An Unusual Case: The Tolerance of Philipp of Hesse
p. 32
Refusal to Put Dissenters to Death
p. 33
Attitude to Church Reform
p. 34
Success of Philipp's Policy
p. 35
Who were "The Evangelical Taufer"?
p. 36
A Convenantal People
p. 37
The Problem of Classification
p. 43
The Fall of the Church
p. 46
Religious Primitivism as a Pattern of Thought
p. 48
Anabaptism: A Form of Christian Primitivism
p. 46
Sources of Sixteenth-Century Primitivism
p. 50
The Fall of the Church
p. 55
Elements in the Idea of the Fall
p. 57
Glorification of the Heroic Age
p. 58
After the Golden Age, a Fall
p. 61
Uses of the Idea of the Fall
p. 62
Chronological Aspects
p. 62
Cultural Aspects: The Marks of the Fallen Church
p. 64
Analysis of the Idea of the Fall
p. 72
Periodization of History
p. 75
Eschatology
p. 76
Origins of the Idea in the Left Wing
p. 77
The Restitution of the True Church
p. 79
The Problem of Continuity
Where did the Restitution Begin?
p. 80
A Different View of Tradition
p. 82
What are the Marks of the True Church?
p. 82
Believer's Baptism
p. 83
Spiritual Government
p. 86
Community
p. 95
The Lord's Supper
p. 98
The Authority of Civil Government; Passive Obedience
p. 101
The Great Commission
p. 109
The Anabaptist Understanding of the Command
p. 111
Central to Their Testimony
p. 111
Relevant to the Life of the Common Man
p. 113
The Opposition of the Reformers to Literal Obedience
p. 114
Command exhausted in Apostolic Age
p. 114
Maintaining an Intact Christendom
p. 115
The Recapture of Early Christian Missionary Zeal
p. 117
The Method
p. 117
The Heroic Prototype
p. 119
Economic Factors of Importance
p. 123
Quiet Eschatology
p. 127
Eschatology a Common Ground for Revolutionaries and Nonresistants
p. 128
A Theology of Suffering
p. 132
The Anabaptists and Natural Law
p. 134
The Verdict of History
p. 135
The Changing Reputation of the Anabaptists
p. 138
The Critical Problem
p. 138
Former Treatments of Anabaptism and the Source Problem
p. 143
Traditional Interpretations
p. 143
Lutheran
Reformed
Roman Catholic
In-Group Records and Writings
p. 148
Friendly Out-Group Writing
p. 152
Current Developments in Interpretation
p. 154
Impact of Religious Sociologists
p. 154
The Rediscovery of Primary Sources
p. 156
The Disputations
p. 159
In Conclusion
p. 160
Notes
p. 162
Selected Bibliography
p. 215
Index
p. 223
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