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Author: Stuart Murray
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780968554333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStuart Murray provides an exploration of ways in which 16th-century Anabaptists read and understood the Bible and the contemporary significance of their approach.
Author: Harold S. Bender
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 0836197224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Stuart Murray
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0836199847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClick here to read the introduction to The Naked Anabaptist. In churches and kitchens and neighborhood centers across the world, communities of Jesus-followers are crafting a vision of radical service, simple living, and commitment to peace. Many are finding a home in a Christian tradition almost five centuries old: Anabaptism. Who are the Anabaptists? What do they believe? Where did they come from? What makes them different from other Christians? And can you become an Anabaptist without leaving your own church? Follow Stuart Murray as he peels back the layers to reveal the core convictions of Anabaptist Christianity, a way of following Jesus that challenges, disturbs, and inspires. Glimpse an alternative to nationalistic, materialistic, individualistic Christian faith. If you are seeking a community of authentic discipleship, heartfelt worship, sacrificial service, and radical peacemaking, consider this your invitation. This new edition features: Voices and stories from North America and the global church. Updated and expanded definition and discussion of Christendom. Updated resource section. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Author: Benjamin W. Redekop
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0801876737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounded in part on a rejection of "worldly" power and the use of force, Anabaptism carried with it the promise of redemptive power. Yet the attempt to banish worldly power to the margins of the Christian community has been fraught with dilemmas, contradictions, and, at times, blatant abuses of authority. In this groundbreaking book, Benjamin W. Redekop, Calvin W. Redekop, and their coauthors draw on classic and contemporary thinking to confront the issue of power and authority in the Anabaptist-Mennonite community. From the power relationships of the sixteenth-century Peasants' War to issues of contemporary sexuality, the topics of Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition are sure to interest a wide audience. Contributors: Stephen C. Ainlay, College of the Holy Cross • J. Lawrence Burkholder, President Emeritus, Goshen College • Lydia Neufeld Harder, Toronto School of Theology • Joel Hartman, University of Missouri • Jacob A. Loewen, missionary, retired • Dorothy Yoder Nyce, Writer and former Assistant Professor, Goshen College • Lynda Nyce, Bluffton College • Wesley Prieb (deceased), former dean, Tabor College • Benjamin W. Redekop, Kettering University • Calvin W. Redekop, Conrad Grebel College, emeritus • James M. Stayer, Queen's University, Ontario
Author: Balthasar Hubmaier
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-03-08
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781496180001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey denounced the kind of reformation proposed by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin as a halfway affair. They believed in a national state church no more than they believed in the Roman church. To them religion was the intimate concern of each individual soul, and the church was a voluntary society of the regenerate, who had been saved by faith in Christ and were living obediently to Christ's principles.
Author: Thomas N. Finger
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-02-26
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780830878901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive volume Thomas N. Finger takes on the formidable task of making explicit the often implicit theology of the Anabaptist movement and then presenting, for the sake of the welfare of the whole contemporary Christian church, his own constructive theology. In the first part Finger tells the story of the development of Anabaptist thought, helping the reader grasp both the unifying and diverse elements in that theological tradition. In the second and third parts Finger considers in more detail the major themes essential to Anabaptist theology, first considering the historic views and then presenting his own constructive effort. Within the Anabaptist perspective Finger offers a theology that highlights the three dimensions of its salvific center: the communal, the personal and the missional. The themes taken up in the final part form what Finger identifies as the convictional framework of that center; namely, Christology, anthropology and eschatology. This book is a landmark contribution of Anabaptist theology for the whole church in biblical, historical and contemporary context.
Author: Robert Friedmann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579102104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dennis R. Edwards
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 1513806149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jesus Way series helps readers encounter big questions about the reign of God in the world. Concise and practical books deeply rooted in Anabaptist theology. Start small.
Author: Michael G. Baylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-10-31
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521379489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1991 collection of writings by early Reformation radicals illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking.
Author: Alan J. Hauser
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 0802842747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. Written by internationally renowned scholars, this multivolume work comprehensively treats the many different methods of interpretation, the many important interpreters from various eras, and the many key issues that have surfaced repeatedly over the long course of biblical interpretation.--This second installment contains essays by fifteen noted scholars discussing major methods, movements, and interpreters in the Jewish and Christian communities from the beginning of the Middle Ages until the end of the sixteenth-century Reformation. The authors examine such themes as the variety of interpretive developments within Judaism during this period, the monumental work of Rashi and his followers, the achievements of the Carolingian era, and the later scholastic developments within the universities, beginningin the twelfth century.
