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Menno Simons · 1537 · Treatise
Written in 1537, just two years after Menno Simons left the Catholic priesthood to join the Anabaptist movement, this devotional treatise represents one of his earliest attempts to articulate a distinctly Anabaptist…
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Menno Simons · 1537 · Treatise
Written in 1537 during the tumultuous early years of the Radical Reformation, Menno Simons' treatise on the new birth emerged from his pastoral concern for Anabaptist communities facing persecution and theological attack.…
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Menno Simons · 1539 · Treatise
Menno Simons wrote this treatise in 1539 as a systematic defense of adult baptism against both Catholic sacramentalism and Lutheran infant baptism practices. Having left the Catholic priesthood to join the Anabaptist…
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Menno Simons · 1539–1561 · Book
Menno Simons' collected writings emerge from the tumultuous world of sixteenth-century Radical Reformation, when Anabaptist communities faced severe persecution across Europe. A former Catholic priest who joined the Anabaptist movement in 1536,…
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Menno Simons · 1539 · Treatise
Menno Simons wrote this systematic theological treatise in 1539 as the Anabaptist movement faced intense persecution and doctrinal challenges from both Catholic and Protestant authorities. Having left the Catholic priesthood five years…
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Menno Simons · 1541 · Treatise
Written in 1541 during the height of Anabaptist persecution in the Netherlands, Menno Simons' "True Christian Faith" emerged as both theological treatise and survival manual for a hunted religious movement. Simons, a…
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Menno Simons · 1550 · Treatise
Written in 1550 during the tumultuous early decades of the Anabaptist movement, Menno Simons' treatise on church discipline emerged from urgent practical controversies dividing the young communities. As former Catholic priest turned…
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Menno Simons · 1552 · Treatise
A Pathetic Supplication represents Menno Simons' most passionate defense of Anabaptist faith and practice, written in 1552 during intensifying persecution of his communities across the Low Countries and northern Germany. The treatise…
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Menno Simons · 1552 · Treatise
This treatise responds to accusations leveled against Anabaptist teaching by Gellius Faber, a Reformed minister in Emden who had published attacks on Mennonite communities in East Frisia. Writing in 1552, Menno Simons…
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Menno Simons · 1554 · Treatise
Menno Simons wrote this treatise in 1554 as a defense of Anabaptist faithfulness under persecution, addressing both his own community and their critics. The work emerged from the intense pressures facing Dutch…
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Unity of the Brethren scholars · 1579 · Scripture
The Bible of Kralice is a landmark Czech Bible, produced by scholars of the Unity of Brethren and named for the Moravian town of Kralice, where it was printed in the later…
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Thieleman J. van Braght · 1660 · Book
Thieleman Jansz van Braght was a Mennonite minister and cloth merchant in Dordrecht when he assembled this enormous martyrology, published in 1660 under a title that translates roughly as "The Bloody Theater,…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1725–1760 · Poem
Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf's hymns emerged from his leadership of the renewed Moravian Church at Herrnhut, where a twenty-four-hour prayer vigil beginning in 1727 lasted over a century and sparked worldwide missionary endeavors.…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1732 · Treatise
Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf wrote this apologetic treatise in 1732 as the Moravian community at Herrnhut faced mounting criticism from Lutheran authorities and German intellectuals. The renewed Moravian church, which had emerged from…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1738 · Treatise
This collection of aphoristic theological reflections emerges from Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf's leadership of the renewed Moravian Church during the 1730s, when the community faced both internal theological disputes and external criticism from…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1739 · Sermon
These sixteen sermons represent Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf's mature theological reflection on Christ's atoning work, delivered in 1739 to the Moravian community at Herrnhut. As the spiritual leader of the renewed…
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Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf · 1748 · Sermon
These twenty-one discourses represent Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf's systematic engagement with the foundational Lutheran confession of faith, delivered as sermons to his Moravian community in the 1740s. As leader of the…
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John Nelson Darby · 1867 · Scripture
The Darby Bible is a literal rendering of the complete Scriptures associated with John Nelson Darby, a leading figure among the Plymouth Brethren, and it has been highly influential within that movement…
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Clarence Jordan · 1952 · Commentary
Clarence Jordan's commentary on the Sermon on the Mount emerged from his radical experiment in Christian community at Koinonia Farm in Georgia during the height of Jim Crow segregation. As a New…
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Watchman Nee · 1962 · Book
The Normal Christian Church Life emerged from Watchman Nee's conviction that the institutional Christianity of his day had departed from the New Testament pattern of church life. Writing from his experience leading…
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Watchman Nee · 1965 · Book
The Release of the Spirit emerged from Watchman Nee's training sessions for Christian workers in 1948 China, delivered as he prepared a generation of believers for ministry amid mounting political upheaval. Originally…
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Clarence Jordan · 1969 · Commentary
The Cotton Patch Version of Luke and Acts is Clarence Jordan's radical translation of these New Testament books into the vernacular and social context of the twentieth-century American South. Jordan, a Southern…
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Clarence Jordan · 1970 · Commentary
The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John is Clarence Jordan's radical paraphrase of two gospels, translating the biblical narrative into the language and social context of the mid-twentieth-century American South. Jordan,…
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Clarence Jordan · 1972 · Sermon
This collection gathers sermons preached by Clarence Jordan at Koinonia Farm, the interracial Christian community he founded in rural Georgia in 1942. The sermons emerged from the crucible of the civil rights…
