Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology

by Stephen B. Boyd

This intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495-1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck's influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on extensive archival data documenting Marpeck's professional life,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822311003
• ISBN13: 9780822311003
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 212 Pages