| Dutch Anabaptism: Origin, Spread, Life and Thought (1450-1600) 1968 Edition Contributor(s): Krahn, Cornelius (Author) |
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ISBN: 9401501319 ISBN-13: 9789401501316 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1968 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History - Religion | Christianity - Protestant |
| Dewey: 284.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 303 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book features Anabaptism of the Low Countries from its earliest traceable beginnings to the end of the sixteenth century. The major part of the book is devoted to the hundred years preceding the death of Menno Simons in 1561, after whom the Anabaptists received the name, Mennonites. A decade later the Netherlands gained independence and the Anabaptists were granted relative freedom. Prior to this Dutch Anabaptist refugee settlements and churches had been established along the North Sea and the Baltic Coast from Emden and Hamburg- Altona up to the mouth of the Vistula River. The roots of Dutch Anabaptism, similar to those of the Dutch Reformed Church, can be found in the native soil and were nourished and stimulated from near and far. The emerging hwnanistically- influenced Sacramentarian movement of the Low Countries modified and spiritualized the meaning of the remaining two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's supper. Dutch mysticism, the Brethren of Common Life, Erasmian hwnanism, the chambers of rhetoric, and the ties with Wittenberg (Luther, Karlstadt, Muntzer), Cologne (Westerburg), (B. Rothmann), Strassburg (Bucer, Capito), Zurich (Zwingli), Munster and Emden led to the introduction of Anabaptism in the Low Coun- tries by Melchior Hofmann, coming from Strassburg in 1530. |