Anabaptists in a sentence

The presence of some small groups of violent Anabaptists was causing political and religious turmoil in her state, so she decreed that all Anabaptists were to be driven out.

Because while the Anabaptists were having trouble expanding their little Münster Autonomous Zone, they were for a time quite successful in bringing about social change within it.

Anabaptists ("re-baptizers") and Baptists promote adult baptism, or " believer's baptism ".

Anabaptists were persecuted largely because of their interpretation of scripture that put them at odds with official state church interpretations and government.

Anabaptists were socially very radical and equalitarian; they believed that the apocalypse was very near.

Any known Anabaptists in the army were specifically discharged.

Conrad Grebel wrote in a letter to Thomas Müntzer in 1524: error Origins Medieval forerunners Anabaptists are considered to have begun with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century.

Hence many other Christians saw the Anabaptists as subversive of all order.

His name became associated with scattered groups of nonviolent Anabaptists whom he helped to organize and consolidate.

However, the relations between Baptists and Anabaptists were early strained.

In 1566, the wave of iconoclasm known as the Beeldenstorm was a prelude to religious war between Catholics and Protestants, especially the Anabaptists.

In 1624, the then five existing Baptist churches of London issued a condemnation of the Anabaptists.

Knox retorted that the Bible notes that Israel was punished when it followed an unfaithful king and that the Continental reformers were refuting arguments made by the Anabaptists who rejected all forms of government.

Later, in his conflict with the Anabaptists, he defended the practice of infant baptism, noting that there is no law forbidding the practice.

Ludwig Keller, Thomas M. Lindsay, H. C. Vedder, Delbert Grätz, John T. Christian and Thieleman J. van Braght (author of Martyrs Mirror ) all held, in varying degrees, the position that the Anabaptists were of Waldensian origin.

Roman Catholics and Protestants alike persecuted the Anabaptists, resorting to torture and execution in attempts to curb the growth of the movement.

Schisms Prior to emigration to America, Anabaptists in Europe were divided between those of Dutch/North German and Swiss/South German background.

Some hold the idea that the Waldensians are part of the apostolic succession, while others simply believe they were an independent group out of whom the Anabaptists arose.

The Anabaptists tended to make a nominal distinction between faith and obedience.

The Protestants under Zwingli were the first to persecute the Anabaptists, with Felix Manz becoming the first martyr in 1527.