The Confession of 1532: Pilgram Marpeck’s Testimony of Faith Presented at Strasbourg - Softcover

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In the winter of 1532, one man’s written faith cost him his city.

Pilgram Marpeck was no trained theologian. He was a mining engineer who gave up career, property, and finally his home in Strasbourg rather than renounce his convictions. The twenty-eight-page confession he handed the city council, answering the reformer Martin Bucer on baptism, law, and the freedom of the church from the sword, is one of the earliest and most
searching statements of Anabaptist faith to survive from the Radical Reformation’s first generation. Weeks after delivering it, he was expelled.

This new English translation, made directly from Marpeck’s original manuscript preserved at Strasbourg, brings a
foundational primary source of Anabaptist and Mennonite history to modern readers. It includes the complete Twenty-Nine Articles, Marpeck’s reply to Bucer, a historical introduction, and full annotations. Essential reading for students of
Reformation history, believers’ baptism, religious liberty, and the roots of the free church, here is a voice that argued for its life before a hostile council and still speaks with undimmed urgency.

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