doubt because of what he believed to have been the excesses of the Anabaptists. In 1525 he published On Baptism: Anabaptism and Infant Baptism. This was essentially a denunciation of the Anabaptist views of men like Balthasar and Hubmair. The latter responded to Zwingli in a work entitled The Christian Baptism of Believers. Zwingli likewise responded with An Answer, where he sought to counter Anabaptist views. According to Bierma, “Zwingli defended the practice of paedobaptism on the grounds that there