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A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, Constructive is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this comprehensive volume Thomas N. Finger takes on the formidable task of making explicit the often implicit theology of the Anabaptist movement and then presenting, for the sake of the welfare of the whole contemporary Christian church, his own constructive theology. In the first part Finger tells the story of the development of Anabaptist thought, helping the reader grasp both the unifying...

the vision of Christ and the apostles.”2 I must limit my account of this approach and its critics to North America. The Anabaptist Vision Harold Bender located himself in this line in his epochal 1944 address, “The Anabaptist Vision.” Bender identified three themes as most basic to historic Anabaptism. First, the “essence of Christianity” for Anabaptists was discipleship. Second, the church was a voluntary brotherhood. Third, an “ethic of love and nonresistance as applied to all human relationships”
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