Anabaptist Sixteenth-Century Baptism as Exponent of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Cultural, Social, and Political Breaches
The Reformation was the religious representative of an encompassing breach in European history. In this transition Anabaptism combats infant baptism as being a symbol of the social-religious unity of the corpus christianum that was passing by. Hence it introduces believer’s baptism as being a major...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Religion & theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 111-127 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDG Free church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments SA Church law; state-church law |
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Anabaptism
infant baptism
church-state relations
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| Summary: | The Reformation was the religious representative of an encompassing breach in European history. In this transition Anabaptism combats infant baptism as being a symbol of the social-religious unity of the corpus christianum that was passing by. Hence it introduces believer’s baptism as being a major symbol of a new epoch, of which persecution by church and state was the sad and existential consequence. Baptism of itself pertains to a sacrament of transition from old to new, achieved by the death and resurrection of Jesus. |
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| ISSN: | 1574-3012 |
| Contains: | In: Religion & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02301011 |