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Every Spring LMC offers a reading group where we gather by Zoom and discuss a book or other primary source writings. Below is our current offering.

South German/Austrian Anabaptism Readings

Session 1 (21 pages)

• 1527 – Hans Denck, Concerning True Love. [In Early Anabaptist Spirituality. Selected Writings. Translated and edited by Daniel Liechty. New York: Paulist Press, 1994. pp. 112-121.] (10 pages)
• 1527 – Leonhard Schiemer, Concerning the Little Bottle. [In Jörg Maler’s Kunstbuch. Writings of the Pilgram Marpeck Circle. Translated and edited by John D. Rempel. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2010. pp. 227-234.] (8 pages)
• 1527 – Leonhard Schiemer, Three kinds of baptism in the New Testament Clearly Outlined. [In Early Anabaptist Spirituality. Selected Writings. Translated and edited by Daniel Liechty. New York: Paulist Press, 1994. pp. 95-97.] (3 pages)

Session 2 (30 pages)

• 1527? – Eitelhans Langenmantel?, A Sermon on Sin, Repentance and Salvation. [In Sources of South German/Austrian Anabaptism. Edited by C. Arnold Snyder. Walden, NY: Plough Publishing House, 2019. pp. 113-117.] (5 pages)
• 1528 – Hans Langmantel with his manservant and maidservant, A.D. 1529. [In The Martyrs Mirror, by Thieleman J. van Braght. Translated by Joseph F. Sohm. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1950. pp 429-430.] (2 pages)
• 1531 – Pilgram Marpeck?, Expose of the Babylonian Whore. [In Later Writings of Pilgram Marpeck and his Circle, v. 1. Translated by Walter Klaassen. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 1999. pp. 24-44.] (21 pages)
• 1531 – Walpurga Marshalk von Pappenheim, Ausbund song #75 [In Profiles of Anabaptist Women. Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers. Editors C. Arnold Snyder and Linda A. Huebert Hecht. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1996. pp. 121-122.] (2 pages)

Session 3 (30 pages)

• 1531 – Pilgram Marpeck, A Clear Refutation. [In The Writings of Pilgram Marpeck. Translated and edited by William Klassen and Walter Klaassen. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1978. pp. 44-67.] (24 pages)
• 1535 – Jacob Hutter, Letter to the Moravian Lords. [In Plough Quarterly, Faith and Politics, no. 24, Spring 2020. pp. 38-39] (2 pages)
• 1535 – Katharina Purst Hutter – Testimony of Katharina Hutter. [In Profiles of Anabaptist Women. Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers. Editors C. Arnold Snyder and Linda A. Huebert Hecht. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1996. pp. 184-185.] (2 pages)
• 1542 – Gabriel Ascherham, Fragment of the Lost Chronicle of Gabriel Ascherham, published by Christoph Andrea Fisher, 1607[InThe German Peasants’ War and Anabaptist Community of Goods, by James M. Stayer. Montreal: McGill-Queens Press, 1991. pp. 170-171. (2 pages)

Session 4 (25 pages)

• Date? – Leupold Scharnschlager, Whether a Christian Can Hold a Government Office. [In Jörg Maler’s Kunstbuch. Writings of the Pilgram Marpeck Circle. Translated and edited by John D. Rempel. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2010. pp. 514-516.] (3 pages)
• 1542 – Pilgram Marpeck and Leupold Scharnschlager, The Admonition. [Excerpt on Baptism in The Writings of Pilgram Marpeck. Translated and edited by William Klassen and Walter Klaassen. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1978. pp. 185-202.] (17 pages)
• After 1544 – Leupold Scharnschlager, General Admonition and Reminder for Reformation. [In Jörg Maler’s Kunstbuch. Writings of the Pilgram Marpeck Circle. Translated and edited by John D. Rempel. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2010. pp. 413-417.] (5 pages)

Session 5 (16 pages)

• Before 1545 – Helena von Freyberg, Confession of Guilt. [In Jörg Maler’s Kunstbuch. Writings of the Pilgram Marpeck Circle. Translated and edited by John D. Rempel. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2010. pp. 507-512.] (6 pages)
• 1551 – Jörg Maler, Interrogation of Jörg Maler. [In Jörg Maler’s Kunstbuch. Writings of the Pilgram Marpeck Circle. Translated and edited by John D. Rempel. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2010. pp. 368-369.] (2 pages)
• 1565 – Peter Riedemann, “Community of goods,” “War,” “Taxes.” [In Peter Riedemann’a Hutterite Confession of Faith. Translated and edited by John J. Friesen. Walden, NY: Plough Publishing House, 2019. pp. 119-122; 134-135; 136-137]. (8 pages)

Previous Reading Groups

• 2025 – Swiss Anabaptist Readings: 1524-1589
• 2024 – Embodied. Transgender Identities, the Church and shat the Bible has to say, by Preston Sprinkle (For credentialed leaders)
• 2022 – Following in the Footsteps of Christ, by C. Arnold Snyder, plus other readings in Anabaptist spirituality
• 2020 – Anabaptist primary source readings: Swiss; South German, Austrian; Dutch, North German