Anabaptism

Thomas Muntzer's radical, spiritualist theology anticipated currents that fed into the later Anabaptist movement.

This source names Anabaptism directly: "checked against an academic history of Anabaptism alongside this denominational encyclopedia."

A Protestant family, of the Radical Reformation.

An Anabaptist body, separated from the Swiss Brethren under Jakob Ammann.

The largest Anabaptist family.

There is no confirmation, since baptism is already the act of an adult will.

Baptism is given to those who have been taught, who have learned repentance and who ask for it of their own will. Infant baptism is named in the Schleitheim articles as the highest and chief abomination of the pope.

Anabaptists reject papal primacy along with all state-church establishment, insisting on a gathered church separate from civil authority.

Anabaptist theology historically holds the Lord's Supper as a memorial and communal act rather than affirming transubstantiation or a sacramental Real Presence.

The Anabaptist principle of a church of the freely baptised is incompatible with a parish or diocese that includes everyone born inside its boundary.

The memorial view, taken from Zwingli and held across the believers' church tradition.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 1 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 2 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 3 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 4 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Daniel, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Esther, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Baruch, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Judith, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Tobit, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Books of the Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Letter of Jeremiah, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Prayer of Manasseh, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Psalm 151, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Sirach, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Solomon, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

The book was the common hymnal of the sixteenth century Anabaptist movement before it became identified with one part of it.

Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Baptism is given on confession of faith, and the Schleitheim articles put it first among the seven.

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.

Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.

The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.

The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The Conference gathers the Anabaptist family of churches.

Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions alike, including this tradition.

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.

God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.

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.

The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.

God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Atonement for sin through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Christus Victor, and with it a reading of the atonement that carries directly into the community's refusal of violence.

The Arminian position, held across most Anabaptist churches.

Anabaptist communities were persecuted by Catholic and magisterial Protestant authorities alike.