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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...

its dogma and returning to first historical principles. That is, he sought to return to the “pure,” or primary sources of Christianity, and to interpret them with the help of their earliest interpreters, in effect to get beyond the interpretation of those teachers “approved by the Church.”31 In order to interpret Christ’s Great Commission as closely as possible to Christ’s intended meaning, Erasmus therefore asked himself three important questions: first, what had Christ intended to say with those
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