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Die erste Rechenschaft von Peter Riedemann ist eine beeindruckende Zeugenaussage, die Einblick in die Denkweise der ersten Täufer gewährt. Mit ihrer Betonung auf die Liebe Gottes und auf die Antwort der Gläubigen auf diese Liebe stellt die Rechenschaft einen wichtigen Aspekt der Grundlagen von Hutterern als Täufer dar, der manchmal von Regeln und Vorschriften überschattet wird.Gleichzeitig handelt es sich um ein Beispiel für anfängliche Bemühungen der Täufer, Außenseiter mit Gottes Wort zu konfrontieren und sie zu einer neuen Sichtweise zu bewegen. Es ist an der Zeit, die erste Rechenschaft Riedemanns aus der fast vergessenen Zeitzeugenrubrik früher Täufer zu befreien.

Es lauft e Meisl is a stunning collection of Hutterite nursery rhymes. "Although they seem mere nonsense rhymes on the surface," Karis Waldner observes, "I learned that they carry many memories: Michael shaking his head in distaste at the poem Michela, Machela as he remembered being teased with it; Diane Basl remembering the fun they had throwing pebbles into the creek that ran along side Interlake Community shouting, Ankela, Ankela, strick mer e Blachela. I believe that our very own bank of Huttrischa Verselen is an excellent resource with which to begin a child's love of language. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to acknowledge, preserve, and share our treasury of Verselen."

Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation brings together several earlier communal disciplines of the Hutterian Brethren written during a time-span of more than a century, beginning with the first generation of the Hutterian movement (1542), and continuing into the late Ehrenpreis era (1654).The first section, "Concerning the Upbringing of Children," holds special significance in that the unit forms a major section of a pedagogical codex compiled by Vorsteher Claus Braidl. Although the school problems during the 1540s through the 1570s were certainly difficult to solve, the approach of the whole Brotherhood in general, and the leadership in particular, suggests a fine balance struck in attempting to cope with perennial problems within the schools, highly innovative for their times. The beautiful catechism for children, lifted from a small pedagogical codex at Olomouc, ¿SSR, suggests the depth of the Hutterites' concern for teaching the children who have not yet been baptized; they are still to be brought up in the fear of God and taught respect and appreciation for all of God's creation, but especially for the church-community (Gemeinde), which God established and which the Hutterites were faithfully continuing in their response to God as His people.The Taufreden (baptismal sermons) are unique among those extant in Hutterian literature in that they are the only known, full-length sermons which were not only written in the sixteenth century, but are taken from a sixteenth century codex (1599). The "Regulation Concerning the Matching of the Young People for Marriage" (1643), the "Communal Discipline" (1651), and the "Barber-Surgeon Discipline" (1654) represent a later period of Hutterian life.