Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources
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Overview
This volume is designed to make the primary writings of sixteenth-century Anabaptists more accessible in the English language. It contains 274 selections from 37 Anabaptist writers, divided into 17 categories of theology and church life.
- Contains selections from 37 Anabaptist writers
- Provides English translations of Anabaptist writing
- Focuses on theology and church life
- Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation
- The Work of God in Man
- The Holy Spirit
- Cross, Suffering, and Discipleship
- The Church
- Church Order
- The Bible
- Baptism
- The Lord’s Supper
- Church Discipline
- Economics
- Government
- Nonresistance
- The Oath
- Religious Toleration
- Relations to Other Christians
- Eschatology
Top Highlights
“that the Scriptures are the Christian’s final authority” (Page 140)
“Although it is good to read in the prophets and in the books of the kings and Moses it is not really necessary. One finds everything in the New Testament.” (Page 148)
“This is the problem with the evangelicals. It is to receive Christ rightly and to learn that in Christ there is an upright life.” (Page 62)
“baptism was viewed as a sign that the old life of sin had been abandoned and a new life of following Christ begun.” (Page 162)
“A genuine preacher must receive the true Word of God in the abyss of his soul” (Page 143)
The book is a useful tool for pastors, teachers, and for individuals who have a special interest in getting more closely in touch with the primary experiences and thinking of the sixteenth-century Anabaptists.
—Festival Quarterly
There are still relatively few sixteenth-century Anabaptist materials available in the English language, though their number is increasing. This book will facilitate specific theological study of issues which might be impossible for the uninitiated reader.
—C.J. Dyck
Belongs in all academic and better public libraries.
—Religious Studies Review
An invaluable tool.
—Studies in Religion
- Title: Anabaptism in Outline
- Editor: Walter Klaassen
- Publisher: Herald Press
- Publication Date: 1981
- Pages: 356
- Christian Group: Anabaptist
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Theology