Historical Dictionary of Radical Christianity

This is another excellent encyclopedic “dictionary” from the Scarecrow stable, with over 400 entries which are handily cross‐referenced by means of bold print. “Radical” can mean, in this context, different things at different times, but Brackney suggests that in general it stands for “an identifiable person/group that sought in some way to restore or recover the original essence of Christianity, as witnessed in the New Testament scriptures”. As time went on, this was often at variance with the orthodoxy of the locally dominant church, thus creating a so‐called heresy, or at least a sect. In addition to “evident radicality”, the...