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 century has remained in relative
obscurity. One reason for this is that Swiss Anabaptists after 1530
communicated their ideas by circulating handwritten writings rather
than by printing books. This present volume contains a selection of
those writings that were being copied and circulated among the
later Anabaptists in Switzerland. The text that dominates the
present collection, both in terms of length and complexity, is the
massive 466-page Codex 628, copied in 1590 and containing a wide
sampling of material considered significant by the Swiss
Anabaptists at the end of the century. Readers of this volume thus
have the opportunity to peruse, in translation, significant
archival holdings that document the development of Swiss Anabaptist
thought over the course of the sixteenth century. These writings
reveal a maturing religious and social movement whose members
continued to reflect biblically on their call to discipleship while
living in a world that designated all adult baptizers heretics and
disobedient, dangerous citizens. This is the thirteenth volume 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 Mennonite Studies.
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