Hi all...
I don't really claim any denomination right now. I'm fresh out of catholism (grew up that way and only have been to a Catholic church for holidays in the last 2 years, but just in the last several months have I realised I'm not Catholic, and am researching (at super speed) different denominations. I have been attending a "bible church" that follows mainly a Baptist doctrine. So my beliefs (as far as I know so far) are closer to Baptist than any other doctrine.
Now to get back on thread! hehe
Most recently I have been on a self-guided study tour of the reformation. Starting w/ Wycliffe, Hus, Luther and then leading to The Swiss Reformation w/ Zwingli and Calvin.
Next in my study is The Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists! Yeah!
Back "in the day" Anabaptists were horrible, bad people who "Re-baptised" (which is what Anabaptist means) others. Some were killed by being tied up and thrown into the lake.. for they "had sinned by water, so they should die by water".
The Anabaptists took comfort in the passage Matt 5:10-12 "Blessed are you when men cast insults against you, and persecute you , and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on accounto fMe. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
I pulled out my study guide and found this short Anabaptists Chronology:
1523 - Second Zurich Disputation Radical followers break with Zqingli
1525 - First believer's baptism in Zurich
First Anapaptist congregation of 35 converts established in Zollikon
Arrest and first imprisionment of Anabaptists in Zurich
Bolt Eberle executed - 1st Protestant and Anabaptist martyr
1527 - Schleitheim Brotherly UNion
Felix Manz drowned in Xurich
Sattler burned in Rottenburg
Hans Hut dies in Augsburg prison
1528 - Hubmaier burned in Vienna
1529 - Tyrolean Anabaptists flee to Moravia
1533 - Hutter joins Moravians, beginning the Huttierites
1534-1535 - Munster Rebellion - attempt to set up Kingdom of God
1536 - John Leyden, "King" at Munster executed
1536 - Menno Simons becomes Anabaptist leader in Netherlands
The above time line is from material copywrited from the Christian History Institute in "Leader's Guide: Reformation Overview".
Once I actually have studied this stuff (will be a couple weeks before I have finnished) I'll come back and post whatever info I find. (within reason, considering the depth that I'll be researching
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