Anabaptist View of the Church

This book was originally published in 1952, as the Prize Essay of the Frank S. Brewer Fund of the American Society of Church History, as Volume VIII of “Studies in Church History.” Contents: Preface to Revised Edition, Introduction, The Quest for the Essence of Anabaptism, Radicalism in the Centers of Reform, Revolution, An Unusual Case; The Tolerance of Philipp of Hesse, Who Were The Evangelical Taufer?, The Fall of the Church: Religious Primitivism as a Pattern of Thought, Elements in the Idea of the Fall, Uses of the Idea of the Fall, Analysis of the Idea of the Fall, Origins of the Idea in the Left Wing,, The Restitution of the True Church, The Problem of Continuity, What are the Marks of the True Church? The Great Commission, The Anabaptist Understanding of the Command, The Opposition of the Reformers to Literal Obedience, The Recapture of Early Christian Missionary Zeal, Quiet Eschatology, The Verdict of History, The Changing Reputation of the Anabaptists, Former Treatments of Anabaptism and the Source Problem, Current Developments in Interpretation, In Conclusion.