Keeping Salvation Ethical: Mennonite and Amish Atonement Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century

In this pioneering work, Weaver analyzes late-nineteenth-century Mennonite and Amish thought on atonement, an issue of concern for all Christians. He maintains that these Anabaptists did have a theology, displayed in their lived faith and in their writings, but it was threatened by the satisfaction theory of atonement.Here is a unique comparative study of theology across Mennonite and Amish denominational lines. The author demonstrates how eight writers tied nonresistance and atonement together, in contrast to American evangelical theology.