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Except for Melchior Hoffman's visits to Sweden, Anabaptists seemed to have bypassed Scandinavia. Later the Lutheran state church suppressed all free church movements until the mid-19th century. Mennonite contact with Sweden has been largely circumstantial: participating in international church gatherings; young people attending Torchbearer's Bible School; Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) volunteers marrying Swedish spouses and settling there. Several books by Mennonite and Brethren in Christ authors have been translated into Swedish. After 1983 Thomas and Disa Rutschman worked in Jokkmokk as overseas missions associates with the Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church). Their work consisted of pastoring a small free church and related outreach efforts.
Bibliography
Sider, Ronald J. Kristus och våldet. SKEAB, 1981.
Yoder, John H. Jesu Politik. Verbum, 1984.
Articles about Anabaptism in Nytt Liv (1978, 1986) and Kristna Freds (1986).
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 868. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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