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Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many scholars have pointed to the influence of Erasmus on the early Swiss Anabaptists and on Menno Simons, an Anabaptist leader from Friesland who founded the Mennonites. Yet the extent of this influence has never been firmly established. Friesen uses new research to build a more convincing case for the early Anabaptist movement’s dependence on Erasmus’s thought by tracing the intellectual...

change it because this is what Paul did [Acts 19], even though he was only one member of the church.”23 Such an assertion by sixteenth-century Catholic apologists would appear to contain the most extreme form of that argument for the superiority of the Catholic Church over the Bible that Priarias enunciated in his response to Luther’s 95 Theses.24 Not only did these apologists argue that the church was above Scripture, they argued that the church could even change the teachings of Christ.25 To Luther
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