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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...

it should not surprise us that the emerging Swiss Reformer—like Luther in the midst of his lectures on Romans—acquired a copy of Erasmus’s 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament with the humanist’s preface—the Paraclesis, Latin translation, and explanatory notes [annotations]—immediately upon its appearance.4 Zwingli must surely have done the same with Erasmus’s 1519 edition, an edition Heinz Holeczeck has rightly termed “the most important and, in its impact, most influential of Erasmus’ editions.”5
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