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The Radical Reformation (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

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This book is an excellent view of the various views of the Radical Reformers. It presents the essential writings of the reformers' views on the issues most essential to protestants. A must for anyone seeking knowledge of Church history--particularly anabaptist history.

Difficult areas of the text are footnoted, providing background information, translation issues, and the like. Very well done, and a delightful read. This book will cause you to understand where your faith has come from, developmentally speaking.

This book brings together an excellent collection of reformers writings from the period of religious reformation where politics and religion were synonymous with each other. The topics are wide ranging from Muntzer to those who organized the peasants' revolt. Baylor provides a good introduction for each and in parts where the text are difficult adequate foot noting is provided. If you are looking for a good start to the primary sources of the Reformation you cannot do any better. This is a great classic also for those who are studying the early methods of political thought before it was easily defined liberalism under Hobbes and Locke.