Edsel Burdge

Edsel is a researcher and historian at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietistic Studies at Elizabethtown College. He is co-author with Samuel L. Horst of Building on the Gospel Foundation: The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Washington County, Maryland, 1730?1970 (Herald Press, 2004) and holds an M.A. from Villanova University.

Peace Demonstrated

What does peace look like when demonstrated? Mr. Burdge sketches the stories of conscientious objectors in World War I.

Peace Deployed

We all want peace in ourselves and in others around us. How can we nuture attitudes and practices for peace?

Peace Defined

What are the theological and spiritual foundations for peace?

Interpreting the Past: The Interaction of God and Man

God deals with us in outward, visible ways in order to convert us to spiritual life. Edsel discusses the meaning of the incarnation.

Mennonite Great Awakening: Part 2

In part 2, Edsel continues the examination of the Mennonite experience in the "Great Awakening." He describes the rise of a Mennonite revivalism with the work of John S Coffman and others.

Mennonite Great Awakening: Part 1

In large part, we are today the product of what happened during the "Great Awakening," says Edsel. He discusses salvation and ethics in Peter Burkholder's Nine Reflections, available here. How we are saved is not divorced from...

Panel Discussion on Mennonite History

How do we reconcile our traditional stance on nonresistance with all the unrest, splits, and hatred in our churches today? How can I defend my nonvoting position in the face of the push to get Christians to vote? Can political...

A Biblical Anabaptist View of History

Edsel discusses the revisions of Anabaptist history, and the proper place of our ideological commitments in historiography. Edsel examines the role of Schleitheim Confession in defining Swiss Brethren Anabaptism. In addition, he...