Anabaptists ( originally a pejorative title, meaning " re-baptizers ", from Greek ανα and βαπτιζω ) are Christians of the Radical Reformation.

Anabaptists assert that the only proper translation for the Greek verb baptizmo is immerse.

Protestant historians would typically argue that this is historically what the Christian church was before Emperor Constantine and the State church of the Roman Empire, see Early Christianity, and did not appear again until the Protestant Reformation in groups such as the Calvinists and some particular radical movements such as the Anabaptists.

* February 27 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster in Westphalia and declare it " The New Jerusalem ", begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

This last issue was referring to the " good-hearted ," meaning those who sympathized with the Anabaptists and even helped them materially in times of persecution, but who would not take the step of rebaptism.

They were thus technically Anabaptists, even though Conservative Mennonites, Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites and some historians tend to consider them as outside of true Anabaptism.

These core beliefs are shared by the Anabaptists who belong to the conservative Mennonite streams ( including the Old Order, horse-and-buggy-driving groups ) – who tend to dress distinctively and to live separately from mainstream society, thus avoiding higher education – as well as those modern Anabaptists who attend EMU and who go on to become physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, lawyers, business people, teachers and other highly educated citizens fully functioning in the larger world.

During and after the Reformation, the word " Donatist " ( sometimes " neo-Donatist ") was commonly used by the magisterial reformers as an incriminating label for the more radical reformers such as the Anabaptists.

Jack ( named for John Calvin, but whom Swift also connects to " Jack of Leyden ") represents the various Dissenting Protestant churches such as Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Congregationalists, or Anabaptists.

Two Anabaptists, Caroli and Benoit, are to challenge you and William to a debate before the Council.

* The Hutterites or Hutterian Brethren are descendants of German, Swiss, and Tyrolean Anabaptists led by Jacob Hutter, who was burned at the stake in 1536 for refusing to renounce his faith.

says that ' infants ought to be baptized ;' that, dying in infancy, they ' shall undoubtedly be saved thereby, and else not ;' that the opinions of Anabaptists and Pelagians are ' detestable heresies, and utterly to be condemned.

Hutterites () are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are a people of various religious affiliations, most of them Lutheran or Reformed, but many Anabaptists as well.

However, the conspicuous austerity of life among many sects accused of antinomianism ( such as Anabaptists or Calvinists ) suggests that these accusations are often, or even mostly, made for rhetorical effect.

The Anabaptists, Barton W. Stone and the Holiness Movement are examples of this form of restorationism.

They are part of the post-reformation Anabaptists ( which include, among others, the Amish and Mennonites ), who rejected baptism of infants as a biblically valid form of baptism.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

The Nebraska Amish are perhaps the most conservative group of Old Order Amish, descendants of the Anabaptists and Mennonites.

The congregations of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite are descendants of the Anabaptists of the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.

The Swiss Mennonites are the oldest and possibly the most influential body of Anabaptists.

The Russian Mennonites are a group of Mennonites descended from Dutch and mainly Germanic Prussian Anabaptists who established colonies in South Russian Empire ( present-day Ukraine ) beginning in 1789.

The Anabaptists of 16th century Europe are sometimes considered to be religious forerunners of modern anarchism.

Ridley denied that early church practices are normative for the present situation, and he linked such primitivist arguments with the Anabaptists.

* 1527-Martyrs ' Synod — organized by Anabaptists, it is the first Protestant missionary conference

Religious dissenters ( Catholics as well as different Protestant denominations such as Anabaptists ) were put to death at Smithfield in the course of the changes in the religious orientation of the Crown, since King Henry VIII.

Other Protestant groups that have been accused of antinomianism include the Anabaptists and Mennonites.

Neither the Anabaptists nor the Calvinists were protected under the peace, so many Protestant groups living under the rule of a Lutheran prince still found themselves in danger of the charge of heresy.

Foot washing is observed by numerous Protestant and proto-Protestant groups, including Seventh-day Adventist, Pentecostal, and Pietistic groups, some Anabaptists, and several types of Baptists.

Anabaptists, who took the idea of deriving new societal rules from the direct study of biblical sources even further than the Protestant reformers only into conflict not only with the established Churches over the question of baptism but also with the civil authorities because, not having found any biblical justification, they refused to pay taxes or to accept any authority.

The meaning of the label " Protestant " widened over time to embrace all Western Christians as distinguished from the Roman Catholic Church, except for the Anabaptists and other Radical Reformers.

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

However the term has its origin in the descriptions of Eusebius of Caesarea and John of Damascus of mortalist views among Arab Christians, In the 1960s also this phrase was applied also to the views of Tyndale, Luther and others engaged in mortal introspection, from awareness that Calvin's term Psychopannychia originally described his own belief, not the belief he was calling error as well as in view of the Anabaptists, since their own writings held that the soul dies and the dead sleep.

The Bruderhof movement draws inspiration and guidance from a number of historical streams including the early Christians, the Anabaptists and the German Youth Movement.

Interpretation of the baptismal practices of the early church is important to groups such as Baptists and Anabaptists, who believe that infant baptism was a later development, yet the early Christian writings mentioned above, which date from the 2nd and 3rd century clearly show that the early Christians did maintain such practice.

Like many of the Anabaptists, Lipscomb disavowed most involvement by a Christian with government ; as far as he was concerned, faithful Christians had absolutely no business voting in elections or serving on juries.

Though it is difficult to sum up almost five centuries of evolution and differentiation among the Anabaptists, five distinctive attributes of Anabaptist Christians can be discerned: Firstly, they do not practice infant baptism – they believe it is important for someone to be old enough to make a mature choice about whether to be baptized and to be a church member.

The early Anabaptists believed that the Reformation must purify not only theology but also the actual lives of Christians, especially in what had to do with political and social relationships.

Although Anabaptists began with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century, certain people and groups may still legitimately be considered their forerunners due to a similar approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches fully adopt this position ; among Radical Reformation groups, the early Anabaptists came close, and modern Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Hutterites come closest.

The ideal of individual religious tolerance on a national level was, however, not addressed: neither the Reformed nor Radical churches ( Calvinists and Anabaptists being the prime examples ) were protected under the peace ( and Anabaptists would reject the principle of cuius regio eius religio in any case ).

In the Reformation the Radical Reformation of Anabaptists and Early Unitarians, and later Dissenters combined Christian mortalism with eschatological views emphasizing the future aspect of the kingdom of God and the Second Coming.

His ideas appear to be a middle ground between the ways of the Reformation of Martin Luther, John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli, and the Radical Reformation of the Anabaptists.

In addition to the Anabaptists, other Radical Reformation movements have been identified.