’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with Magisterial Reformers shows that the Anabaptists developed an extensive history of baptism using church fathers. They attempted to show that...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
[2019]
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Perichoresis
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 93-110 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDG Free church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
Further subjects: | B
Anabaptists
B Menno Simons B Baptism B Balthasar Hubmaier B Tertullian |
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Summary: | Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with Magisterial Reformers shows that the Anabaptists developed an extensive history of baptism using church fathers. They attempted to show that adult baptism was the norm in the earliest centuries of the church and that infant baptism was the innovation away from the Bible. This debate was about who had inherited the biblical faith around baptism. |
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ISSN: | 2284-7308 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Perichoresis
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2019-0030 |