during a time of very rapid change as Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union tried to establish themselves in Canada,” Regehr says
With this book, Regehr hopes “to allow those who experienced one style of leadership, in Yarrow and elsewhere, both to appreciate what was good and to understand the significance of changes which seemed better suited to the environment of the new world.”
A Generation of Vigilance: The Lives and Work of Johannes and Tina Harder (CMU Press) is available from the CMU Bookstore at 500 Shaftesbury Blvd. Winnipeg, MB, cmubookstore@cmu.ca or from local bookstores. The cost is $29.95.
CMU Press is an academic publisher of scholarly, reference, and general interest books at Canadian Mennonite University. Books from CMU Press address and inform interests and issues vital to the university, its constituency, and society. Areas of specialization include Mennonite studies, and works that are church-oriented or theologically engaged.
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is an accredited Christian university offering undergraduate degrees in the arts, music, music therapy, theology, and church ministries and master degrees in theological studies and Christian ministry. CMU is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).
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