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 | Translated and edited by Walter… | 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… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Balthasar Hubmaier | The complete works of one of the most significant theologians of the Reformation.This book contains the complete writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, including his discussion of three marks of a true church: water baptism of adults, the Lord’s Supper, and fraternal admonition.This is volume 5 in the Classics of the Radical Reformation… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | The volume brings together early statements of belief from across the Radical Reformation.A representative collection of confessions produced by Anabaptist groups from 1527 to 1660. Included are confessions from the Swiss Brethren, the Marpeck circle, the Rhinelanders, and various Mennonite communities in the north. This collection attends to the earliest… | Anabaptist History & Thought | ||
 | Jakob Hutter | This scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about an early leader of the Hutterites, a pacifist communal Anabaptist group, sheds light on a persecuted religious minority during the Reformation.This comprehensive, annotated collection of Jakob Hutter’s letters and related documents begins with an extensive biography of Hutter and his wife… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | C. Arnold Snyder | Primary sources reveal that despite severe persecution and expulsion, an underground Anabaptist movement continued to flourish in its birthplace, Switzerland.The story of Anabaptist origins in Switzerland is well known. By contrast, the life and thought of the Anabaptists who continued to live in Switzerland over the last two-thirds of the sixteenth… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Dorothy Sayers | What must a person believe to be a Christian? Dorothy Sayers lays out age-old doctrines without prettying-up or watering-down. She brings them vividly to life by showing how the Bible, history, literature, and modern science fit together to make religion not only possible but necessary in our time. So whether… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology | |
 | Stephen Russell | Read a sample!We live in a world wracked with violence and hatred. Does that mean that every act of violence must be met with an equal or greater counterblow?Stephen Russell asserts that the biblical message calls for forgiveness and reconciliation in place of hatred, vengeance, and fear. Overcoming Evil God’s… | Books ⋅ Anabaptist History & Thought ⋅ Christian Living ⋅ Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Ethics ⋅ Topical Studies | |
 | Peter Riedemann | The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.While in prison from 1540 to 1542, Riedemann wrote to the Lutheran ruler, Philip of Hesse, explaining the Hutterite goal of a renewed community and dispelling popular misconceptions. The Hutterites quickly accepted Riedemann’s confession as their… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Daniel H. Williams | A learned and uniquely constructive book that gently urges “suspicious” Christians to reclaim the patristic roots of their faith. Written to help Protestant Christians recognize the early church fathers as an essential part of their faith, this book is addressed primarily to the evangelical, independent, and free church communities, who… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology | |
 | Michael Sattler | Writings by and about an early leader in Anabaptism show how the movement coalesced around questions of community, nonviolence, and religious liberty.This is volume 1 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… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Francoise Briquel Chatonnet | Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic… | Church History | |
 | Dirk Philips | The complete works of a Franciscan friar turned Anabaptist theologian and a founder of the Mennonite church.This book contains all the known writings of early Anabaptist leader Dirk Philips (1504-1568), translated into English from Philips’s original 1564 Dutch volume. Annotations and introductions make it useful to both general readers and scholars… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Pilgram Marpeck | This extensive collection of Pilgram Marpeck’s writing is the most complete English volume of this popular early Anabaptist’s writings. The book includes Marpeck’s Confession of 1532 and The Admonition of 1542, the longest and most detailed statement of the Anabaptists on baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Also included are sixteen of his letters… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Sam Allberry | In What God Has to Say About Our Bodies, Sam Allberry explains that all of us are fearfully and wonderfully made, and should regard our physicality as a gift. He offers biblical guidance for living, including understanding gender, sexuality, and identity; dealing with aging, illness, and death; and considering the physical… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Doctrine of Humanity | |
 | James M. Jr. Hamilton | The Bible recounts a single story – one that began at creation, encompasses our lives today, and will continue until Christ’s return and beyond. In What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton introduces us to this narrative, helping us understand the worldview of the biblical writers so that we can read the Old… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology |