Transforming Faith Communities

A Comparative Study of Radical Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism and Late Twentieth-Century Latin America

by Michael Ian Bochenski

Book cover: Transforming Faith Communities

Extent: 348 pages

Publisher: The Lutterworth Press

Subject: Religious Studies

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9780718894993

5.98 x 9.02 inches

Price: $50.00

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PDF (No longer our product)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9780718845988

Price: $36.00

An examination of the parallels between liberation theology and 16th century Anabaptism and the transformative model they offer for the modern church.


Transforming Faith Communities draws upon a model for the church that combines congregationalism with a constructive approach to church-state relationships within a vision for a renewed Christendom, commended as a viable option for Christian missionin the twenty-first-century world. Michael Ian Bochenski uses two movements to make his case: sixteenth-century Anabaptism and late twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology. Each movement is held up as a mirror to the other in a vision for the transformation of church and society that resonates powerfully with contemporary culture. Outlining the development of radical religious communities, Bochenski examines some of the factors that create world-affirming Christian faith communities, and explores many examples of effective and constructive engagement with church and society across the centuries.

  • By (author) Michael Ian Bochenski