facile identification. That which makes the concept of a Radical Reformation useful, however, is the recognition it gives to free church origins as distinguished from state-church Protestantism, for all groups within the Radical Reformation denied the state’s authority in matters of faith and order. Almost all also rejected infant baptism without necessarily adopting believers’ baptism. All three of the groups composed elements in what has been termed the “Radical Reformation.” They were all antipedobaptists,