num_pages: 264
description: Founded in part on a rejection of worldly power and the use of force Anabaptism carried with it the promise of redemptive power. Yet the attempt to banish worldly power to the margins of the Christian community has been fraught with dilemmas contradictions and at times blatant abuses of authority. In this groundbreaking book Benjamin W. Redekop Calvin W. Redekop and their coauthors draw on classic and contemporary thinking to confront the issue of power and authority in the Anabaptist-Mennonite community. From the power relationships of the sixteenth-century Peasants' War to issues of contemporary sexuality the topics of Power Authority and the Anabaptist Tradition are sure to interest a wide audience. Stephen C. Ainlay College of the Holy Cross  J. Lawrence Burkholder President Emeritus Goshen College  Lydia Neufeld Harder Toronto School of Theology  Joel Hartman University of Missouri  Jacob A. Loewen missionary retired  Dorothy Yoder Nyce Writer and former Assistant Professor Goshen College  Lynda Nyce Bluffton College  Wesley Prieb (deceased) former dean Tabor College  Benjamin W. Redekop Kettering University  Calvin W. Redekop Conrad Grebel College emeritus  James M. Stayer Queen's University Ontario
language: English
title: Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press