been offered the crown of England. "I said again, they that sought to put on him
Endnotes
1. A reference to "dialectical theology."
2. In his Journal, George Fox refers to his meeting with Oliver Cromwell, who had been offered the crown of England. "I said again, they that sought to put on him a crown would take away his life; and I bid him mind the crown that was immor tal." See The Journal of George Fox, with introduction by Rufus M. Jones (London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1962), p. 170.
3. Authentic leadership in Christian community is service. Therefore the Bruderhof uses the old Hutterian designation, Servant of the Word, instead of minister or pastor. The words servant, deacon, and minister are all translations of the same word diakonos in the New Testament.
4. François de Fénelon, French Theologian, 1651-1715.
5. For this chapter extensive use hs been made of Eberhard Arnold's Children's Edu cation in Community.
6. Two members, coming home from the local bank, had been robbed at gunpoint of the week's wages for the Bruderhof-employed carpenters and workmen.
7. French Statesman, 1754-1838.
8. The Confessing Church was a movement of resistance to the nazification of Ger man Protestantism. It sought to resist the take-over of Protestant Churches by Nazi leadership without withdrawing from the State Churches. Its most impor tant single expression ws the Barmen Confession (May 1934).
9. The first generation of the Protestant reformation was deeply troubled by a series of violent uprisings of peasants in many German territories, 1524-1525. The re action of reformers Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli to this demand for social change was to commit their reformation movement solidly to an alliance with existing governments.