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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Part of a major doctrinal tract of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century, this early Anabaptist document gives Biblical references for Christian nonviolence.</b> <p/><b>Concerning the Sword is the fourth article of the <i>Article Book</i></b>, a major doctrinal document of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century. Its author is not named but was probably the Hutterian bishop Peter Walpot (1521-1578). The book deals with the following five articles: (1) Concerning true baptism (and how infant baptism contradicts it); (2) Concerning the Lord's Supper (and how the sacrament of the priests is against it); (3) Concerning the true surrender (Gelassenheit) and Christian community of goods; (4) That Christians should not go to war nor should they use sword or violence nor secular litigation; (5) Concerning divorce between believers and unbelievers. <p/><b>The book is not a theological treatise, </b> but rather, like all Anabaptist doctrinal writings, a collection of biblical texts topically arranged to prove the position of the church with regard to the question at issue. The title of the larger edition, <i>A Beautiful and Pleasant Little Book Concerning the Main Articles of our Faith, </i> is quite colorless; more to the point is the title used in <i>the Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren: The Five Articles of the Greatest Conflict Between Us and the World.</i> It does not pretend to contain a complete system of Anabaptist thought but only a collection of those points and their arguments that distinguish the Brethren from the "world" and justify their particular stand. <i>The Article Book</i> must have been widely known in its time. Catholics as well as Lutheran polemics against it are known.

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