Radical Reformation Studies

Contents: Introduction; Part One: Polygenesis and beyond? New research into Anabaptism: The decline of Hutterite community of goods, Taira Kuratsuka; A Reformed-Anabaptist dialogue in Augsburg during the early 1530s, 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, John D. Roth; The ’Perfection of Christ’ reconsidered: the later Swiss Brethren and the sword, 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 Müntzer, Hans-Jürgen Goertz; Sebastian Franck and the Münster Anabaptist kingdom, Geoffrey L. Dipple; Andreas von Karlstadt as a humanist theologian, Bill McNiel; Between the devil and the inquisitor: Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs in the sixteenth-century Netherlands, 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, Sonia Riddoch; Crossing Max Weber’s ’Great Divide’: comparing early modern Jewish and Anabaptist histories, Michael Driedger; Are Mormons Anabaptists? The case of the Mormons and heirs of the Anabaptist tradition on the American frontier, c. 1840, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.; James M. Stayer: Publications; Index.