Description:
The published edition of the 2022 Jacob D. Maendel Lectures. Dr. Astrid von Schlachta surveys Hutterite history up to the North American period, examining the sources for points of interest regarding maintaining tradition and the impulse to innovate or renew.
Review Quotes:
"I doubt it would be possible in a hundred pages to provide a more succinct and well-written analysis of Hutterite history in Europe, including important details about theological and cultural trends. ... The history presented here provided an essential foundation for much of what has happened during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in North America."
-Rod Janzen, The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities