Love Is Like Fire
The Confession of an Anabaptist Prisoner
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Paperback / softback
£5.99
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
ISBN: 9780874867350
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 16/06/2016
Width: 12.7 cm
Height: 17.7 cm
One of the most articulate and biblically grounded voices of the Radical Reformation, Peter Riedemann was only twenty-three when he penned this impassioned confession of faith in the gloom of a sixteenth-century Austrian dungeon. Already a noted Anabaptist leader, Riedemann called fellow persecuted Christians to witness to a love that, “when it really burns, having kindled our eagerness for God, the more temptations and tribulations meet it, the more it flares, until it overcomes and consumes all injustice and wickedness.”
A classic testament to religious liberty with a timely message for modern believers, Love Is Like Fire serves as a striking reminder of the spirit that fired the hearts of early “heretics” during the Reformation. A first translation into English, this book is an important addition to the small but growing number of primary sources on early Anabaptism.
A luminous introduction to the fire of the Radical Reformation. -- Jay C. Rochelle, Currents What the sixteenth-century Anabaptists taught about mutual aid, peace, discipline, religious liberty and lay witness is as fresh and important as it was fifteen generations ago. -- Dr. Franklin H. Littell