Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism
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Overview
This volume includes the complete writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, one of the most influential Anabaptist theologians of the Reformation. Study his notable treatises on believer’s and infant baptism, the Lord’s Supper, free will, prayer, fraternal admonition, and more. Translated, edited, and annotated by H. Wayne Pipkin and John Howard Yoder, it includes five indexes, a bibliography for further study, and numerous illustrations.
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- Contains the complete writings of Balthasar Hubmaier
- Includes illustrations to enhance the text
- Covers a variety of topics important to Anabaptism
Top Highlights
“Balthasar: Think better, my Zwingli. For if baptism of those previously instructed and believing is a heresy, then Christ is the first archheretic. For he ordered that one should first preach, afterward believe, and third, baptize, Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:16. And the apostles must also be heretics who also practiced it thus, Acts 2:38, 41; 8:12–13; 35–38; 10:44–48; 11:13–18; 16:14–15; 32–33; 19:5. Let every godly Christian read these chapters first and afterward judge.” (Page 179)
“for I may err, I am a human being; but a heretic I cannot be.” (Page 29)
“The greatest deception of the people is the kind of zeal for God which is invested without Scripture in the interest of the salvation of souls, the honor of the church, love for the truth, good intentions, usages or custom, episcopal decrees, and the indications of reason, all of which have been begged from the light of nature. These are lethal errors, when they are not led and directed according to Scripture.” (Pages 64–65)
“Dear pious Christians, listen. First, you err in calling the present baptism as it is practiced a rebaptism, since infant baptism is not a baptism according to your own confession nor in truth. Therefore, the present baptism is not rebaptism but a baptism.” (Page 121)
“Since every Christian believes and is baptized for himself every one should see and should judge by Scripture, whether he is being rightly fed and watered by his shepherd.” (Page 33)
Fulfills all expectations, providing an English-speaking audience access to the thought of Anabaptism’s only doctor of theology.
—The Conrad Grebel Review
Hubmaier’s nuances and precision are well reflected. Informative footnotes add much.
—Church History
Provides important insights and raises questions deriving from the last 30 years of Anabaptist research.
—Zwingliana
A major achievement.
—Journal of Mennonite Studies
The definitive rendering into English of the Hubmaier corpus.
—The Mennonite Quarterly Review
A task well done.
—Sixteenth Century Journal
Long overdue and anxiously awaited. Readers can now discover for themselves the Anabaptist foundation of religious freedom.
—Journal of Church and State
A beautiful piece of work, both editorially and aesthetically.
—Franklin H. Littel, emeritus professor of religion, Temple University
- Title: Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism
- Editors: H. Wayne Pipkin and John Howard Yoder
- Translators: H. Wayne Pipkin and John Howard Yoder
- Publisher: Herald Press
- Publication Date: 1989
- Pages: 606
- Christian Group: Anabaptist
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Theology