The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 332 pages
• Published by: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; 3 Rev Sub edition January 1996
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0802808867
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0802808868
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
The third edition of this standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism has been substantially revised and enlarged to take into account the numerous Anabaptist sources that have come to light in the last half-century as well as the monographs and other scholarly works on Anabaptist themes that have recently appeared.

Reader Reviews
Gives the historical background, foundation, and progress of the "re-baptizers" as their critics called them. The ministries of the early Anabaptist leaders are followed in detail in both Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. After a historical review of each leader's influence on the movement, the latter half of the book provides a detailed examination of these leaders' positions on matters of doctrine such as infant baptism, the trinity, pacifism, the swearing of oaths, the ban, and civil authority. Perhaps the most interesting sections of this book relates to the ongoing and violent persecutions which befell the early Anabaptists. Not only the dominant Catholic hierarch but their fellow Reformers made martyrs out of the early Anabaptists. The arguments and misrepresentations made against the Anabaptists by their Catholic and Protestant tormentors helps to define what these people did, in fact, believe in. A great book for understanding where the Mennonites, Hutterites, and other Anabaptists came from.