Author Event - Linda Huebert Hecht, Werner & Karin Packull

Join us for the launch of two important new books on Anabaptist themes:

Women in Early Austrian Anabaptism: Their Days, Their Stories by Linda A. Huebert Hecht. Pandora Press, 2009. 290 pages, color illustrations. $32.50 Cdn

Previously untold stories of women persecuted for their faith during the early years of the Reformation are revealed in the Austrian Anabaptist court records. In the turbulent years of the early 1500s, women chose to express their personal faith publicly through adult baptism, which was outlawed by the state. They took the initiative to proselytize among family members and neighbours. Their commitment to the Anabaptist movement demonstrates profound faith and courage which still speaks to us today.

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From the Tyrol to North America: the Hutterite Story Through the Centuries; by Astrid von Schlachta; translated by Werner & Karin Packull. Pandora Press, 2009. 266 pages, color illustrations. $29.50 Cdn.

The Hutterite sojourn must be considered one of the truly fascinating sagas of the last five hundred years. Often old as a story of incredibile odds, of success as well as failures, a chronicle of continuity, consistency and strength of faith in the face of oppression, persecution, fored conversions, expulsions and intolerance towards those who lived on the fringe of European society. An all-too-human story of prejudics and quarrels, but also of endurance, repeated beginnings and visions of a new era.

Sponsored by the Institute of Anabaptist Mennonite Studies and Pandora Press.