Anabaptism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-20

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00:04:12 1 Origins
00:04:21 1.1 Medieval forerunners
00:06:23 1.2 Zwickau prophets and the German Peasants' War
00:07:52 1.3 Views on origins
00:09:33 1.3.1 Monogenesis
00:10:44 1.3.2 Polygenesis
00:13:31 1.3.3 Apostolic succession
00:14:48 2 History
00:14:57 2.1 Switzerland
00:19:00 2.2 Tyrol
00:21:39 2.3 The Low Countries and northern Germany
00:24:37 2.4 Moravia, Bohemia and Silesia
00:26:44 2.5 South and central Germany, Austria and Alsace
00:28:39 3 Persecutions and migrations
00:30:23 4 Types
00:33:04 5 Spirituality
00:33:13 5.1 Charismatic manifestations
00:35:46 5.2 Holy Spirit leadership
00:37:09 6 Today
00:37:18 6.1 Anabaptists
00:39:14 6.2 Similar groups
00:41:40 6.3 Neo-Anabaptists
00:42:40 7 Legacy
00:44:19 8 See also



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Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin anabaptista, from the Greek ἀναβαπτισμός: ἀνά- "re-" and βαπτισμός "baptism", German: Täufer, earlier also Wiedertäufer) is a Christian movement which traces its origins to the Radical Reformation. The movement is generally seen as an offshoot of Protestantism, although this view has been challenged by some Anabaptists.Approximately 4 million Anabaptists live in the world today with adherents scattered across all inhabited continents. In addition to a number of minor Anabaptist groups, the most numerous include the Mennonites at 2.1 million, the German Baptists at 1.5 million, the Amish at 300,000 and the Hutterites at 50,000.
In the 21st century there are large cultural differences between assimilated Anabaptists, who do not differ much from evangelicals or mainline Protestants, and traditional groups like the Amish, the Old Colony Mennonites, the Old Order Mennonites, the Hutterites and the Old German Baptist Brethren.
The early Anabaptists formulated their beliefs in the Schleitheim Confession, in 1527. Anabaptists believe that baptism is valid only when the candidate confesses his or her faith in Christ and wants to be baptized. This believer's baptism is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized. Anabaptists are those who are in a traditional line with the early Anabaptists of the 16th century. Other Christian groups with different roots also practice believer's baptism, such as Baptists, but these groups are not seen as Anabaptist. The Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites are direct descendants of the early Anabaptist movement. Schwarzenau Brethren, Bruderhof, and the Apostolic Christian Church are considered later developments among the Anabaptists.
The name Anabaptist means "one who baptizes again". Their persecutors named them this, referring to the practice of baptizing persons when they converted or declared their faith in Christ, even if they had been baptized as infants. Anabaptists required that baptismal candidates be able to make a confession of faith that is freely chosen and so rejected baptism of infants. The early members of this movement did not accept the name Anabaptist, claiming that infant baptism was not part of scripture and was therefore null and void. They said that baptizing self-confessed believers was their first true baptism:

I have never taught Anabaptism.... But the right baptism of Christ, which is preceded by teaching and oral confession of faith, I teach, and say that infant baptism is a robbery of the right baptism of Christ.

Anabaptists were heavily and long persecuted starting in the 16th century by both Magisterial Protestants and Roman Catholics, largely because of their interpretation of scripture which put them at odds with official state church interpretations and with government. Anabaptism was never established by any state and therefore never enjoyed any of the privileges that come with it. Most Anab ...