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Seditions, Confusion and Tumult

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When Layton Friesen was growing up as the son of an Evangelical Mennonite Conference pastoral couple in Manitoba’s Interlake Region and elsewhere, he was puzzled by how Anabaptists were mistreated in the sixteenth century. If, as he was told, the Anabaptist movement was the high point in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, why were Anabaptists opposed so bitterly? He suspected that he was not being told all of the story. At Regent College, while engaged in its Master of Theology program, he spent a year studying why Anabaptists were so opposed in much of Reformation Europe, and this book is the result. In studying the views of the opponents of Anabaptists, he was seeking to understand them, not to refute them nor to justify what happened to Anabaptists. Through the study, however, he began to understand Anabaptism better and to see how it presented challenges to society then; and he believes it can continue to challenge society today. This book will be of interest within Anabaptist and wider circles.

Layton Boyd Friesen
Penner’s book looks briefly at the start of the Christian Church, the Reformation, and the wider Anabaptist movement before focusing on the EMC. The EMC came out of the Kleine Gemeinde, a group which broke away from a larger Mennonite church in 1812 in Russia and came to Canada in 1874-75. Penner traces the development of part of the KG into the EMC, a church that, at first, moved around the world for religious freedom and, later, expanded its vision to send members around the globe in Christian service.
256 pages

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