Sentences with phrase «anabaptists by»

Downing's examples include: the Church's stubborn marriage to geocentricism, the brutal persecution of the Anabaptists by Protestants for believing that confession should precede baptism, the use of Scripture to support owning slaves and marginalizing women.

In a Memorandum of 1536, he and Melancthon advised Philip of Hesse that Anabaptists by their rejection of government, private property and other social structures were in effect guilty of deliberate sedition, and this in spite of the hesitations of Philip of Hesse himself.

The drowning of anabaptists by baptists.

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For Luther, for instance, the error of the Anabaptists was a capital offense: Those seeking a second baptism were to be put to death by drowning.

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.

By the same token, some Anabaptists allowed Scripture (the externum Verbum) to be authoritative in practice only insofar as its teaching was authenticated by inner experience (the internum VerbumBy the same token, some Anabaptists allowed Scripture (the externum Verbum) to be authoritative in practice only insofar as its teaching was authenticated by inner experience (the internum Verbumby inner experience (the internum Verbum).

Why did it disappear, being replaced by the Catholic Church for over a thousand y ears, then begin to reappear with the Waldenses, the Protestants, and the Anabaptists?

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).

By the way, if you want some specific examples other than the most famous example of the crusades, study what the church did to other «Christians» such as the Donatists, Paulicans, Cathars, Albigensians, Waldensians and numerous others, including the slaughter of the Anabaptists and other splinter groups throughout Christian history.

I suggested that this would be an ecumenical effort since I thought by presenting the work of John Howard Yoder to Catholics and Lutherans I would help them see they shared much in common — namely, that Catholics and Lutherans had always assumed it was a good thing to kill the Anabaptists.

Articulated by editor Jim Wallis in his book Agenda for Biblical People, as well as by editorials and articles by the staff, the Sojourners position reflects a Christian radicalism steeped in the Anabaptist tradition - one committed to rigorous discipleship, corporate life - style, and societal critique.

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.

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post / protestant, liberal / conservative, mystical / poetic, biblical, charismatic / contemplative,... anabaptist / anglican, metho (emergentYS) by Brian McLaren — Brian McLaren has, obviously, been influential in my life through his work and writings.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

Perhaps so, but upholding the claim in any meaningful sense would seem to require repristinating and universalizing the disputes of sixteenth - century Europe that gave definition to the theological shibboleths by which Christians identified their bloody divisions as Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, Anabaptists, and whatever.

Disarming Scripture — Derek Flood Dying to Religion and Empire — Jeremy Myers A Living Alternative — Several contributing Anabaptist authors Crucifixion of the Warrior God — Greg Boyd Stricken by God — Several contributing authors

I try to be anabaptist in these sort of things, but by golly, I just can't do it!

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.

United by an «Anabaptist conception of church» and the «scandalous conviction» that «where two or three are gathered together in the name of a redeeming Love that defies the powers of shame and death, the meaning and destiny of all creation are revealed,» this little group ordained Loney as a pastor to the men on Georgia's death row in January of 1985.

The year before Luther and Melancthon wrote their Memorandum, there occurred the violent take - over of the town of Munster by Anabaptists, declaring they had guidance and revelation to unseat the government.

It preserved above all the idea of divine initiative in an objectively significant sacramental act; it was signed by a wide range of representatives except for the Anabaptists.

Anabaptist began by stripping the sacraments of effect and by demanding extra holy things, which turn the person in on himself or rely on some other new outward performances.

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.

Luther's original conception was realized by the Anabaptists and the so - called «enthusiasts» (Schwärmer), as he mockingly characterized them.

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

The sturdy, timber - framed building was «raised» by the hands of those in the Anabaptist community it serves just outside of Strasburg, PA..

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.