The way to the city of peace: the Anabaptist utopia of Pieter Pietersz
"The Way to the City of Peace", written in 1625 by the Waterlander Mennonite minister Pieter Pietersz, was one of the earliest books in the pilgrimage genre of spiritual literature. In describing the "City of Peace", Pietersz focuses both on personal and social renewal, with a pe...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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The Mennonite quarterly review
Year: 2004, Volume: 78, Issue: 4, Pages: 525-542 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wegh na Vreden-Stadt, Pietersz, Pieter
/ Mennonites
/ Utopia
/ Geschichte 1625
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDG Free church NBQ Eschatology |
| Summary: | "The Way to the City of Peace", written in 1625 by the Waterlander Mennonite minister Pieter Pietersz, was one of the earliest books in the pilgrimage genre of spiritual literature. In describing the "City of Peace", Pietersz focuses both on personal and social renewal, with a persistent emphasis on moral and ethical issues, including wealth, greed and sharing; violence and warfare; the role of governement; authority and leadership; community life, accountability and discipline; and vice. The citizens of the the City of Peace submit themselves humbly both to Christ (who is their king and teacher) and to one another; they do not live in conformity to the world, but seek to live lives of simplicity, accountability, compassion, forbearance and peace. Thus Pietersz' utopia is nothing other than a concrete vision of God's kingdom rooted firmly in the soil of Anabaptist theology and ideology. |
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| ISSN: | 0025-9373 |
| Contains: | In: The Mennonite quarterly review
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