Sentences with phrase «many anabaptist»

There the Presbyterian confides in the Anabaptist, and the Churchman depends on the Quaker's word.

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.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

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 are committed to an ecclesiology where every gift and voice is valued.

Not that I think bad theology is a good idea, but for Anabaptists, living the Kingdom and doing right (orthopraxy) has always taken precedence over theorizing about the Kingdom and being right (hyper - orthodoxy).

I read J. Denny Weaver's survey of Anabaptist origins, Becoming Anabaptist, and I was seduced!

Anabaptist worship is the idea that everyone can bring a psalm, hymn or spiritual song.

• Anabaptists are passionate pacifists.

So whether you're Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian or Pentecostal, you can live the Anabaptist tradition.

Anabaptists rejected Reformation structure that put city council as the governing body over churches.

Anabaptists have found life outside of power, popularity and reputation.

During the Reformation, Anabaptists insisted on following literally Jesus» command not to swear any oath, while Calvinists and Lutherans adhered to the traditional Roman Catholic use of religious oaths as an important expression of the religious foundations of political obligations.

Leave the Anabaptists, and become a real Christian.

The Anabaptist rejection of oaths was not merely an interpretative quarrel, but was understood more deeply as a part of the Anabaptist rejection of Christian involvement in political and military affairs.

I don't want to come off as an anabaptist, but it's so true!

Because they understood the exercise of state power to be inconsistent with the church's identity and mission, Anabaptists also advocated for the strict separation of church and state.

In Niebuhr's memorable typology, the «Christ against culture» position is generally associated with the anabaptists, Tolstoyans, and various sects that position themselves as communal alternatives to the larger society, based of course not on ethnic distinctives but on fidelity to the gospel.

The drowning of anabaptists by baptists.

The Anabaptists agreed with most of the ideas of the Protestant Reformation but felt that reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin didn't go far enough.

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.

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

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

It was experiential religion, whether Catholic Holy Week liturgies in Rome, black Baptist call - and - response preaching and hymnody in Harlem, or Anabaptist communitarianism, that never failed to grab him.

Calvinism qua TULIP is much easier to delineate, articulate, and defend, than the Arminian, Lutheran, Catholic, or pre-Reformation Anabaptist equivalent.

Similarly, but more narrowly, to believe that Christian participation in war is sometimes justified is to no longer be an Anabaptist.

Calvinism has lines that are attractive to certain forms of toxicity, while Arminianism or the Anabaptist orientation... Orthodoxy... Catholicism, each has elements easily turned into toxicity.

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

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.

I can't speak for Neil Cole, but I know that Anabaptist ideas and teachings are somewhat in the background of Free Grace churches.

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).

I've been saying I've become more and more anabaptist in my walk.

I think Anabaptists did form some background.

The scholars during Luther's time persecuted many Christians, and then the Calvinist scholars persecuted the anabaptists horribly.

Osheta Moore is an Assembly - of - God - Methodist - Southern - Baptist - a-teryn turned Anabaptist living in Boston.

To make that point I must list the antecedents they cite: Marcionites, Montanists, Novatians, Donatists, Paulicians, Albigensians, Waldensians, Lollards, Hussites, Savonarolans, Anabaptists, Mennonites, Baptists, Pietists, Methodists, Brethren, Plymouth Brethren, Quakers, Disciples.

In a sense, what it means to be a mainline Protestant, as opposed to a Catholic or an Anabaptist, is that one can not be excommunicated for anything (except, apparently, for joining the Klan).

The Council of Trent must become a part of the inner history of Protestants, and Luther and the Anabaptists must become part of the inner history of Catholics.

It's not about John Calvin or the persecution of the Anabaptist or those «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirts.

(Just ask the Anabaptists!)

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.

The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada where thousands of people connect to God and each other through Sunday services, online interaction, and a widespread house church network.

Melchior Hoffman, an Anabaptist prophet, predicted that the world would burn in 1533CE.

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 Verbum).

The Anabaptist one?

Anabaptist writings made their way into American pulpits.

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.