Radical Christian Writings A Reader

This volume, which fills a gap in the current literature, will be essential reading for third-year undergraduates and above in Biblical studies.

Andrew Bradstock works for the United Reformed Church, London.

Christopher Rowland is the Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Queen's College, University of Oxford.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Christianity: Radical and Political

xvi

Justin (ca. 100-ca. 165) and Cyprian (ca. 300)

1

(3)

Justin, First Apology (mid-second century)

2

(1)

Cyprian, Epistle I to Donatus (third century)

2

(2)

The Acts of Paul and Thecla (second century)

4

(8)

Pelagius (late fourth and early fifth centuries CE)

12

(22)

On the Christian Life

13

(2)

On Riches

15

(19)

Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) and Peter Olivi (1248-1298)

34

(4)

Joachim of Fiore, Liber Figurarum (twelfth century)

36

(1)

Peter Olivi on Poverty and the Role of St. Francis (thirteenth century)

36

(2)

Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)

38

(2)

The Mirror of Simple Souls (ca. 1306)

39

(1)

John Ball (d. 1381)

40

(2)

Sermon

41

(1)

William Langland (1330-1387)

42

(9)

Piers Plowman, Passus XVII (fourteenth century)

43

(8)

Jan Hus (ca. 1372-1415)

51

(5)

Letters of John Hus (fifteenth century)

52

(4)

Lollard Sermon for Christmas Day on Luke 2:1-14 (early fifteenth century)

56

(3)

Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

59

(3)

Compendium of Revelations (1495)

60

(2)

Defending the Indians

62

(7)

Antonio de Montesinos (fl. 1510), Advent Sermon (1511)

63

(1)

Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566), Historia de las Indias

63

(6)

Argula von Grumbach (ca. 1492-1554)

69

(6)

To the University of Ingolstadt (1522)

70

(5)

Thomas Muntzer (1489?-1525)

75

(6)

Vindication and Refutation (1524)

76

(5)

William Tyndale (1494-1536)

81

(3)

The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)

82

(2)

Early Anabaptist Writings

84

(10)

A Hymnic Form of Anna Jansz's Testimony to Her Son (1539)

86

(3)

The Answer of some who are called Anabaptists (1536?)

89

(2)

Account of Our Religion (ca. 1545)

91

(3)

Peter Riedemann

The Family of Love

94

(11)

Introduction to the Holy Understanding of the Glass of Righteousness (ET 1574)

96

(4)

Hendrick Niclaes

Terra Pacis. A True Testification of the Spiritual Land of Peace

100

(5)

Hendrick Niclaes

Early Baptist Worship

105

(2)

Letter from Hugh and Anne Bromehead (1609)

106

(1)

Thomas Helwys (ca. 1550-ca. 1616)

107

(2)

A Short Declaration of the Mistery of Iniquity (1612)

108

(1)

The Levellers

109

(5)

The freeman's freedom vindicated (1646)

110

(1)

John Lilburne

The Putney Debates (1647)

111

(1)

Colonel Thomas Rainborow

A Petition of Women (1649)

111

(3)

John Milton (1608-1674)

114

(6)

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

115

(3)

Eikonoklastes (1649)

118

(1)

Sonnet XV (1655)

119

(1)

Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676)

120

(18)

Truth Lifting Up Its head Above Scandals (1648)

122

(1)

The New Law of Righteousness (January 1649)

123

(5)

The True Levellers Standard Advanced (April 1649)

128

(3)

A Watch-Word to The City of London and the Armie (August 1649)

131

(1)

A New-yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie (January 1650)

132

(1)

Fire in the Bush (March 1650)

132

(2)

The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)

134

(1)

An Additional Digger Text from Iver, Buckinghamshire: A Declaration (May 1650)

135

(3)

Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672)

138

(6)

A Fiery Flying Roll (1649)

139

(5)

Anna Trapnel (ca. 1654)

144

(3)

The Cry of a Stone (1654)

145

(2)

Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole

147

(6)

To the Priests and People of England (1655)

148

(5)

Anne Wentworth (ca. 1679)

