What do the sixteenth-century Anabaptists have to offer to Baptists and other free-church evangelicals today? According to the contributors to the volume, studying the lives and theology of the leading evangelical Anabaptists will encourage readers to dig deeper into the Bible, count the cost of discipleship to Jesus Christ, and commit oneself to engaging the world with the gospel. 

This collection of essays serves as a festschrift to honor the lifelong work of Paige Patterson in the study of the Radical Reformation. The contributors represent a diversity of scholars from the United States and around the world.