Love Is Like Fire

The Confession of an Anabaptist Prisoner

Peter Riedemann, Stuart Murray

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English

Plough Publishing House
16 June 2016

History of religion; Christianity; Christian theology; Christian life & practice; Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works

Series: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics

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.

By: Peter Riedemann
Afterword by: Stuart Murray
Imprint: Plough Publishing House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9780874867350
ISBN 10: 0874867355
Series: Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 16 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Riedemann (1506-1556) became an Anabaptist minister at age twenty-three, at a time when these church reformers were being drowned, beheaded, and burned at the stake by the thousand for their commitment to believers’ baptism, nonviolence, economic sharing, and the restoration of a New Testament Christianity free from state control. He was imprisoned in Austria, but escaped three years later. A prominent early leader of the Hutterites, Riedemann died at a Hutterian intentional community in Slovakia at the age of fifty, having spent a total of nine years in prison for his faith. Stuart Murray, author of The Naked Anabaptist, is a trainer and consultant for church planting and urban mission with the Anabaptist Network. He is based in Bristol, England.

Reviews for Love Is Like Fire: The Confession of an Anabaptist Prisoner

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