Sentences with phrase «of anabaptists»

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).

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 Amish, a sect of the Anabaptists, have several beliefs and practices that may seem a little strange to us.

On can understand this rejection of the Anabaptists only if one is mindful of the fact that, when the Reformers were confronted with the task of building church orders of their own, they found it inevitable to adhere to the principles and practices of religious and creedal uniformity.

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.

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

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.

(I'm thinking of the Crusades, the Inquisition, geocentricism, the persecution of the Anabaptists, the use of Scripture to defend slave ownership and segregation, young earth creationism, etc..)

There followed a year of cruel tyranny and chaos which looked like a justification of what had been written about the dangers of Anabaptists to the State.

That weighty tome tells the stories of martyrs, beginning with Jesus and the apostles, with special attention to the persecution and execution of Anabaptists in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Generations of Anabaptists were raised in homes where a copy of Martyrs Mirror sat alongside the family Bible.

You can also check out the 16th century writings of the Anabaptists, or read all the John Howard Yoder your little aspiring peacemaking hearts can handle.

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.

The drowning of anabaptists by baptists.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We have many Hutterites here and they have never been anything but humble and hardworking, though I think their theology is wrong because of the Anabaptist radical understanding.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.»

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.

According to the subtitle of A Generous Orthodoxy, he himself is a «missional + evangelical + post / protestant + liberal / conservative + mystical / poetic + biblical + charismatic / contemplative + fundamentalist / calvinist + anabaptist / anglican + methodist + catholic + green + incarnational + depressed - yet - hopeful + emergent + unfinished CHRISTIAN.»

The Anabaptist position has as its chief evangelical defenders John Howard Yoder, Dale Brown and Arthur Gish; it is also given popular expression regularly in the pages of the Post American.

He includes sacred places of interest to Catholics, evangelicals, Anabaptists, Lutherans and Baptists.

Baptists are indeed heirs of the Reformation, but they are not, nor have they ever been, mere clones of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, the Anabaptists, or anyone else.

The only exceptions in the 16th century were among the radical reformers involved in the Peasant's Revolt (1524 - 25), and the militant Anabaptists of Muenster (1534)

And here, as before, the increasingly felt influence in evangelical circles of Calvinist and Anabaptist traditions can be significant.

Wilson agrees, and as an Anabaptist theologian he recognizes the resources in his church to create precisely the sort of new monasticism for which MacIntyre calls.

Nor has the Anabaptist emphasis on the reconstruction of the church been effective in changing society.

Reba's participation in a network of similar Anabaptist fellowships in the Shalom Mission Communities also stands in contrast to Servant King's independent status.