Sentences with phrase «various anabaptist»

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

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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.

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).

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.

In all three of the major Anabaptist Mennonite denominations (Mennonite, Brethren in Christ, and Mennonite Brethren), women serve as pastors in various roles.