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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...

mark this occasion as the historical divide between himself and Zwingli. The events of the disputation were reviewed afresh with the publication of its minutes on, or about, December 8. New outbursts against the mass and images two days later emphasized popular discontent with the slowness of the Zwinglian reform. But the demonstrations were without their desired effect. By December 19, Zwingli had completely capitulated to the judgment and authority of the council, arriving at an impossible position
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