Under examination, he denied that he had made common cause with the Anabaptists and claimed to be no prophet but a mere witness of the Most High, but nevertheless refused the articles of faith proposed to him by the provincial synod.

Ainsworth died in 1622, or early in 1623, for in that year was published his Seasonable Discourse, or a Censure upon a Dialogue of the Anabaptists, in which the editor speaks of him as a departed worthy.

* 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.

This group strictly abstains from political involvement and military service, for reasons similar to those cited by earlier Anabaptists, and they point to such entanglements as another aspect of apostasy, or the willful rebellion against God and rejecting his Word of truth.

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.

Basel was slow to accept the Reformation ; the news of the Peasants ' War and the inroads of Anabaptists prevented progress ; but by 1525, it seemed as if the authorities were resolved to listen to schemes for restoring the purity of worship and teaching.

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.

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.

When a number of Flemish Anabaptists were taken by Elizabeth's government in 1572 and sentenced to be burnt, Foxe first wrote letters to the Queen and her council asking for their lives and then wrote the prisoners themselves ( having his Latin draft translated into Flemish ) pleading with them to abandon what he considered their theological errors.

Around 1671, because of persecution by the government and the state church, a large group of Anabaptists ( Mennonites ) left Switzerland for the Palatinate in Germany.

Most Anabaptists held that both the Old and New Testaments were the word of God, while insisting that the New Testament was the rule of faith and practice for the church.

Anabaptists Hans Denck and Ludwig Hätzer were responsible for the first translation of the Old Testament Prophets from Hebrew into the German language.

His services were evidently in great demand, for, though the city issued reprimands and warnings to desist, Marpeck continued his activities as a minister among the Anabaptists.

* Rules for a Film about Anabaptists, film by Georg Brintrup, Germany 1975 / 76

Rothmann based the legitimacy of the practice on a greater emphasis on the Old Testament than was common among most Anabaptists, as well as the Anabaptist view of marriage for the purpose of procreation.

Abecedarians were a 16th century German sect of Anabaptists who affected an absolute disdain for all human knowledge, contending that God would enlighten his elect from within themselves, giving them knowledge of necessary truths by visions and ecstasies, with which human learning would interfere.

From exclusively serving members of the Mennonite church in the early and mid 1900s, EMU has evolved to educating thousands far beyond its original constituency of “ Anabaptists ,” a broad term for Mennonites and kindred subscribers to the theology of Anabaptism.

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.

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

In 1554 – 1555 the question of the Religious Peace of Augsburg occupied his mind ; in 1556 the conference with Johannes a Lasco, in 1557 the Frankenthal conference with the Anabaptists and the Worms Colloquy ; in 1558 the edict against Schwenckfeld and the Anabaptists, and the Frankfort Recess ; in 1559 the plan for a synod of those who were related to the Augsburg Confession and the Stuttgart Synod, to protect Brenz's doctrine of the Lord's Supper against Calvinistic tendencies ; in 1563 and 1569 the struggle against Calvinism in the Electorate of the Palatinate ( Maulbronn Colloquy ) and the crypto-Calvinistic controversies.

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.

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

In the 16th century, German Anabaptists were branded with a cross on their foreheads for refusing to recant their faith and join the Roman Catholic church.

Anabaptists required that baptismal candidates be able to make their own confessions of faith and so rejected baptism of infants.

As a result of their views on the nature of baptism and other issues, Anabaptists were heavily persecuted during the 16th century and into the 17th by both Magisterial Protestants and Roman Catholics.

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.

Zwingli also clashed with the Anabaptists, which resulted in their persecution.

Calvinists, Anabaptists and Mennonites, angry with their being persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church and opposed to the Catholic images of saints ( which in their eyes conflicted with the Second Commandment ), destroyed statues in hundreds of churches and monasteries throughout the Netherlands.

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

However, the town was recaptured in 1535 ; the Anabaptists were tortured to death, their corpses were exhibited in cages, which can still be seen hanging on the Tower of St. Lambert's steeple.

For example, some Amish and Mennonites came to the Palatinate and surrounding areas from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where, as Anabaptists, they were persecuted, and so their stay in the Palatinate was of limited duration.

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.

It is important to avoid confusing it with the Catholic excommunication as it is normally practiced to-day based on the word " excommunication ", as the current Catholic practice favors maintaining some relationship with the excommunicant whereas the herem is more akin to " shunning " as practiced by Anabaptists and some of their descendant communities.

He first encountered Anabaptists in Klagenfurt and soon thereafter was converted to their belief.

Under Hutter's leadership, several of the congregations adopted the early Christian practice of communal ownership of goods, in additions to their Anabaptists beliefs of nonviolence, and adult baptism.

* Bernese Anabaptists and their American Descendants, by Delbert L. Grätz

Menno Simons accepted this view, probably received from the peaceful Melchiorites Obbe and Dirk Philips, and it became the general belief of Dutch Anabaptists in the first century of their existence.

Rothmann's view of the incarnation would be the predominant view among Dutch Anabaptists in their first century of history ( though Hoffman is much more the source ).

Karl Kautsky however, in his Communism in Central Europe at the Time of the Reformation, notes that this picture of Anabaptist Münster is based almost entirely on accounts written by the Anabaptists ' enemies, who sought to justify their bloody reconquest of the city.

Alexanderwohl Church families trace their roots to the Dutch Anabaptists of the 16th century.

While Marx and Engels struggled with the intricacies of industrial capitalism and modern modes of production, Weitling revived the apocalyptic politics of the sixteenth-century Münster Anabaptists and their gory attempts to usher in the Second Coming.