The Christian and the Sword: An Anabaptist Manifesto of 1577

by Peter Walpot

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874868793
• ISBN13: 9780874868791
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.7"