The Radical Reformation As Renewal (?)

I have been reading Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in preparation for a review. It is easy to dismiss Anabaptists as wild-eyed iconoclasts of both physical space and theological heritage. In the end, that is all these people became to the magisterial Reformers—simultaneously a nuisance and a foil to contrast their own supposed reasonability and catholicity. But historians do not simply repeat the narrative; we complicate the narrative, because human beings are complicated.

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