Brewer, Brian C. (Hrsg.): T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism

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.Focusing on the sixteenth-century origins of Anabaptism, this important new handbook emphasizes the multiplicity of its beginnings, the thinkers who influenced it, the doctrines that characterized Anabaptism as a complex religious movement of the Reformation, and the lasting impact that it has had down to our own times.