Stoltzfus, Grant M. (1916-1974) - Revision history

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Jlynch at 21:27, 21 September 2023

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	The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions he sent to the Peace Section of Mennonite Central Committee.		The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions he sent to the Peace Section of Mennonite Central Committee.

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	''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Sep 12 p. 11		''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Sep 12 p. 11

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			'''IT IS HARD''' to believe that Grant Stoltzfus is dead. Fifty-eight is young to die. Surely he had more books to write. Yet what is cannot be changed. I learned to know Grant a quarter of a century ago when he was editor of Mennonite Community magazine, predecessor of Christian Living and Ruth Carper (Eitzen) and I were doing a children's page for it entitled "The Young Community." During the summer of 1950 at Mennonite Publishing House at Scottdale, Pa., we often exchanged ideas. He introduced me to the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch. At his suggestion I read Tolles' "Meetinghouse and Countinghouse" and Theodore Dreiser's powerful and disturbing novel "The Bulwark." He prodded me to think about the term "the simple life" and questioned whether wealth was not as much an evil as war.

			That summer I learned to know his gifted and capable wife Ruth, founder of the Heart to Heart radio program, with whom I also worked some years later. He encouraged her to launch out and do whatever God wanted her to do. My path did not cross his again until October, 1969, when we both attended an MCC Peace Section-sponsored seminar in Washington, D. C. Whereas he had been "a young and fearless prophet," he was now maturer, mellower, but a prophet still, deeply interested in justice and peace. How appropriate that memorial gifts are to be given to the Peace Section. His family and colleagues at EMC will miss him deeply. All of us have been enriched through the legacy of his life and writing.

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Jlynch at 20:37, 19 September 2023

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	'''HARRISONBURG, VA.''' — Dr. Grant M. Stoltzfus, 58, a church history professor for 17 years at Eastern Mennonite College, died Sunday morning, July 21, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg. He suffered a heart attack Saturday night at his home near Harrisonburg.		'''HARRISONBURG, VA.''' — Dr. Grant M. Stoltzfus, 58, a church history professor for 17 years at Eastern Mennonite College, died Sunday morning, July 21, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg. He suffered a heart attack Saturday night at his home near Harrisonburg.

	[[Image:stoltzfus_grant_1974.jpg\|~~200px~~\|right]] An authority on church-state relations and war-peace issues, Dr. Stoltzfus was engaged in writing a book at the time of his death on the origin and development of alternative service for conscientious objectors to war.		[[Image:stoltzfus_grant_1974.jpg\|150px\|right]] An authority on church-state relations and war-peace issues, Dr. Stoltzfus was engaged in writing a book at the time of his death on the origin and development of alternative service for conscientious objectors to war.

	Last January the EMC professor led a study tour of the Soviet Union, where the group of college students and other persons focused especially on church-state relations.		Last January the EMC professor led a study tour of the Soviet Union, where the group of college students and other persons focused especially on church-state relations.

Jlynch at 20:15, 19 September 2023

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Jlynch at 19:44, 14 September 2023

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	''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Aug 1 p. 7		''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Aug 1 p. 7 <br>
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	''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1 ~~Aug~~ 1974 p. 7		''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Aug 1 p. 7
			''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 1974 Sep 12 p. 11

	Birth date: 1916		Birth date: 1916


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