Health and medicine in the Anabaptist tradition

About this book

The Anabaptists (among them the Brethren, Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites) represent an important element in the religious history of this country and a strong overall witness in our culture. The focus of these groups on peace and reconciliation has produced pacifists during many wars in many nations, leading some into alternative service and even imprisonment. Yet members of larger denominations and religious communities know little about Anabaptists and the Anabaptist tradition. In this book Graydon Snyder helps readers understand the distinctive commitments of Anabaptists, especially as these influence Anabaptist approaches to health and medicine. Understandings of wellness and illness, care and cure, suffering and death are taken up in a communal context, an approach that demands serious consideration in our times.