"What shall I do? The more I kill the greater becomes their number!": the suppression of Anabaptism in early sixteenth century
The Anabaptist movement was a ‘common man’s reform movement’ in Luther’s Europe. The Anabaptists wanted to reform the church according to New Testament guidelines more radically than either Luther or Zwingli were ready to do. For example, they baptised adults instead of infants, because they had obs...
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Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
2006-01-01
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Series: | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis |
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Online Access: | https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67308 |