Radicals & reformers : a survey of global Anabaptist history

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Radicals & reformers : a survey of global Anabaptist history / Troy Osborne.

Summary:

"With Bibles and baptism, a movement was born. From renegade gatherings of Christian believers in the 1500s to a global communion of more than 2.1 million members, the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement has been marked by faithfulness and failure, continuity and conflict, radicalism and reformation. In this engaging history, Radicals and Reformers traces the origins and development of the Anabaptist and Mennonite movements from their beginnings in Europe through their spread across the globe. In this new authoritative introduction to Anabaptist history, historian Troy Osborne reflects on the ways that Anabaptists have defined their identity in new settings and in response to new theological, intellectual, geographic, and political contexts. Drawing from current scholarship and a range of written and visual sources, this book provides an overview of how Mennonites from Zurich to Zimbabwe have adapted to or resisted the world around them"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780836199888
ISBN: 083619988X
ISBN: 9781513813325
ISBN: 1513813323
Physical Description: 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Harrisonburg, Virginia : Herald Press, [2024]
Copyright: © 2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: "Good and Right Order" : Late Medieval Christendom -- Repentance and Reform : Radicals in Swiss Lands -- South German Anabaptists : Mysticism and Community of Goods -- Apocalypticism in the North : Melchoir, Munster, and the Mennonites -- The Earth is the Lord's : Seeking the Peace of the City -- Renewal and Reform in the Seventeenth Century -- Movement and Modernity : the Nineteenth Century -- To the Ends of the Earth : Anabaptist Missions -- Age of Cataclysm : 1914-45 -- A Transformational Era : 1945-present -- Continuity and Change : Anabaptists in Africa -- Conversion and Adaptation : Anabaptists in Asia -- Migration and Mission : Latin American Anabaptists -- Renewed Identities and New Realities in the West -- Faith in Changing Times : Evangelism, Anabaptism, and the Old Orders in the Twentieth Century.