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The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of this vigorous Christian group. Estep provides a historical review of each Anabaptist leader’s influence and discusses their positions on such doctrines as infant baptism, the Trinity, pacifism, the swearing of oaths and civil authority. The author, wanting to impart more than just...

than Zwingli’s in the October disputation. According to the record, however, Zwingli had agreed with the younger men that the Word of God and not the Zürich council should determine the disposition of the mass and the use of images.13 Yet following the disputation, Zwingli seemed to submit to the decision of the council. He was unwilling to alter observance of the Lord’s Supper to conform to the Scriptures and his earlier promises. This became the point of contention between him and Grebel. On the
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