T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism

✍ Scribed by Brian C. Brewer (editor)

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 649
• Series: T&T Clark Handbooks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By utilizing the contributions of a variety of scholars – theologians, historians, and biblical scholars – this book makes the complex and sometimes disparate Anabaptist movement more easily accessible. It does this by outlining Anabaptism's early history during the Reformation of the sixteenth century, its varied and distinctive theological convictions, and its ongoing challenges to and influence on contemporary Christianity.

T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism comprises four sections: 1) Origins, 2) Doctrine, 3) Influences on Anabaptism, and 4) Contemporary Anabaptism and Relationship to Others. The volume concludes with a chapter on how contemporary Anabaptists interact with the wider Church in all its variety.

While some of the authorities within the volume will disagree even with one another regarding Anabaptist origins, emphases on doctrine, and influence in the contemporary world, such differences represent the diversity that constitutes the history of this movement.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Origins
Chapter 1: The Polygenesis of the Anabaptists
Chapter 2: Early Swiss Anabaptism
Chapter 3: The German Peasants’ War
Chapter 4: Waldshut and South German Reforms
Chapter 5: Anabaptism in Central Germany
Chapter 6: Anabaptists in Moravia
Chapter 7: Münster and the “New Jerusalem”
Chapter 8: Anabaptists in the Netherlands
Chapter 9: Spiritualist Anabaptists
Chapter 10: Anabaptists in Prussia
Chapter 11: Women in Early Anabaptism
Part II: Doctrine
Chapter 12: Ecclesiology
Chapter 13: Anticlericalism
Chapter 14: The State
Chapter 15: Nonviolence: Anabaptists against the Sword
Chapter 16: Baptism
Chapter 17: The Lord’s Supper
Chapter 18: Anabaptist Confessions of Faith: Diversity, Development, and Enduring Patterns
Chapter 19: Community of Goods and Economics
Chapter 20: Suffering and Martyrdom
Chapter 21: The Bible
Chapter 22: Pneumatology
Chapter 23: Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience
Chapter 24: Discipleship
Chapter 25: Eschatology
Part III: Influences
Chapter 26: Medieval Scholastic Theology
Chapter 27: Erasmus
Chapter 28: Thomas Müntzer
Chapter 29: Karlstadt
Chapter 30: Huldrych Zwingli
Chapter 31: Martin Luther
Chapter 32: Spiritualists
Part IV: Anabaptism Today
Chapter 33: Contemporary Anabaptists in North America
Chapter 34: Neo-Anabaptism among Contemporary Christians
Chapter 35: Global Anabaptism and Ecumenism
Contributors
Index