Sentences with phrase «anabaptist faith»

He is the pastor of Little Flowers Community, a Franciscan - Anabaptist faith community in Winnipeg's downtown West End.

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Though we speak many languages, have different ethnic origins, and express our faith in diverse ways, we all claim the Anabaptists in 16th century Europe as our spiritual ancestors.

Anabaptists rejected the practice of infant baptism, for instance, believing that water baptism should be reserved for believers who confess a faith in Jesus.

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

In the 17th century, both Catholics and Protestants systematically executed Anabaptists for holding to the «heresy» that a confession of faith should precede baptism.

Witness the emphasis on a canon within the canon, Luther's response to the Anabaptists on the question of infant baptism, as well as both Reformers» insistence that the Word always stands in juxtaposition to faith and that neither is possible without the activity of the Holy Spirit.

They were called Anabaptists because they insisted that the baptism of infants was not true baptism, that only believers should be baptized, and that if an individual had been baptized in infancy, after he had the experience of being justified by faith he should be re-baptized.