Early Anabaptist spirituality : selected writings / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Daniel Liechty ; preface by Hans J. Hillerbrand. - New York : Paulist Press, c1994. - xxiii, 304 p. : illus. ; hbk ; 23 cm. - The Classics of Western spirituality .

Translation of writing from their original Dutch and German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-300) and index.

Pt. 1. Swiss Anabaptism:
Letter from prison (1527) / Felix Mantz --
Concerning freedom of the will (1527) ; A short meditation on the Lord's prayer (1526) / Balthasar Hubmaier --
Six Anabaptist hymns (1526-1529) / Ausband --
Pt. 2. South German and Austrian Anabaptism:
On the mystery of baptism (1526) / Hans Hut --
Three kinds of grace (1527) ; Three kinds of baptism (1527) / Leonhard Schiemer --
Instruction on beginning a true Christian life (1527) ; Two prayers (1527) / Hans Schlaffer --
Concerning true love (1527) ; Divine order (1527) / Hans Denck --
Pt. 3. Hutterian Anabaptism:
True yieldedness and the Christian community of goods (1577) / Peter Walpot --
Pt. 4. Dutch Anabaptism: Concerning the new birth and the new creature (1556) ; Concerning spiritual restitution (1559) / Dirk Philips --
A meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm (1537) / Menno Simons.

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