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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...

to say: it is not forbidden to baptize in the name of St. Peter. Thus, had they baptized in the name of St. Peter it would [also] be right. Oh, what sharp logic! On the other hand, he says that St. Paul did not forbid to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the way that the pope-ass has forbidden to dispense communion in both kinds; therefore he did not have power to change things. But this cannot follow, for according to Luther one is not to change the Word of God.27 According
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