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After the rebellion was suppressed a rather pious but nonetheless harsh converted priest named Menno Simons collected the dispersed elements and attempted to direct them into more peaceful channels. Other leaders, like David J oris, continued the radical spiritualism if not the civil disorder.

In this picture of the movement historians have insisted on regarding more highly the similarities rather than the differences in religious ideas of men such as Miintzer, Storch, Carlstadt, Grebel, Manz, Sattler, Denk, Marpeck, Matthys, Jan van Leyden, Joris, and Menno Simons. Even a cursory perusal of the writings of the Reformers - particularly those of Luther, Melanchthon, Menius, and Bullinger - reveals the identity of this traditional picture with that of the sixteenth-century polemicists.

Author : Malcolm B. Author : James M. While recognizing the importance of the nonresistance tradition among Anabaptists, the book gives equal attention to more militant elements in Anabaptism. It is also pioneering in giving attention to Anabaptist practice as well as Anabaptist teaching on this subject. The book begins with the birth of Anabaptism in the city of Zurich and follows the Anabaptists as they search for religious freedom across the European Continent. Author : Henry S.

The Swiss Anabaptists had a part, however in the great movement, which, as Dorner says, extended through all Germany; from Swabia and Switzerland, along the Rhine to Holland and Friesland; from Bavaria, Middle Germany, Westphalia, and Saxony, as far as Holstein and though they were apparently defeated, the story of their heroic sufferings should be faithfully recorded.

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If the later, it becomes the task for the student of Church History to reject the formal succession of the socially powerful but spiritually unworthy representatives of the history of what Christ is building for His name. The student must try to trace the lives of those who were truly called to lead the Church of the Savior and to trace their accomplishments, the movements they spawned, and the notable events that intertwined their lives with the secular events of their day.

William R. It belongs on the fringe of Anabaptist life, which was completely divorced from the evangelical, biblical heart of the movement.

Remarks will be made in the critique section of this review as to the appropriateness of using quotation marks for that term by Estep and others in the evangelical, baptistic tradition.

Specifically, he points to the students of Zwingli in Zurich, Switzerland, especially Conrad Grebel as responsible for bringing Anabaptism into existence. Grebel and a few others felt Zwingli was not willing to take the church back to its original New Testament design.

The newly baptized then pledged themselves as true disciples of Christ to live lives separated from the world and to teach the gospel and hold the faith.

With this first baptism, the earliest church of the Swiss Brethren was constituted. The inspirationists and rationalists rejected the infant baptism of the Catholics and Reformers along 7 Estep, p.

To know the stories of these dozen men is to know the foundation and development of Anabaptism in the 16th century. Though he spent a third of that time in prison for his faith, he had already personally baptized in the Sitter River perhaps as many as from the city of St. Gall, east of Zurich. Estep repeats the death sentence Sattler received18 after his trial in May.

Sattler was gruesomely tortured on his way to his execution, which was by burning. But he influenced not only south Germany, but Switzerland and Moravia. He also was one of those who disputed with Zwingli publicly, and as a result he was required to leave the Canton of Zurich. His travels and ministry took him through southern Germany and into Moravia and back to Germany.

He is reported to have baptized Michael Sattler and Balthasar Hubmaier. Lutheran, Reformed, and even Catholic witnesses were never quite able to get away from the scene of that infamous day in Rottenburg. Hans Denck had been baptized by Hubmaier when Hubmaier was still ministering in Waldshut, a hub of Anabaptist activity in southern Germany.

This was primarily because Hubmaier was chief pastor and theologian there. Denck had started his pilgrimage into Anabaptism apart from the influence of the Swiss Brethren. After his baptism, he ministered effectively in Augsburg, Strasbourg, Worms, and Basel. But he was also an irritation to many of his fellow Anabaptists because of his chiliast and anti-government of the same authorities who executed Michael and Margaretha Sattler.

He ministered about the same amount of time as Denck, dying only a month after him. He died while in prison after having been tortured for his faith. It included four tracts and several hymns, some of which, ironically enough, later found their way into Lutheran and Reformed hymnals.

So too was Pilgram Marpeck. Marpeck converted to Anabaptism and because of it lost everything. He then moved to the more tolerant city of Strasbourg, Germany and ministered there effectively for the Anabaptist cause from to after Reublin had been expelled.

Afterwards, he attempted to unite the Anabaptists of the Tyrol and Moravia, but without success. He spent his last years until in Augsburg ministering for the Anabaptist cause mainly through his theological writings, working again as a civil engineer. While holding the Scriptures to be the Word of God, he made a distinction between the purpose of the Old Testament and that of the New.