Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer

by Packull,Werner O.

• ISBN13: 9780754600329
• ISBN10: 0754600327
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism, re-examining the 'polygenesis model' of Anabaptism articulated by Stayer, Packull and Depperman. Part Two deals with the connections between Anabaptists and other Reformation dissenters, their marginalisation as social groups and their relations with the intellectual movements of the age. The final section addresses historiographic and comparative issues of writing the history of marginalised groups, investigating some preconceptions which influence historians' approaches to Anabaptism and their implications for understanding other religious groups.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part One Polygensis and beyond? New research into Anabaptism
The decline of Hutterite community of goods	11	(10)
Taira Kuratsuka
A Reformed-Anabaptist dialogue in Augsburg during the early 1530s	21	(14)
Werner O. Packull
Harmonizing the Scriptures: Swiss Brethren understandings of the relationship between the Old and New Testament during the last half of the sixteenth century	35	(18)
John D. Roth
The `Perfection of Christ' reconsidered: the later Swiss Brethren and the sword	53	(20)
C. Arnold Snyder
Part Two Anabaptists, witches and Reformation radicalism
`A common future conversation': a revisionist interpretation of the September 1524 Grebel Letters to Thomas Muntzer	73	(18)
Hans-Jurgen Goertz
Sebastian Franck and the Munster Anabaptist kingdom	91	(15)
Geoffrey L. Dipple
Andreas von Karlstadt as a humanist theologian	106	(14)
Bill McNiel
Between the devil and the inquisitor: Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs in the sixteenth-century Netherlands	120	(23)
Gary K. Waite
Part Three The theory and practice of writing histories of radical or non-conformist religious groups
Stepchildren of the Reformation or heralds of modernity: Ernst Troeltsch on sixteenth-century Anabaptists, sectarians and Spiritualists	143	(14)
Sonia Riddoch
Crossing Max Weber's `Great Divide': comparing early modern Jewish and Anabaptist histories	157	(18)
Michael Driedger
Are Mormons Anabaptists? The case of the Mormons and heirs of the Anabaptist tradition on the American frontier, c. 1840	175	(17)
Clyde R. Forsberg Jr
Publications	192	(5)
James M. Stayer
Index	197