Word: anabaptist
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...maintain a consistent style. By focusing on 16th century peasant revolts and utopian movements, the group was able to make some subtle points consistent with its modern-day beliefs. "A life free of enslavement to money and commodities is a better life," declares the leader of a 1630s Anabaptist community in Antwerp. The real Luther Blissett, now retired to Watford, has expressed irritation at the identity theft but never tried to stop it. Now he can relax. Bui and his co-authors have dropped the Blissett banner and regrouped as Wu Ming (Chinese for "without a name"). They have become...
...always find themselves in one political community or another but who are never defined completely by it. Thus, as the body of Christ on Earth, Christians must be a "sign of contradiction," to borrow a term from Pope John Paul II, a moral theologian much admired by the very Anabaptist Methodist Hauerwas. Hauerwas recently argued that in a human future he believes will be bleak, Christians should be known as "those peculiar people who don't kill their babies [through abortion] or their old people [through euthanasia...
Hauerwas is a volatile, complex person with an explosive personality and high-energy style. For many, he is an unlikely pacifist. He insists that Christians should exemplify a radical message of peace. Hauerwas learned this lesson from the Anabaptist theologian John Howard Yoder. Hauerwas has respect for a position known as the just-war perspective, a mode of reflection on war's occasional tragic necessity, either for self-defense or to protect those who might otherwise be slaughtered. But he insists that most Christians who claim that position are not really serious about it, or they would oppose many more...
...stereotype of small town reactionary fanaticism is often as much of a myth as that of the Red Menace on the Charles, insists Elliott. He points out that his family, for example, as well as other members of the Anabaptist Protestant sect to which they belong, have always stressed cooperation and generosity in race relations. "In some ways I also came here a lot less exist than many people," he adds, explaining that in Bremen, women such as his own mother work full-time "out of necessity, and there's no great cause attached to it." In general he lauds...
HUTTERITE SOCIETY, by John A. Hosteller (Johns Hopkins University Press; 403 pages; $14). The stern Amish and their more moderate Mennonite brothers are better known than the Hutterites, another wing of German Anabaptists, whose long religious journey led them to Moravia, Transylvania and Russia before they came to North America in the last century. Hosteller, an anthropologist and sociologist at Temple University, comes from an Amish background and has already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society. His new book draws an impressive picture of a people who share the general Anabaptist rejection of worldly...