153

(4)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ (ca. 1679)

154

(3)

James Nayler (ca. 1617-1660)

157

(5)

Behold You Rulers (1658)

158

(4)

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

162

(3)

The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

163

(2)

William Blake (1757-1827)

165

(7)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794)

167

(3)

Vala, or The Four Zoas (ca. 1800)

170

(1)

Preface to Milton (1804)

170

(2)

John Woolman (1720-1772)

172

(4)

Some Considerations on the Keeping of the Negroes (1754)

173

(3)

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883)

176

(4)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

180

(6)

Address to the First Women's-Rights Convention (1848)

181

(2)

The Woman's Bible (1895-8)

183

(3)

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

186

(3)

Disestablishment (1877)

187

(2)

Joseph Arch (1826-1919)

189

(4)

Autobiography (1898)

190

(3)

Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)

193

(3)

Our Neighbours (1911)

194

(2)

Padraig Pearse (1879-1916)

196

(3)

The Fool

197

(1)

The Rebel

198

(1)

Frank Weston (1871-1924)

199

(2)

Address to the Second Anglo-Catholic Congress (1923)

200

(1)

The Barmen Declaration (1934)

201

(3)

Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

204

(5)

The Long Loneliness and other writings by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

205

(4)

The Worker-Priests

209

(7)

Priest and Worker (1948)

209

(1)

Henri Perrin

Wage-Workers in industry as an expression of faith (1965)

209

(7)

John Rowe

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

216

(5)

The Presence of the Kingdom (1951)

217

(4)

Alan Ecclestone (1904-1992)

221

(8)

The Parish Meeting at Work (1953)

222

(7)

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

229

(6)

Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

230

(5)

Camilo Torres (1929-1966)

235

(3)

Love and Revolution (ca. 1965)

236

(2)

Dorothee Soelle (1929- )

238

(5)

Credo from Political Evensong (1968)

239

(1)

Mary and Martha (1990)

240

(3)

The Solentiname Community (1966-1977)

243

(4)

Nicaraguan Peasant Mass (1970s)

244

(3)

Steve Biko (1946-1977)

247

(3)

Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity (1973)

248

(2)

Stanley Hauerwas on John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)

250

(5)

Messianic Pacifism (1973)

251

(4)

Stanley Hauerwas

William Stringfellow (1928-1985)

255

(6)

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973)

256

(5)

Ian M. Fraser

261

(4)

Christian Grassroots Communities in Europe (1980)

262

(3)

Carter Heyward

265

(7)

Liberating the Body (1980)

266

(6)

Herbert McCabe (1926-2001)

272

(5)

The Class Struggle and Christian Love (1980)

273

(4)

Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

277

(3)

The Political Dimension of the Faith from the Perspective of the Poor (1980)

278

(2)

John Vincent (1929- )

280

(5)

OK. Let's be Methodists (1984)

281

(4)

The Kairos Document (1985)

285

(20)

Carlos Mesters

305

(3)

God's Project

306

(2)

The Interpretative Method of ``Unlock''

308

(3)

Theology from the Perspective of ``Third-World'' Women

311

(4)

Women's Oppression: A Sinful Situation (1988)

312

(1)

Aruna Gnanadason

Struggle to be the Sun Again (1990)

313

(2)

Chung Hyun Kyung

Sigqibo Dwane

315

(6)

Theology and the Context (1989)

315

(6)

Sara Maitland

321

(6)

Radegund from Angel and Me (1995)

322

(5)

Kenneth Leech (1939- )

327

(5)

The Rebel Church In the Back Streets - Where Are We Now? (1996)

328

(4)

Daniel Berrigan (1921- )

332

(3)

Jeremiah, the World, the Wound of God (1999)

332

(3)

Gustavo Gutierrez (1928- )

335

(8)

The Task and Content of Liberation Theology (1999)

336

(7)

Thomas Hanks

343

(4)

Matthew and Mary of Magdala: Good News for Sex Workers (2000)

344

(3)

Index

347

(3)

Scriptural Citations

350

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