Sources Of Swiss Anabaptism

Sources Of Swiss Anabaptism
Author: Konrad Grebel
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
Total Pages: 826
Release: 1985-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The 170 letters and documents in this volume portray how Conrad Grebel, a bright young Swiss patriot, became a fervent, influential leader of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement. The editor calls the book “a drama with five acts, prologue, and epilogue” with a cast of 107 characters. The main characters are Grebel himself and Huldrych Zwingli, the vicar at the Grossmünster in Zurich. The climax of the drama comes in January 1525 when Grebel performs the first rebaptisms, signaling the founding of a new church and the rejection of the Anabaptists by Zwingli. “These letters and documents are not published for scholars only,” states the editor, “but for all seekers and believers.” This is the fourth volume in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute of Mennonite Studies.

The Sources of Swiss Anabaptism

The Sources of Swiss Anabaptism
Author: Leland Harder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2019
Genre: Anabaptists
ISBN: 9780874862638

The dramatic story of the genesis of the Anabaptist movement, told directly through the letters of its leaders and other primary documents. The 170 letters and documents in this volume portray how Conrad Grebel, a bright young Swiss patriot, became a fervent, influential leader of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement. The editor calls the book "a drama with five acts, prologue, and epilogue" with a cast of 107 characters. The main characters are Grebel himself and Huldrych Zwingli, the vicar at the Grossmünster in Zurich. The climax of the drama comes in January 1525 when Grebel performs the first rebaptisms, signaling the founding of a new church and the rejection of the Anabaptists by Zwingli. "These letters and documents are not published for scholars only," states the editor, "but for all seekers and believers." This is the fourth volume in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute of Mennonite Studies.

Anabaptism in Outline

Anabaptism in Outline
Author: Walter Klaassen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2019
Genre: Anabaptists
ISBN: 9780874862614

This anthology provides the best introduction to the core beliefs and foundational principles of Anabaptism. This comprehensive book compiles the writings and statements of thirty-seven sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Selections are arranged under topics such as baptism, the church, nonresistance, Jesus the Word, government, the cross, suffering, discipleship, and relations to other Christians. This is the third volume in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute of Mennonite Studies.

The Anabaptist Story

The Anabaptist Story
Author: William R. Estep
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802808868

Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism by noted church historian William R. Estep offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of teachings and heritage of this important stream in Christianity. This third edition of The Anabaptist Story has been substantially revised and enlarged to take into account the numerous Anabaptist sources that have come to light in the last half-century as well as the significant number of monographs and other scholarly works on Anabaptist themes that have recently appeared. Estep challenges a number of assumptions held by contemporary historians and offers fresh insights into the Anabaptist movement.

A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700

A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700
Author: John Roth
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004154027

This handbook of Anabaptism and Spiritualism provides an informative survey of recent scholarship on the Radical Reformation, from the 1520s to the end of the eighteenth century. Each chapter offers a narrative summary that engages current research and suggests directions for future study.

Later Writings of the Swiss Anabaptists, 1529-1592

Later Writings of the Swiss Anabaptists, 1529-1592
Author: C. Arnold Snyder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2017-04
Genre: Anabaptists
ISBN: 9781926599571

"This book contains sixteenth century writings originating with the religious reforming group called Anabaptists, located in Switzerland. The majority of the writings are previously unpublished and untranslated."--

The Anabaptist Vision

The Anabaptist Vision
Author: Harold S. Bender
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Total Pages: 29
Release: 1960
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0836197224

The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. In it, Harold S. Bender defines the spirit and purposes of the original Anabaptists. Three major points of emphasis are: the transformation of the entire way of life of the individual to the teachings and example of Christ, voluntary church membership based upon conversion and commitment to holy living, and Christian love and nonresistance applied to all human relationships.

T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism

T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism
Author: Brian C. Brewer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567689506

By utilizing the contributions of a variety of scholars – theologians, historians, and biblical scholars – this book makes the complex and sometimes disparate Anabaptist movement more easily accessible. It does this by outlining Anabaptism's early history during the Reformation of the sixteenth century, its varied and distinctive theological convictions, and its ongoing challenges to and influence on contemporary Christianity. T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism comprises four sections: 1) Origins, 2) Doctrine, 3) Influences on Anabaptism, and 4) Contemporary Anabaptism and Relationship to Others. The volume concludes with a chapter on how contemporary Anabaptists interact with the wider Church in all its variety. While some of the authorities within the volume will disagree even with one another regarding Anabaptist origins, emphases on doctrine, and influence in the contemporary world, such differences represent the diversity that constitutes the history of this movement.

Profiles of Anabaptist Women

Profiles of Anabaptist Women
Author: C. Arnold Snyder
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2010-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1554587905

During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged — that of the Anabaptist movement. Profiles of Anabaptist Women provides lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose to risk prosecution and martyrdom to pursue this unsanctioned religion — a religion that, unlike the established religions of the day, initially offered them opportunity and encouragement to proselytize. Derived from sixteenth-century government records and court testimonies, hymns, songs and poems, these profiles provide a panorama of life and faith experiences of women from Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Austria. These personal stories of courage, faith, commitment and resourcefulness interweave women’s lives into the greater milieu, relating them to the dominant male context and the socio-political background of the Reformation. Taken together, these sketches will give readers an appreciation for the central role played by Anabaptist women in the emergence and persistence of this radical branch of Protestantism.