Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Baptism is given on confession of faith, and the Schleitheim articles put it first among the seven.
Source The Schleitheim ConfessionMichael Sattler (attributed)
Baptism upon a believer's own confession of faith, never in infancy, is this tradition's namesake and founding doctrine, set out in Article I of the Schleitheim Confession, 1527.
Source The Schleitheim ConfessionMichael Sattler (attributed)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Fasting is appointed by a congregation as occasion requires rather than by a calendar.
Foot washing is kept as an ordinance alongside baptism and the Supper in the Anabaptist bodies that descend from Dordrecht.
Source The Dordrecht Confession of FaithDutch Mennonite ministers assembled at Dordrecht
The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source Martyrs Mirror and Jan Luyken (GAMEO and Anabaptist Historians)Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) contributors; Anabaptist Historians contributors
Source The Schleitheim ConfessionMichael Sattler (attributed)
The Conference gathers the Anabaptist family of churches.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source In the Shadow of "Savage Wolves": Anabaptist Munster and the German Reformation during the 1530sSigrun Haude
Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions alike, including this tradition.
Source The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and AuthorityLee Martin McDonald
The Schleitheim Confession of 1527 fixed nonresistance and separation from the world as binding marks of the Anabaptist church, shared by every descendant body of the movement.
Source The Schleitheim ConfessionMichael Sattler (attributed)
God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)
Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Swiss Brethren argued from scripture alone against Rome and against the magisterial reformers alike, and it is the ground on which the Schleitheim articles refuse infant baptism, the oath and the sword.
Christ as the Son of God is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
A final judgment is held, and the separation of the church from the world in this life is read as anticipating it.
The gathered congregation calls and appoints its own servants, and the Schleitheim articles describe the shepherd as chosen by the congregation rather than sent to it.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The New Testament, Gospel of MatthewAnonymous
The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)