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Many years ago I had an informative conversation with a senior editor at an established, church-related academic publishing house. We were talking about the prospects for publishing texts to support teaching in my field—historical theology, and specifically the global history of Christianity. The editor represented the view of his firm at that time: What was … More As you start …

Michael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527) 

By February 1527, when a small group of Christian radicals gathered in the village of Schleitheim in the Swiss-German borderlands, authorities whose attention had been focused on the political challenges of the Peasants Revolution of 1525 were beginning to make progress tracking down the religious figures whose organizing and preaching had inspired religious-political separatism and … More Michael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527)