If they refused to renounce their belief in adult baptism and most did the church drowned or beheaded the martyrs. It boiled them in oil. It burned them alive. Thousands of beleaguered Anabaptists ...

(UNDATED) In the early 16th century, groups of European Christians started splitting from the Roman Catholic Church in what is now known as the Protestant Reformation. But while Protestants and ...

This clause emphasizes a teaching of the ancient Church that would later be denied by the rise of anabaptism. Anabaptism taught that infant baptism was a waste of time and said that you must be ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of "The Purpose Driven Life," says that the 16th-century Anabaptists shaped his Purpose Driven ...

Church leaders, members of the Mennonite community and scholars from as far as Indonesia and Ethiopia will gather next week at Elizabethtown College for a conference exploring the history and global ...

I serve one afternoon a week as a tour guide at MennoHof, the Amish and Mennonite information center in Shipshewana. The third audiovisual there presents a re-enactment of an adult believer’s baptism ...

HUTTERITES, or Anabaptists, originated in Germany in the 1500s during the reformation started by Martin Luther. Led by Jacob Hutter, hence the name Hutterites, and influenced by the lectures of Swiss ...