Anabaptists believe that baptism is valid only when candidates freely confess their faith in Christ and request to be baptized. Commonly referred to as believer's baptism, it is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized.

2025年1月11日 · Anabaptist, (from Greek ana, “again”) member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers. The movement’s most distinctive tenet was adult baptism.

2019年7月23日 · Anabaptism was a movement within the Protestant Reformation. The movement’s most notable position was adult baptism. In its first generation, followers participated in a second baptism, which was a violation condemned by death following the law of that era.

2025年1月21日 · However, Anabaptism, along with other strands of the Radical Reformation, came to the conclusion that the Bible taught beyond what the magisterial Reformers upheld. Anabaptists, for example, emphasised the importance of personal conversion and the "new birth", often using the biblical figure of the encounter of Jesus with Nicodemus and the ...

Anabaptist, Member of a movement of the Protestant Reformation characterized by adult baptism. Anabaptists held that infants were not punishable for sin because they had no awareness of good and evil and thus could not yet exercise free will, repent, and accept baptism.

2024年12月27日 · Anabaptism was declared a heresy, punishable by death. In fact, it was their persecutors that gave them their name: Anabaptist means “rebaptizer.” The early Anabaptists rejected the name, for they never considered the ceremonial sprinkling they received as infants to be a valid baptism.

2019年6月25日 · Anabaptists are Christians who believe in adult baptism, as opposed to the baptizing of infants. Originally a derogatory term, Anabaptist (from the Greek term anabaptizein —which means to baptize again) meant "re-baptizer," because some of these believers who had been baptized as infants were baptized again.

2018年3月19日 · Who were the Anabaptists? The Anabaptists ( or "re-baptizers") were one of several smaller groups in church history that endured unspeakable suffering to establish and maintain their witness. They began in the midst of the reform at …

2017年9月1日 · Despite the immense differences between our Mennonite and John of Leiden, historically they have been grouped together under the common sixteenth-century label of “Anabaptism” (historians today usually use the label “Radical Reformation”).

Developed during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, Anabaptism contended that other Protestant movements (such as Lutheranism or Calvinism) were right in demanding reform of the Roman Catholic Church.