Balthasar Hübmaier: The Leader of the Anabaptists
Overview
A popular pulpiter in his day, Balthasar Hübmaier is an important figure of the Reformation that has been largely forgotten. Henry C. Vedder provides a history of Balthasar Hübmaier and analyzes his works. An extensive bibliography and over 20 illustrations are included.
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- Explores the life of Balthasar Hübmaier and his role in the Reformation
- Analyzes Balthasar Hübmaier’s works in ministry and his contribution to Anabaptist history
- Includes an extensive bibliography with over 20 illustrations
- The Anabaptists and the Reformation
- The Years of Preparation
- Hübmaier an Evangelical Reformer
- Hübmaier Becomes an Anabaptist
- Hübmaier at Nikolsburg
- The Teachings of Hübmaier
- Hübmaier the Martyr
- The Suppression of the Moravian Anabaptists
- “On the Sword”
Top Highlights
“There was but one other principle on which all Anabaptists were agreed: the supremacy of the Scriptures as a rule of faith and practice.” (Page 16)
“The radicals could find but one answer: A church of Christ is a congregation of true believers, giving token that they have been born again of the Spirit of God by living in accordance with the precepts of their Lord. A church composed of the regenerate only was the ideal of this party, and they pressed upon Zwingli the adoption of this as his programme.” (Pages 102–103)
“With the Anabaptist, the seat of authority is the declared will of God in the Scriptures, and the light of the Spirit is given to make these plain to him; and he is always to test the supposed voice of the Spirit to his soul by comparing these utterances carefully with the written word.” (Page 18)
“The reformation in that city was begun by the systematic exposition of the Scriptures, and from the first the principle was avowed that nothing was to be preached or practised which was not clearly taught in the word of God.” (Page 100)
“We have no real confidence at bottom in the ability of the truth to conquer error in a fair field, and are impelled from time to time to lend our invaluable aid—always, of course, on the side of right and truth and justice.” (Pages 88–89)
Professor Vedder has written an interesting biography of Hübmaier, and given a scholarly account of this reformer’s writings.
—Review of Theology and Philosophy
These ‘Anabaptists’ were the advance-guard of the Reformation—those in which the formative principles of evangelical religion found their purest expression; and their leaders were at least the peers of those whose names have come down to us clothed with more glory merely because the accidents of the time gave them more success. A carefully written and instructive volume.
—The Princeton Theological Review
The illustrations are well executed, and the biography is written with judgment and good taste.
—New York Observer
One needs to make a special study of this much-despised and slandered sect to form any conception of the importance of their influence, the heroism and, in many cases, sanctliness of their lives, and the atrocity of the treatment they received at the hands of the Catholics and Protestants. The volume is an exhaustive treatment of its subject, and an important contribution to history.
—The Christian Work and the Evangelist
- Title: Balthasar Hübmaier: The Leader of the Anabaptists
- Author: Henry C. Vedder
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- Publication Date: 1905
- Pages: 333