Sentences with phrase «anabaptists who»

Hutterites (German: Hutterer) are an ethnoreligious group that is a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to The Weirdness Censor trope as used in popular culture.

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The Mennonites constituted the majority of the Anabaptists who survived on the Continent of Europe.

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The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

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

The Anabaptists followed charismatic leaders who compelled their brainwashed followers to destroy private property, murder government leaders and property owners.

The inaugural and «emphatically Christian» prayer at the First Continental Congress was delivered by an Anglican minister, who overcame objections from the assembled Quakers, Anabaptists and Presbyterians.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

Kurt Willems is an Anabaptist writer and pastor who is preparing for church planting by finishing work towards a Master of Divinity degree at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.

Whilst many of the Reformation churches took over this teaching, the radical churches, such as the Mennonites, followers of Menno Simons (1496 - 1561), who in 1536 left the Catholic priesthood and joined the Anabaptists, preached nonresistance to evil.

Then, during the Crusades, there is the widespread slaughter of the Albegensians, who held to a dualistic rejection of all things material in order to achieve spiritual purity, and John Calvin who burned Servetus at the stake for denying the Trinity, and Zwingli who had several Anabaptists drowned for their belief in getting rebaptized as adults.

The book includes the famous story of Dirk Willems, an Anabaptist captured by Spanish inquisitors in Holland, who escaped from jail and was pursued across a frozen pond.

I too am drawn to the Anabaptist tradition and believe it has something really special to offer Christians who are tired of the culture wars, as well as something important to say about how a post-Christian culture in the U.S. might actually be good for the Church.

These are anabaptist, holiness, missional, generously orthodox leaning evangelicals (like myself) who see new perspectives on an authoritative scripture and new incarnational ways of doing church as the only way forward in a post-Christendom world.»

Soon after there appeared on the scene another group of Christians who took a stand for violence — not, like the Anabaptists, as a means of relieving the oppressed and improving society, but as a political tool.

Those that practice infant baptism, or those who are Anabaptists?

An extreme version of this produced the Anabaptists — literally meaning people who baptised again — who believed that infant baptism had no value whatever.

They took their name from Menno Simons (1496 - 1561), a native of the Low Countries who was a Roman Catholic priest and only slowly came to Anabaptist convictions.

In October of that year Conrad Grebel and others (who «became» the Anabaptist movement) challenged Zwingli's use of civil power to enforce religious conformity.

Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally conditioned evangelicals (i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).

Second, Anabaptists would do well not to judge the motives of those Christians who take up arms for their country.

Consider this quote from Stuart Murray's The Naked Anabaptist: «The Anabaptist movement began as a loose - knit coalition of groups who were forming in various places across central Europe — the sixteenth century equivalent of the «emerging church.

Interestingly enough, those who are more Anabaptist in their theology and ethos, tend to be more open to emerging church authors and issues.

Though these «Anabaptists of American education,» as I called parents who have opted for home - based schooling in The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

A Brief History of the Amish The Amish are direct descendants of the Anabaptists of 16th century Europe who rejected infant baptism and believed in the separation of church and state (which were entirely conjoined at the time).