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James M. Stayer used the term Anabaptist for those who rebaptized persons already "baptized" in infancy. Walter Klaassen was perhaps the first Mennonite scholar to define Anabaptists that way in his 1960 Oxford dissertation. This represents a rejection of the previous standard held by Mennonite scholars such as Bender and Friedmann.
Anabaptist theology, also known as Anabaptist doctrine, is a theological tradition reflecting the doctrine of the Anabaptist Churches. The major branches of Anabaptist Christianity (inclusive of Mennonites , Amish , Hutterites , Bruderhof , Schwarzenau Brethren , River Brethren and Apostolic Christians ) agree on core doctrines but have nuances ...
Samuel Heinrich Fröhlich (Swiss Standard German: [ˈfrøːlɪç]; July 4, 1803 – January 15, 1857) was a Swiss Anabaptist evangelist, theologian, and the founder of the Evangelical Baptist Church, known as Neutäufer (New Anabaptists) in Switzerland and the Apostolic Christian Church in North America. His work contributed to the development ...
Grebel died of the plague in 1526. [3]: 7 Balthasar Hubmaier was the foremost theologian of the Swiss Brethren. Balthasar Hubmaier (c. 1480 – 1528) was one of the most well-known and respected Anabaptist theologians of the Reformation. He was born in Friedberg, Bavaria around 1480.
Dutch Anabaptism: Origin, Spread, Life and Thought (1450–1600), by Cornelius Krahn; The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism, by William Roscoe Estep ISBN 0-8028-0886-7; The Complete Writings of Menno Simons…, transl. by Leonard Verduin and ed. by John C. Wenger, with a biography by Harold S. Bender ISBN 0-8361 ...
Obbe led the Dutch Anabaptists until around 1540, but lost faith in the Anabaptist way and withdrew from the church. Around 1560, Philips wrote his Confession: Recollections of the Years 1533–1536, which was published after his death by Cornelius Claesz. In it he wrote, "I am still miserable of heart today, that I...was so shamefully and ...
He escaped capture by the authorities because other captured Anabaptists would not reveal his whereabouts, even under severe torture. Hutter arrived in Moravia in 1533, when the persecution of the Anabaptists in Tyrol was at its peak. Many Anabaptists from the Palatinate, Swabia and Silesia also went to Moravia. Hutter united the local ...
An Anabaptist believed that one should be baptized when a conscious decision had been made to become a follower and believer in Jesus Christ. [3] While the popular view that Anabaptism is an offshoot of Protestantism is not inherently false, it fared a very different treatment from the Protestant states at the time since their followers had dissenting beliefs from mainstream reformers.