This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism, re-examining the ’polygenesis model’ of Anabaptism articulated by Stayer, Packull and Depperman. Part Two deals with the connections between Anabaptists and other Reformation dissenters, their marginalisation as social groups and their relations with the intellectual movements of the age. The final section addresses historiographic and comparative issues of writing the history of marginalised groups, investigating some preconceptions which influence historians’ approaches to Anabaptism and their implications for understanding other religious groups.

Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

History

Packull, Werner O.

Dipple, Geoffrey L.

Americas

Routledge

A detatailed and well written account of this group of Anabaptists.
The oldest and largest communal society in North America, the Hutterites―Anabaptists of German origin, like the Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren―have long been the subject of scholarly study and popular curiosity. Werner Packull tells the comprehensive story of the Hutterite beginnings in their original homelands―particularly in Tyrol and Moravia―and discovers important relationships among early Anabaptist sects.

Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)

World

Johns Hopkins University Press

About the Author\nWerner O. Packull is a professor of history at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Rereading Anabaptist Beginnings and Mysticism and the Early South German-Austrian Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1531.

Mysticism and the Early South German-Austrian Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1531 (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History)

Religion & Spirituality

Herald Pr

Werner Packull delineates more clearly than any previous scholar the theological and spiritual differences between South German and Swiss Anabaptists. He examines thoroughly the dominant medieval mystical influence in the thought of Denck and Hut and the latter's immediate South German Anabaptist followers. Indeed, Packull decides that South German Anabaptism derives more from medieval mysticism than from the Reformation. Packull is convincing in his demonstration of this thesis because of his meticulous care in reading the primary sources and because he examines and refutes the arguments of those who would place the Protestant influence as the primary one. He carefully isolates and explains particular ideas of the medieval mystics and demonstrates their influence on Denck and Hut. Packull expands and elaborates the earlier suggestions of Kiwiet and Williams, both of whom postulated a discrete Anabaptism in South Germany as against that of Switzerland. He draws on the more recent and still unpublished work of Gottfried Seebass, especially on Seebass' selection of writings which he ascribes to Hut. Packull's second major thesis is that the earliest form of South German Anabaptism was transitional both sociologically and theologically. He demonstrates that there were indeed strains of Anabaptism which were not as clearly biblicist in emphasis as the one in Zurich. Packull's work makes the phenomenon of early Anabaptism more complex, less uniform, but hi252*.00storically more accurate, more in line with the realities of the religious ferment of the 1520s among German-speaking people.

Mysticism and the Early South German - Austrian Anabaptist Movement 1525 - 1531

Christian Books & Bibles

Wipf & Stock Publishers

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