About the Book

Both admirers and critics have called Michael Sattler the most significant of the first-generation leaders of Anabaptism. This collection of documents by and about Sattler, with introductions and extensive notes, makes selected primary source material available in English for the use of students, pastors, teachers, and interested readers. It is the first volume in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute of Mennonite Studies.

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Praise

That Anabaptism survived as a viable movement, with visible structures from the naive beginnings in Zurich in the mid-1520s to the time of the synthesizers of the 1540s, was the work of Michael Sattler more than any other one person and was the effect of his Seven Articles of Schleitheim more than any other one single cause.

John Howard Yoder

Translations by Yoder are faithful to the original.

Marion Wenger, in Mennonite Quarterly Review

Reading these works with Yoder’s notes acquaints one with the distinctive concerns of the early Anabaptists and the issues in the formative period of Reformation dissent.

Everett Ferguson, in Restoration Quarterly

An excellent tool for study from the original text by students of Anabaptist thought.

John J. Kiwiet, in Church History

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