The Prophetic Self-Fashioning of Conrad Grebel (ca. 1498–1526).
Previous studies on the emergence of Swiss Anabaptism focus on the confluence of religious, political, social, and economic factors as explanatory causes. This article, while not disputing such approaches, instead investigates the interpretive constructions that early Anabaptist leader Conrad Grebel...
| Published in: | Church History & Religious Culture Vol. 100; no. 2/3; pp. 301 - 319 |
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2020
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