The Legacy Of Michael Sattler (classics Of The Radical Reformation, 1)

Michael Sattler was born sometime around 1490 at Stauffen in Breisgau. He entered the Benedictine Monastery of St. Peter's, northeast of Freiburg, where he became, by way of Lutheran and Zwinglian ides, to forsake the monastery and to marry, and by March, 1525, had become a member of the Anabaptist movement which had just begun at Zurich two months before.

This series makes available in English the primary works of major Anabaptist figures of the 16th century as well as the writings of other religious thinkers who influenced or shed light on the Anabaptist movement.

John H. Yoder, translator and editor. Michael Sattler has been called by his admirers and critics the most significant of the first-generation leaders of Anabaptism. This is a collection of documents by and about Sattler, edited with introductions and extensive notes. Volume 1.