Christian History Magazine—Issue 5: Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists
Overview
Fanatics, corner-preachers, mob-spirited factionalists, Donatists and revolutionaries were among the nicknames assigned to the 16th century Anabaptists. Their nonconformist, anti-institutional existence sparked an angry era of persecution by mainline Protestants which forced them to become an underground movement. Their beginnings, hardships and near-extinction are recorded in this issue of Christian History & Biography.
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Top Highlights
“Anabaptists are the originators of the ‘free church.’ Separation of church and state was an unthinkable and radical notion when it was introduced by the Anabaptists. Likewise their defense of religious liberty was regarded as an invitation to anarchy.” (source)
“in January 1527 Manz was publicly executed in Zurich by drowning for the crime of rebaptism.” (source)
“But Anabaptists, too, saw Münster as a terrible perversion of the Gospel and resolutely turned away from it. The most important person in the consolidation of nonviolent Anabaptism was the former priest Menno Simons.” (source)
“From the beginning Anabaptism was an underground movement that lost virtually all its leaders in the first two years.” (source)
“In May 1525, the first Anabaptist died for his faith in the canton of Schwyz” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 5: Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christian History Institute
- Print Publication Date: 1985
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Anabaptists › History
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.5
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:39:33Z