Sentences with phrase «from anabaptists»

The dangerous Baptist cult is directly descended from the Anabaptist movement in 16th century Europe.

In thinking about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin College has drawn heavily on the legacy of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees with Mark Noll's observation that recent evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»

Not exact matches

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.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

While such severe forms of ecclesial discipline are rare in Anabaptist or Catholic circles, and problematic when exercised (as in the case of the Catholic Church barring remarried persons from communion), they remain options that help define those communities.

He has also learned from the Eastern Orthodox Jesus (culled from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), the Roman Catholic Jesus (from Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton), the Anabaptist Jesus (with his way of nonviolence), the Jesus of the Oppressed (from liberation theologians) and, most strikingly, the liberal Protestant Jesus.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

Various Anabaptist groups created colonies from Pennsylvania to the Great Plains.

In his books relating to the church, Bonhoeffer dissociates himself from «the fanatics and enthusiasts,» a term equated with pietists and probably those of the Anabaptist tradition.

For example, I carry assumptions about individualism and free enterprise that come from growing up on a farm, and biblical assumptions that came from growing up in a pietistic Anabaptist family and church.

The new religious identities and communities which emerged from these conflicts — Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and the more radical groupings often lumped together under the name «Anabaptist» — did indeed share some beliefs and attitudes in common.

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.

Much of the recent theological reflection on martyrdom has come from thinkers in the Anabaptist tradition — not surprising, perhaps, since that church's historic refusal to use violence often resulted in Anabaptists being targets of violence.

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.

Spiritual heirs of the Anabaptists — the religious revolutionaries of 16th century Europe — the Baptists we know today emerged from the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in the first decade of the 17th century.

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).

The first Christian conscientious objectors were from Mennonite and southern German Anabaptist churches.

The sharp, black - and - white divisions between church and government which some of the sixteenth - century Anabaptists experienced is going to be different from the experience of most North American Christians in the twentieth century.

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.

Unlike the other converts, Gerald Schlabach does not come from a magisterial Protestant tradition of state churches — though some other Anabaptists, like Yoder, have argued that the Mennonites also pursue a catholic (small «c») vision of the church.

From 1525 on, Anabaptists were active wherever the Reformation took hold.

Other exemptions: Also exempt are members of Indian tribes, persons with only brief gaps in coverage, and members of certain religious groups currently exempt from Social Security taxes (which as we've previously reported are chiefly Anabaptist — that is, Mennonite, Amish or Hutterite).