Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church

Entering a field of controversy, this book dares to offer a fresh model - defenseless Christianity - for understanding Anabaptism, past and present. Although some first-generation Anabaptists were not pacifist, the authors contend that an Anabaptism defined as defenseless Christianity should be seen as a nonviolent Christian movement with a world-reconciling theology. They describe an Anabaptism applicable to Christians of any denomination hungry for their practices to be shaped within the story and life of Jesus Christ.