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”