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This scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about an
early leader of the Hutterites, a pacifist communal Anabaptist
group, sheds light on a persecuted religious minority during the
Reformation. This comprehensive, annotated collection of Jakob
Hutter’s letters and related documents begins with an extensive
biography of Hutter and his wife Katharina, based on recent
archival research. This introduction serves to contextualize the
Hutterite movement, a communal and pacifist Anabaptist group that
emerged as part of the Radical Reformation in sixteenth-century
Tyrol and Moravia. The main text of the book opens with Hutter’s
eight surviving letters, newly translated directly from the
seventeenth-century codices where they have been preserved. As the
leader of a scattered, persecuted movement, Hutter wrote pastoral
letters of encouragement and admonition to various congregations in
Tyrol and Moravia. The second chapter consists of material from
Hutterite chronicles that describe Hutter’s life and context.
Some of these are previously unpublished; in all cases, new
translations have been made from the original codices. The third
chapter is a collection of reports on government interrogations of
Anabaptists who describe Hutter’s missionary activity, typically
written by a state official during an interrogation process which
often involved torture. Chapter four is a compilation of writings
by fellow Hutterites written during Hutter’s life and in the
decade after his death, which show the importance of Hutter’s
life and teachings. The fifth chapter includes internal
correspondence between government authorities trying to suppress
the Anabaptist movement. The accounts offer insight into the
government’s perspective on the significance of Hutter and the
Anabaptist communities in his spheres of activity. Additional
documents relating to Hutter’s death and legacy from both within
and outside of the Hutterite tradition are included in a final
chapter. This meticulously researched volume, peer-reviewed for
inclusion in the Classics of the Radical Reformations series, is a
valuable contribution to the scholarship of a volatile and fruitful
chapter of church history.
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Mennonites in Dialogue (Hardcover)
Fernando Enns, Jonathan Seiling; Foreword by Cesar Garcia
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