He had almost reached the far bank when he heard the ice break behind him.
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EUROPE DROWNED THE AMISH ANCESTORS. NOW THERE ARE 400,000.
In January 1525, in a kitchen in Zurich, a handful of believers poured water over each other's heads, and the city answered with the river. For the next two centuries, the people who followed them were burned and drowned across Europe, and they would not raise a hand to defend themselves. This is the story of the Amish, and of the five hundred years it took to become them.
◈ A young man bound and drowned in the Limmat for baptising adults
◈ Prisoners in a Passau dungeon composing hymns still sung today
◈ A fugitive on the ice who turned back to save the man chasing him
◈ A frontier father who would not let his sons fire a single shot
Then they crossed an ocean, and the danger changed its shape.
An atmospheric history of the Anabaptist movement and the Amish, from Reformation Zurich, Passau and the Low Countries to Alsace, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the Supreme Court.
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Sources & further reading
Steven M. Nolt — A History of the Amish (3rd ed., 2015)
John A. Hostetler — Amish Society (4th ed., 1993)
Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner & Steven M. Nolt — The Amish (2013)
C. Arnold Snyder — Anabaptist History and Theology (1995)
Thieleman J. van Braght — Martyrs Mirror (1660; English translation, Herald Press)
Harvey Hostetler — Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler (1912)
Michael Baumann (ed.) — Steps to Reconciliation: Reformed and Anabaptist Churches in Dialogue (2007)
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College — Amish Population Statistics
GAMEO — Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
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