Anabaptist reparations after 500 years

Mennonites and the Doctrine of Discovery

Abstract

Anabaptists must move beyond asking who physically forced Indigenous tribes off the land, or who owned enslaved people. Such a narrow focus is used to aid white Anabaptists in skirting historical complicity. The real challenge today is to perceive the comprehensive project that was the Doctrine of Discovery and how Anabaptists benefited and advantaged themselves through their missional participation in a diseased imagination.