MARC Record from marc_claremont_school_theology

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050 00 $aBX8116$b.G73 1996
082 00 $a289.7/73$220
084 $a11.55$2bcl
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aGraber Miller, Keith,$d1959-
245 10 $aWise as serpents, innocent as doves :$bAmerican Mennonites engage Washington /$cKeith Graber Miller.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c©1996.
300 $axiii, 314 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-300) and index.
505 0 $a1. Engaging the quiet -- 2. Bumping into the state -- 3. Bedding and bundling in Washington -- 4. Speaking the truth quietly -- 5. Reporting from the field -- 6. Speaking multiple languages -- 7. Engaging wisely and innocently.
520 $aIn July 1968, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) opened an office in Washington, D.C., for monitoring the actions of the federal government's various branches. Given American Mennonites' long history of noninvolvement in political affairs, this shift toward engagement was dramatic indeed. In this in-depth study, Keith Graber Miller shows how the church's distinctive traditions of pacifism, humility, and service have informed and shaped the nature of its activities in Washington. Graber Miller argues that Mennonites have both influenced the national policymaking debate and have themselves been influenced by their increasing exposure to it. Wise As Serpents, Innocent as Doves not only explores the twentieth-century transformations among American Mennonites but illuminates the larger issues of religious lobbying in the nation's capital. Graber Miller suggests that the Mennonites have helped redefine what it means to be a lobbyist. Because the Mennonites' numbers are too few to make them a politically significant force, he argues, their only credibility in Washington lies in an astute and accurate analysis of how the world is and in the integrity of their witness to the truth as they see it.
590 $bArchive
610 20 $aMennonite Central Committee$xHistory.
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651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
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650 17 $aPolitieke activiteit.$2gtt
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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