I want to learn more about the Anabaptist movement's origins. I am not religious, but I grew up in a high anabaptist population region and am curious.
I have read a bit about Zwingli, Hubmaier, Mann, etc. I want to learn about the broader social context, as I know there were uprisings, wars, etc.
Any books or historians you suggest?
Or, anyone care to do a breakdown of anything you know of this era of Swiss history?
Cheers
And if so, how did Protestants respond?
I know Classical sources, a lot of them pre-Christian, were highly regarded and widely known. But the eyes reading them and minds interpreting them lived in a Catholic world, which I'm sure impacted their writings.
What changed when that stopped being true in large regions of Europe?
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Islam, Mormonism and Anabaptists all seek to reform Christianity to a new form so I often wonder what the major thinkers thought of eachother.
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Do we have any idea of the origin of the Zwickau Prophets' theology? Their millenarianism and rejection of scriptural authority and infant baptism were pretty novel as far as I can tell. Were there earlier spiritualist, millenarian movements or theologians they might have drawn from? As a follow-up, what impact did they have on the later radical reformation? I know Muntzer was from Zwickau and was said to be one of their original disciples, but is this true? Thanks!
Question on the Reformation. Need some blanks filled on regarding a radical sect that came up during the reformation.
I remember hearing about a sect that grew out of the reformation (most likely anabaptists) who took to some pretty radical ideas such as collectivisation and what we would call free love, liberal interpretation of marriage (if it was thought of at all) and developed the doctrine of Sin is good because what is important about the Christian experience is that forgiveness, so go sin so you can be forgiven again.
I know the anabaptists were persecuted by both Catholic and Protestants and I think/assume these guys were too. I vaguely remember hearing that the town that this heresy developed in was simply destroyed or at least everyone in it was killed because of the danger of the heresy.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or clarify any of this? Or am I thinking of something that never happened.
I want to learn more about the Anabaptist movement's origins. I am not religious, but I grew up in a high anabaptist population region and am curious.
I have read a bit about Zwingli, Hubmaier, Mann, etc. I want to learn about the broader social context, as I know there were uprisings, wars, etc.
Any books or historians you suggest?
Or, anyone care to do a breakdown of anything you know of this era of Swiss history?
Cheers
