Thursday, October 6, 2016

Who were the Anabaptists and what did they believe ?

The Anabaptists
were a movement that arose probably around 1522 in Europe, primarly in Germany. There were also
Anabaptist communities the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. Anabaptists believed that
adults should accept Christ by being baptized, even if they had already been baptized
previously. The meaning of Anabaptist is "one who baptizes again." Calvinists would
use "Anabaptist" in a pejorative sense for any sect that did not...

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