A. The context: Reformation and radical reformation
The late medieval tradition and the early reformation challenge
The emergence of radical reform
The radical reformation revisited

B. The setting of initial boundaries: 1525-1540
The origins of Swiss Anabaptism
The origins of South German / Austrian Anabaptism
The theological and ecclesiological core of Anabaptism
The communication of Anabaptist ideas
The spread and development of early Anabaptism
The Strasbourg context
The origin and spread of North German / Dutch Anabaptism
Anabaptists and scripture: an overview.

C. The development of Anabaptism: 1525-ca. 1600
1. Anabaptism and political reality
Anabaptism and political reality
Sword and oath in Swiss and South German / Austrian Anabaptism
Melchior Hoffman and Bernhard Rothmann: Sword and oath
After Munster: Sword and oath in the Melchiorite tradition
2. Anabaptism and socio-economic reality
Anabaptism and socio-economic reality
Anabaptism and economics
Equality in the community of saints
Anabaptist marriage
3. Anabaptism and religious reform
Anabaptism and religious reform: the inner and the outer
The challenge of spiritualism: the South German / Austrian stream
The challenge of spiritualism: Menno Simons and Nicolaas van Blesdijk
Pilgram Marpeck and the Swiss Brethren: regeneration and discipline
Menno Simons: The Church of the Regenerate
The church as sacrament

D. Conclusion
The continuing Anabaptist tradition
Epilogue: the continuing conversation
Appendix: A review of Anabaptist historiography