The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century AnabaptismWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1996 - 332 pages Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism by noted church historian William R. Estep offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of teachings and heritage of this important stream in Christianity. This third edition of The Anabaptist Story has been substantially revised and enlarged to take into account the numerous Anabaptist sources that have come to light in the last half-century as well as the significant number of monographs and other scholarly works on Anabaptist themes that have recently appeared. Estep challenges a number of assumptions held by contemporary historians and offers fresh insights into the Anabaptist movement. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Birth of Anabaptism | 9 |
Meteors against the Night | 29 |
A Superlative Witness | 57 |
Truth Is Immortal | 77 |
From Zollikon to Augsburg | 107 |
Of Moravia and the Community of Goods | 127 |
Menno Simons and Dutch Anabaptism | 151 |
Anabaptism and Reformation Theology | 177 |
Baptism and Discipleship | 201 |
Church and State | 237 |
Across the Seas and through the Years | 267 |
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321 | |
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