Following the initiation of persecution against them by the Jesuits, the Schwenkfelders in Silesia opened a correspondence with the Mennonites in Holland requesting financial and political aid, calling the Dutch Mennonites "fellow-believers". The Mennonites eventually sent financial aid, b...

From the late patristic period until well into the 20th century the traditional reading of Luke 10:42, "One thing is necessary", provided the biblical basis for discussions regarding the relationship between the active and the contemplative lives and for treatments of the theology of the m...