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Subjects Or Citizens? : The Mennonite Experience

1994

Since both acts were done in defiance of state law and against the wishes of Zwingli's Reformed Church, they marked the beginning of a "free church" as a body of Christians distinct from either the Catholic or Reformed state churches.2 Within a few years of the appearance of this circle of Anabaptists in Switzerland, similar movements surfaced in Moravia to the east and in the Low Countries to the [...] Near the end of the seventeenth century the first of the descendants of the Swiss Brethren crossed the Atlantic to settle in William Penn's colony in America. [...] It was not appropriate for a follower of Christ to "pass sentence in disputes and strife about worldly matters" (Matthew 20:25-27).13 Nor was it proper that the Christian "should use the sword against the wicked for the protection and defense of the good, or for the sake of love."14 Like Luther, the Swiss Brethren saw a radical distinction between the church of Christ and the world. [...] In imposing sentences (fines, incarceration, public labour, corporal punishment) on offenders, however, it was necessary to obtain consent of the Schulze of the village to which the guilty person belonged.25 This was the system of government that the Mennonites in Russia used until the emigration of the 1870s. [...] They indicated their intention to begin the migration in the spring of 1874 and expressed the hope that another location might be available to them should the soil of the present reserve prove unsuitable.23 John Lowe, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, responded to their letter a few days later, outlining in fifteen points the advantages and immunities offered to the Mennonites by the Can
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Authors

Adolf Ens

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9780776616964 0776603906
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E57 1994eb
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1 electronic text (x, 266 p.)
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