{"product_id":"the-christian-and-the-sword-9780874868791","title":"The Christian and the Sword","description":"\u003cb\u003ePart of a major doctrinal tract of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century, this early Anabaptist document gives Biblical references for Christian nonviolence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConcerning the Sword is the fourth article of the \u003ci\u003eArticle Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a major doctrinal document of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century. Its author is not named but was probably the Hutterian bishop Peter Walpot (1521-1578). The book deals with the following five articles: (1) Concerning true baptism (and how infant baptism contradicts it); (2) Concerning the Lord's Supper (and how the sacrament of the priests is against it); (3) Concerning the true surrender (Gelassenheit) and Christian community of goods; (4) That Christians should not go to war nor should they use sword or violence nor secular litigation; (5) Concerning divorce between believers and unbelievers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book is not a theological treatise,\u003c\/b\u003e but rather, like all Anabaptist doctrinal writings, a collection of biblical texts topically arranged to prove the position of the church with regard to the question at issue. The title of the larger edition, \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful and Pleasant Little Book Concerning the Main Articles of our Faith,\u003c\/i\u003e is quite colorless; more to the point is the title used in \u003ci\u003ethe Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren: The Five Articles of the Greatest Conflict Between Us and the World.\u003c\/i\u003e It does not pretend to contain a complete system of Anabaptist thought but only a collection of those points and their arguments that distinguish the Brethren from the “world” and justify their particular stand. \u003ci\u003eThe Article Book\u003c\/i\u003e must have been widely known in its time. Catholics as well as Lutheran polemics against it are known.","brand":"Peter Walpot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960704569462,"sku":"9780874868791","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_1bb58662-4d82-41b8-98c5-70f7880bb9c7.jpg?v=1767809845","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/the-christian-and-the-sword-9780874868791","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}