The Reverend Dr Alan Fetter Kreider was born at Goshen, Indiana on 8 November 1941. He was ordained at the London Mennonite Fellowship in 1975. He has been Associate Professor of Church History and Mission at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary since 2004. His main interests are peace and ecclesiastical history. Goshen, Indiana is a town of 29,383 people (As of the 2000 census). ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) is an accredited Christian seminary in Elkhart, Indiana affiliated with Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. Besides serving Mennonites from North America and other continents, AMBS is approved by the United Methodist Church for training of its ministers. ...

Education

Alan Kreider was educated at Goshen College, Indiana (BA 1962), Princeton University (1962-63), Heidelberg University (1963-64), Harvard University (AM 1965) (PhD 1971), and the University of London (1966-68). He has been the recipient of a Danforth Fellowship (1962-68), a Harvard Travelling Fellowship (1966-67), and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1972-74). In 1995 he was accorded the status of Master of Arts in the University of Oxford and his name was added to the Register of Congregation. Goshen College Goshen College is a Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; also known as simply University of Heidelberg) was established in the town of Heidelberg in the Rhineland in 1386. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... A congregation is the assembly of senior members of a university, especially in the United Kingdom. ...

Appointments

Goshen College

Alan Kreider was Assistant and Associate Professor of History at Goshen College 1968-1983. Goshen College Goshen College is a Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. ...

London

He spent 1974-2000 in England as a Missionary with the Mennonite Board of Missions. He was Warden and Director of the London Mennonite Centre 1974-1991 and Elder of Wood Green Mennonite Church, London 1975-1991. In 1979 he became an Adjunct Lecturer in Church History at London Bible College, where he remained until 1983.

Manchester

He spent 1991-95 in Manchester as an Adjunct Lecturer in Church History at the University of Manchester and as Theologian in Residence at the Northern Baptist College. During this period he was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Eastern Mennonite Seminary (1991) and at the Bible College of New Zealand (1993). In 1993 he became Book Review Editor for Anabaptism Today and continued to serve in that role until 2000. The University of Manchester in Manchester, England, was formed by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ...

Oxford

In 1995 he moved to Oxford, where he remained until 2000, as both Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at Regent’s Park College and a member of the Oxford University Theology Faculty. Regents Park College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Degrees available Undergraduate BA Theology BA Philosophy and Theology BA (Hons) Theology BA (Hons) Philosophy and Theology CertTh, BTh, and BTh (Hons) (usually for ordinands) Graduate PGDip Applied Theology (usually for ordinands) PGDip Theology MTh Applied Theology (usually for ordinands) MSt Theology MSt Philosophical Theology MSt Study of Religion MSt...

Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

In 1999 he became an Adjunct Member of the Faculty of the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, becoming Associate Professor of Church History and Mission in 2004. Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) is an accredited Christian seminary in Elkhart, Indiana affiliated with Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. Besides serving Mennonites from North America and other continents, AMBS is approved by the United Methodist Church for training of its ministers. ...

Other Activities

Alan Kreider is a prolific public speaker. He has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983). In 1997 he preached at the Mennonite World Conference in Calcutta and in 2001 he delivered three speeches in Japan to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese Mennonite Church. Marshal of the RAF sleeve/shoulder insignia Marshal of the Royal Air Force was the highest rank in the Royal Air Force. ... Marshal of the Royal Air Force Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie KT GCB CBE DSO DFC (born 8 July 1920, died 29 January 1985) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. ... All Souls Church All Souls Church All Souls Church Interior All Souls Church is an Evangelical Anglican Church in the heart of the West End of London, situated at the top end of Regent Street, next to the BBC. As well as the core church membership, many hundreds of visitors... David Garro Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, PC (born 31 March 1941), is a British Conservative politician. ... Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The coat of arms for the Cambridge Union Society, which shares much in common with the coat of arms for the University of Cambridge. ... The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is a body that attempts to bring fellowship and communication to diverse Anabaptist bodies across the world. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...

Alan Kreider (sometimes with his wife, Eleanor) has given the Staley Lectures at Goshen College (1987 and 2001), the Laing Lecture at London Bible College (1994), the Tyndale Christian Doctrine Lecture at the Tyndale Fellowship, Cambridge (1996), the Schrag Lectures at Messiah College, Pennsylvania (2001), the Menno Simons Lectures at Bethel College, Kansas (2001), the Believers Church Lectures at Fresno Pacific University, California, (2002) and the Annual Lecture at the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute, Sydney (2005). Goshen College Goshen College is a Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Messiah College is a Christian liberal arts college in the rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania. ... Bethel College can refer to: Bethel College (Indiana) Bethel College (Kansas) Bethel University (Minnesota) which was called Bethel Colleg until 2004. ... Fresno Pacific University (Originally Pacific Bible Institute) was founded in 1944 by the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. ...

Alan Kreider has been a member of the Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society (1978-1983), Evangelical Peacemakers (1983-1992), the Anabaptist Network Steering Group (1991-2000), the Missiology of Western Culture Project History Group (1992-97), and the Mennonite-Roman Catholic International Dialogue (2000).

Publications

• Jean Michel Hornus, It is not lawful for me to fight: early Christian attitudes toward war, violence, and the state (translated with Oliver Coburn) (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1980)
• English chantries: the road to dissolution (Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, 1979) - North American Conference on British Studies, Jon Ben Snow Prize, Honorable

Mention (1980)

• War: Christian attitudes (Nottingham: n.p., 1983)
• Time to choose: a GrassRoots study guide on the nuclear arms race from a Christian Perspective (et al.) (Lytchett Minster, Poole, Dorset: Celebration, 1983)
• Handling Problems of Peace and War: An Evangelical Debate (with John Stott and

Jerram Barrs, ed. J. Andrew Kirk) (Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1988)

• Journey Towards Holiness: A Way of Living for God's People (Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1986; Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1987) - The Other Side Magazine Book of the Year (1987); Silver Angel Award for Religion in Media (1987); translated into Japanese (2001)
• Worship and evangelism in pre-Christendom (Cambridge: Grove Books, 1995)
• Culture and the Nonconformist tradition (edited with Jane Shaw) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999)
• The change of conversion and the origin of Christendom (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999)
• Becoming a peace church (with Eleanor Kreider) (London: New Ground published in association with HHSC Christian Press, 2000) - translated into Korean (2003)
• Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland (edited with Stuart Murray) (Waterloo, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2000)
• Christianity and the culture of economics (edited with Donald A. Hay) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001)
• The origins of Christendom in the West (ed.) (Edinburgh; New York: T&T Clark, 2001)
• Composing music for worship (edited with Stephen Darlington) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003)
• 'Military Service in the Church Orders', in Journal of Religious Ethics vol. 31, no. 3 (2003), 415-442
• 'Peacemaking in Worship in the Syrian Church Orders', in Studia Liturgica (2004), 177-

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• A Culture of Peace: God’s Vision for the Church (with Eleanor Kreider and Paulus Widjaja) (Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, 2005)
• 'Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift', in International Bulletin for Missionary Research (April 2005)