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The Christian and the Sword: An Anabaptist Manifesto of 1577

Name: The Christian and the Sword: An Anabaptist Manifesto of 1577
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Author: Peter Walpot
ISBN: 9780874868791

by Peter Walpot

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Publisher: Plough Publishing House
13.3 x 19.6 x 0.6 cm

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For those seeking peace through nonviolence.

The Christian and the Sword guides you on faith.

You will embrace a life of love, not conflict.

Discover the powerful message of nonviolence in "The Christian and the Sword," an important Anabaptist manifesto that highlights Biblical teachings on peace and community.

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__Part of a major doctrinal tract of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century, this early Anabaptist document gives Biblical references for Christian nonviolence.__Concerning the Sword is the fourth article of the Article Book, a major doctrinal document of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century. Its author is not named but was probably the Hutterian bishop Peter Walpot (1521-1578). The book deals with the following five articles: (1) Concerning true baptism (and how infant baptism contradicts it); (2) Concerning the Lord's Supper (and how the sacrament of the priests is against it); (3) Concerning the true surrender (Gelassenheit) and Christian community of goods; (4) That Christians should not go to war nor should they use sword or violence nor secular litigation; (5) Concerning divorce between believers and unbelievers. The book is not a theological treatise, but rather, like all Anabaptist doctrinal writings, a collection of biblical texts topically arranged to prove the position of the church with regard to the question at issue. The title of the larger edition, A Beautiful and Pleasant Little Book Concerning the Main Articles of our Faith, is quite colorless; more to the point is the title used in the Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren: The Five Articles of the Greatest Conflict Between Us and the World. It does not pretend to contain a complete system of Anabaptist thought but only a collection of those points and their arguments that distinguish the Brethren from the "world" and justify their particular stand. The Article Book must have been widely known in its time. Catholics as well as Lutheran polemics against it are known.