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In 1529, after the last of the Anabaptists’ first leaders had been burned at the stake, the recent convert Jakob Hutter became a missionary and leader in their underground congregations. These fellowships held their goods in common and abjured violence, seeking to live according to Jesus’ teachings. Ferdinand, ruler of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor), sought to stamp out this movement through a campaign of surveillance, torture, and executions. Many Anabaptists fled to more tolerant Moravia; as the repression in Austria intensified, Hutter and his future wife Katharina followed them. But in 1535, Ferdinand pressured the governor of Moravia to expel the refugees from their homes. The Hutters returned to the mission field in Tyrol, where they were soon captured by Ferdinand’s forces; Jakob would be burned, Katharina was drowned two years later.
Like so many of the early Anabaptist leaders, Hutter’s ministry lasted less than a decade before he was martyred. His leadership of the community that still bears his name nearly five centuries later lasted only two years. This biography reveals a complex character, criticized by contemporaries and some historians, but evidently a respected leader and community builder. The letters included in this comprehensive collection of writings by and about him reveal a pastor who was deeply concerned for the flourishing of those he served. This is a welcome addition to the Classics of the Radical Reformation series, in which we encounter not only Hutter but his wife, Katharina, and a number of other little known but significant early Anabaptist leaders. —Stuart Murray Williams, director, Centre for Anabaptist Studies, Bristol Baptist College In the years-long process of creating and editing their volume, Emmy Barth Maendel and Jonathan Seiling have produced a most worthy addition to the Classics of the Radical Reformation series. They have therein illuminated, brilliantly, the unique communitarian faith and early history of one of the three Anabaptist movements that would outlast the centuries. The in-depth and highly readable biographical introduction on Jakob Hutter brings together a whole spectrum of new scholarship. All eight of Hutter’s extant writings and a wealth of parallel contextual materials rounds out the scope of the volume. This is a must-read, particularly now as we celebrate five hundred years since the birth of Anabaptism, of which Hutterianism is an essential part. —Leonard Gross, author, The Golden Years of the Hutterites
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