Issue 5 : Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists
Originally published in 1985

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This article condensed and edited from the book by the same title. Used by permission.
Walter Klaasen
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16th Century Responses to the Anabaptists
John S. Oyer
A Quarter Century that Lit a Fire…that Spread to All the World!
This story of the Michael Sattler family, the Paul Glock family, and the Klaus von Grafeneck family has never been told before. On the surface, it is not a story at all but two rather isolated Anabaptist events, one in the 1520s involving Michael Sattler and one in the 1550s–70s involving Paul Glock. The courage and spirit displayed in these events, however, touched the lives of the van Grafenecks and make one historical vignette about the witness of dying and living in the spirit of Christ.
Leonard Gross
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The Story of Hans Bret, Died January 1577
Translated by Miriam Usher Chrisman. Printed at Strassburg by Jacob Frölich Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Wick Collection PAS II 1/2. The broadsheet is dated in the collection as 1544.
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