Anabaptists and the Sword
Anabaptists and the Sword

Author: James M. Stayer

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 172520181X

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Anabaptists and the Sword (1972; revised edn. 1976) is the first book to challenge the consensus, dating from the seventeenth century, that sixteenth-century Anabaptists were nonresistants, or Christian pacifists. While recognizing the importance of the nonresistance tradition among Anabaptists, the book gives equal attention to more militant elements in Anabaptism. It is also pioneering in giving attention to Anabaptist practice as well as Anabaptist teaching on this subject.

Anabaptists and the Sword
Anabaptists and the Sword

Author: James M. Stayer

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1592440193

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Anabaptists and the Sword (1972; revised edn. 1976) is the first book to challenge the consensus, dating from the seventeenth century, that sixteenth-century Anabaptists were nonresistants, or Christian pacifists. While recognizing the importance of the nonresistance tradition among Anabaptists, the book gives equal attention to more militant elements in Anabaptism. It is also pioneering in giving attention to Anabaptist practice as well as Anabaptist teaching on this subject.

Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion
Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion

Author: Gerald J. Mast

Publisher: Pandora Press U. S.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931038348

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Through rhetorical criticism of Anabaptist confessional argument during the Reformation era, the book describes the relationship between separation and peace articulated by Anabaptist leaders and writers in the decades following the adoption of the Schleitheim Brotherly Union in 1527. By exploring this rhetoric of peaceable Anabaptist persuasion, the book provides resources for all nonconformists who seek to make peace through spiritual practice and public argument. Includes extensive notes, bibliography, and index.

Only the Sword of the Spirit
Only the Sword of the Spirit

Author: Jacob Abram Loewen

Publisher: Kindred Productions (c) 1997

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780921788447

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Only the Sword of the Spirit reconstructs the development of Menno Simon's "anabaptist Vision and methodically traces its evolution through the entire northern stream of Mennonites in Holland, Prussia, North Germany, Russia, and North America....It concludes with an appeal for the recovery of a relevant version of Menno Simon's 16th century vision for our own times.o

On the Sword
On the Sword

Author: Balthasar Hubmaier

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781496174048

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Since I always, in this and my other teachings and deeds, desire justice and right, if I err I will gladly permit myself to be banished and punished, as is just. But, according to the Scripture, let them bear witness against the evil; but if I err not, wherefore do they smite me, wherefore do they brand me? For though my enemies (of whom I have as many as the old scaly serpent) are never willing to let me be justly judged, I am not so. If my God and Lord must suffer that they do offence and violence to his word, I must also suffer, yet (God be praised) not as an evil-doer. Let every one judge as he desires to be judged by the Lord.

The Anabaptists
The Anabaptists

Author: Hans-Jurgen Goertz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1135088675

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The Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of their political and religious significance, their views, and their social setting within the wider context of the Reformation. Particular attention is paid to the role and experience of women and of 'ordinary' Anabaptists in addition to those of the educated elite. Whilst the focus of the book is on Germany, extensive coverage is also given to Anabaptism in England, Switzerland, the Netherlands and elsewhere. This English edition includes a new introduction which considers the historiographical context of the book. The opening chapter has also been expanded to include a section on the emergence of Anabaptism in England. The Anabaptists has been fully revised since its publication in German, and takes account of the most recent historiography on the subject. It also includes a selection of primary sources together with a full listing of important Anabaptist works.