The present article aims to analyze the origins, as well as the spatial and temporal extension of the 16th century radical reform known as Anabaptism. To this end, a number of European territories, ...in which this religious movement relied most strongly in the early years of its existence, have been selected: Switzerland, South Germany, Tyrol-Moravia, North Germany and the Netherlands. Within each region, the analysis focuses on the main characteristics of each community developed there, along with the relevant references to its main leaders. It has also been considered necessary to address its historical context and general characteristics for a greater and better understanding of this revolutionary phenomenon.
El presente artículo pretende analizar los orígenes, así como la extensión espacial y temporal de la reforma radical del siglo XVI conocida como anabaptismo. Con dicho fin, se han seleccionado una serie de territorios europeos en los que este movimiento religioso recaló con mayor fuerza en los primeros años de su existencia: Suiza, Alemania del Sur, Tirol-Moravia, Alemania del Norte y Países Bajos. Dentro de cada región, el análisis se centra en las características principales de cada comunidad allí desarrollada, junto con las referencias pertinentes a sus líderes principales. De igual modo se ha considerado necesario abordar su contexto histórico y características generales para una mayor y mejor comprensión de este fenómeno revolucionario.
Anabaptist Theology Jamie Pitts; Luis Tapia Rubio
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology,
10/2023
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Anabaptist theology is the expression and communication of theological convictions that have sustained the ordinary life of faith communities within the Anabaptist tradition of Christianity. ...Alongside this ordinary Anabaptist theology, a more formal, ‘academic’ version has developed since at least the eighteenth century. In this respect, this article will first address some methodological issues and then present a historical overview of Anabaptist theology, from the emergence of Anabaptism in the Reformation era to recent global developments. The article concludes with an examination of some key theological issues within the Anabaptist theological tradition, namely, the status of confessional documents, biblical interpretation, Christology, discipleship, salvation, and ecclesiology.
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Previous studies on the emergence of Swiss Anabaptism focus on the confluence of religious, political, social, and economic factors as explanatory causes. This article, while not disputing ...such approaches, instead investigates the interpretive constructions that early Anabaptist leader Conrad Grebel applied to his own experiences. Using Stephen Greenblatt's notion of self-fashioning, it analyzes Grebel's extant correspondence to argue that Grebel progressively came to view himself as a persecuted prophet, an identity that fueled his resistance to Zwingli and his reforming zeal. The article closes by suggesting the implications of such an approach for future studies on Anabaptism and on prophecy in the Reformation more broadly.
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Menno Simons
Encyclopædia Britannica Online,
07/2020
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This article examines the convention in Anabaptist historiography that Menno Simons (1496–1561) and in his wake Dirk Philips (1504–1568) increasingly stabilized the Anabaptist movement and built an ...extensive Anabaptist network in the Habsburg Netherlands/Northern Germany, from Friesland and Groningen to Holland and Flanders in the west and to Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein to Poland in the east and back. The focus is on the development of Anabaptism on the Lower Rhine, in particular on the de-centralized religious leadership of local, cross-border Anabaptist bishops. It challenges the consensus narrative in the historiography of an alleged central role of Menno and Dirk and demonstrates that during the formative years 1540–1550, Anabaptism on the Lower Rhine and in the Habsburg Netherlands/Northern Germany was polyphonic, represented by itinerant local bishops, each with their own – albeit overlapping – network.
Thinking inside the Cages Driedger, Michael
Nova religio,
05/2018, Letnik:
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This essay uses the method of historiographical criticism to reexamine the frameworks used to research the relationship between apocalypse and violence. Its focus is the presentation of Anabaptist ...rule at Münster in the mid-1530s. New religions scholars and historians alike often cite this case as evidence of how millenarian prophecy can lead believers to violent actions. The essay demonstrates that this view is based largely on anti-Anabaptist and anti-sectarian propaganda that has its origins in the medieval and early modern eras. Partly because of the popularity of Norman Cohn’s The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), which translated older polemical interpretations of religious outsiders into a modern scholarly form, hostile assumptions about Anabaptist violence have found their way into academic debates today. The essay shows that the distorting effects of these kinds of assumptions are not limited at all to the case of Anabaptist Münster, but in fact shape unhelpfully the way scholars conceptualize more generally the relationship between dissenting “sects” and established “churches.” “Thinking outside the cages” of polemically derived conceptualizations can form the basis for cross-disciplinary research on believers under siege.
In the polemically-charged world of the sixteenth century, Anabaptist sects were often portrayed by the early magisterial Reformers as merely the latest iteration of another purist, rebaptizing brand ...of heretic: the Donatist church of North Africa. By mapping Anabaptism onto this paradigm, its opponents could safely dismiss its theology by appealing to the writings of Augustine. But there was another reason why the slur was often cast against the Anabaptist movement, one with more political overtones: Donatists, or more accurately a radical subset of the dissident church known as the “Circumcellions,” were commonly associated with sedition. In this article, I examine the ways in which the Circumcellion epithet was used to characterize the nascent Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century. By linking the “Donatist” beliefs of Anabaptist communities to the charge of “Circumcellion” sedition, their opponents were able to legitimate the use of force against them and negate their claims to martyrdom.
Balthasar Hubmaier is often called ‘the theologian of the Anabaptists’ for he was the only early Anabaptist leader with an earned doctorate. The former Catholic priest embraced the reforming thought ...of Erasmus, Zwingli, and eventually Zwingli’s former pupils (the Anabaptists) and led the Moravian city of Nikolsburg to become a bastion of Anabaptist thought and practice. The multi-dimensional religious landscape both afforded Hubmaier the opportunity and compelled him to author the first Anabaptist catechism. Through the work, Hubmaier articulated a clear and succinct portrayal of Anabaptist theology and ecclesiology summed up in the Erasmian tenet of the love of God and neighbor.
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