Andrew Bradstock & Christopher Rowland 
Radical Christian Writings [PDF ebook] 
A Reader

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Christianity: Radical and Political xvi
1 Justin (c 100-c 165) and Cyprian (c 300) 1
2 The Acts of Paul and Thecla (Second Century) 4
3 Pelagius (Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries CE) 12
4 Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) and Peter Olivi (1248-1298) 34
5 Marguerite Piorete (died 1310) 38
6 John Ball (d 1381) 40
7 William Langland (1330-1387) 42
8 Jan Hus (c 1372-1415) 51
9 Lollard Sermon for Christmas Day on Luke 2.1-14 (Early Fifteenth Century) 56
10 Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) 59
11 Defending the Indians 62
12 Argula von Grumbach (c 1492-1554) 69
13 Thomas Münster (1489?-1525) 75
14 William Tyndale (1494-1536) 81
15 Early Anabaptist Writings 84
16 The Family of Love 94
17 Early Baptist Worship 105
18 Thomas Helwys (c 1550-c 1616) 107
19 The Levellers 109
20 John Milton (1608-1674) 114
21 Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) 120
22 Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672) 138
23 Anna Trapnel (c 1654) 144
24 Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole 147
25 Anne Wentworth (c 1679) 153
26 James Nayler (c 1617-1660): Behold You Rulers (1658) 157
27 John Bunyan (1628-1688) 162
28 William Blake (1757-1827) 165
29 John Woolman (1771-1720): Some Considerations on the Keeping of the Negroes (1754) 172
30 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (c 1797-1883) 176
31 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) 180
32 Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) 186
33 Joseph Arch (1826-1919) 189
34 Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918) 193
35 Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) 196
36 Frank Weston (1871-1924) 199
37 The Barmen Declaration (1934) 201
38 Dorothy Day (1897-1980) 204
39 The Worker-Priests 209
40 Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) 216
41 Alan Ecclestone (1904-1992) 221
42 Martin Luther King (1929-1968) 229
43 Camilo Torres (1929-1966) 235
44 Dorothee Soelle (b 1929) 238
45 The Solentiname Community (1966-1977) 243
46 Steve Biko (1946-1977) 247
47 Stanley Hauerwas on John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) 250
48 William Stringfellow (1928-1985) 255
49 Ian M Fraser 261
50 Carter Heyward 265
51 Herbert Mc Cabe (b 1926) 272
52 Oscar Romero (1917-1980) 277
53 John Vincent 280
54 The Kairos Document (1985) 285
55 Carlos Mesters 305
56 The Interpretive Method of ‘Unlock’ 308
57 Theology from the Perspective of ‘Third-World’ Women 311
58 Sigqibo Dwane 315
59 Sara Maitland 321
60 Kenneth Leech (b 1939) 327
61 Daniel Berrigan (1921-) 332
62 Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-) 335
63 Thomas Hanks 343
Index 347
Scriptural Citations 350

Andrew Bradstock works for the United Reformed Church,
London.
Christopher Rowland is the Dean Ireland Professor of the
Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Queen’s College, University of
Oxford.