Volume 6, Number 5 · March 31, 1966
Communists
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
All Things Common: The Hutterian Way of Life
by Victor Peters
University of Minnesota, 221 pp., $5.75
Ever since Christianity compromised with the Roman Empire, there have been sects who have insisted on going back to its original source, the New Testament, and its original form, the primitive Church of the Apostles. Most of these sects have been short-lived. Either they have been persecuted out of existence by the established Churches or they have themselves, after a few generations, compromised with the surrounding society and been absorbed by it. The only sects which have preserved their original character for several centuries are the two most uncompromising relics of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement: the Amish and the Hutterites.
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