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During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most
significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged -- that of
the Anabaptist movement. "Profiles of Anabaptist Women" provides
lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose
to risk prosecution and martyrdom to pursue this unsanctioned
religion -- a religion that, unlike the established religions of
the day, initially offered them opportunity and encouragement to
proselytize.
Derived from sixteenth-century government records and court
testimonies, hymns, songs and poems, these profiles provide a
panorama of life and faith experiences of women from Switzerland,
Germany, Holland and Austria.
These personal stories of courage, faith, commitment and
resourcefulness interweave women's lives into the greater milieu,
relating them to the dominant male context and the socio-political
background of the Reformation. Taken together, these sketches will
give readers an appreciation for the central role played by
Anabaptist women in the emergence and persistence of this radical
branch of Protestantism.
Diverse primary sources bring out unique characteristics of one
branch of the Radical Reformation. The South German/Austrian branch
of the Anabaptist family was unique in its mystical origins,
spiritualist emphases, fascination with the end times, and communal
forms of Anabaptism. These newly translated sources--from
influential pre-Anabaptist writings by JĂśrg Haugk von JĂźchsen and
Hans Hergot, through writings of Hans Hut and confessions of
Ambrosius Spitelmaier in the 1520s, to the experiences of the
Hutterite missionary Hans Schmidt in 1590--shed light on this part
of the Anabaptist world. The collection includes testimonies of
Anabaptist leaders, writings by Protestant clerics, and testimonies
and hymns from Anabaptist women including Katharina Hutter and
Helena von Freyberg. This is the tenth 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.
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.
C. Arnold Snyder's biography and analysis of the thought of Michael
Sattler, noted Anabaptist leader and author of The Schleitheim
Articles. Paperback, 264 pages.
Das "Handbuch Evangelische Spiritualitat" erarbeitet in drei Banden
die Vielfalt und den Reichtum evangelischer Spiritualitat. So
werden die verschiedenen Facetten des wesentlich von Luthers
Entdeckung der Rechtfertigung des Sunders allein aus Gnaden
bestimmten Glaubens in das offentliche Gesprach eingebracht und
Wege zu seiner erfahrungsmassigen Aneignung eroffnet. Band 1
(Geschichte) widmet sich den historischen Wurzeln evangelischer
Spiritualitat in der Reformation und ihren unterschiedlichen
Gestaltungsformen bis heute. Band 2 (Theologie) konzentriert die
evangelische Lehre auf ihre spirituelle Relevanz. Band 3 (Praxis)
entfaltet die reiche Praxis evangelischer Spiritualitat in der
Okumene und Ortgemeinde bis hin zu Kunst und sozialer
Verantwortung. Im ersten Band des Handbuches liefern renommierte
Autorinnen und Autoren historische Beitrage mit Gegenwartsbezug und
Praxisrelevanz. An Beispielen von Personen, Gruppen und Stromungen
wird die evangelische Spiritualitatsgeschichte erarbeitet.
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