Radical Reformation studies : essays presented to James M. Stayer / edited by Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stayer, James M.

Packull, Werner O., 1941-

Dipple, Geoffrey

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Anabaptists.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1999.

Contents:

Part 1 Polygenesis and beyond? New research into Anabaptism

1 The decline of Hutterite community of goods / Taira Kuratsuka 11

2 A Reformed-Anabaptist dialogue in Augsburg during the early 1530s / Werner O. Packull 21

3 Harmonizing the Scriptures: Swiss Brethren understandings of the relationship between the Old and New Testament during the last half of the sixteenth century / John D. Roth 35

4 The 'Perfection of Christ' reconsidered: the later Swiss Brethren and the sword / C. Arnold Snyder 53

Part 2 Anabaptists, witches and Reformation radicalism

5 'A common future conversation': a revisionist interpretation of the September 1524 Grebel Letters to Thomas Muntzer / Hans-Jurgen Goertz 73

6 Sebastian Franck and the Munster Anabaptist kingdom / Geoffrey L. Dipple 91

7 Andreas von Karlstadt as a humanist theologian / Bill McNiel 106

8 Between the devil and the inquisitor: Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs in the sixteenth-century Netherlands / Gary K. Waite 120

Part 3 The theory and practice of writing histories of radical or non-conformist religious groups

9 Stepchildren of the Reformation or heralds of modernity: Ernst Troeltsch on sixteenth-century Anabaptists, sectarians and Spiritualists / Sonia Riddoch 143

10 Crossing Max Weber's 'Great Divide': comparing early modern Jewish and Anabaptist histories / Michael Driedger 157

11 Are Mormons Anabaptists? The case of the Mormons and heirs of the Anabaptist tradition on the American frontier, c. 1840 / Clyde R. Forsberg Jr 175

James M. Stayer: Publications 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0754600327

OCLC:

42002649