For over 450 years, the work of Peter Riedemann (1506-1556) has structured the life and faith of Hutterite Christians, supporting their aspiration to a peaceful and communal life as disciples of Christ. It has contributed greatly to maintaining the primitive idea of Hutterite Anabaptist communities, throughout centuries of persecution or indifference. Jacob Hutter, who died at the stake on February 25, 1536, only had time to launch the movement that bears his name. Peter Riedemann was its second founder. He gave it its unity with the dogmatic and ethical elements it needed to establish itself over time.
The exposition of our Religion, our doctrine and our Faith represents the completed state of his thought. Its rigor, allied to its prophetic impulse, explains the attachment that your Hutterites have shown to this treatise until our days. This text has in some way served as a rule for their evangelical and family communities, which are not without recalling certain forms of your monastic life.
In a world searching for reference points and community experiences, for Christians eager for fraternal communion and a testimony of peace, the paths opened by Peter Riedemann can find a new relevance. His Exposition is sometimes disconcerting.
It requires some effort to read. But it is worth coming out of oblivion.
ISBN: 9782755000573