Post by pitbull on Aug 23, 2007 20:19:22 GMT -5
ANABAPTISTS
Origins
There is no single point of origin for the Anabaptists. They are instead several separated groups and congregations that arose at different times and in different locations, many times never having contact with each other.
Name
The name was originally given by the Roman Catholic Church in the 4th century to those who baptized believers by immersion even if the person had been baptized as an infant into the state church. Protestants and Reformers later applied this name also for those who would baptize believers even if affusion or sprinkling had been previously used. Those in the 16th Century are sometimes called “Radical Reformer” or “Stepchildren of the Reformation”.
Doctrines/Beliefs
Due to their doctrinal distinctions, the Anabaptists have been persecuted over the centuries by both the Roman Catholic Church and denominations from the Protestants and Reformers. Here are a few of those:
• Founded churches and congregations off the New Testament pattern
• Congregation should be made up of only regenerated
• Rejected state-church union
• Believer’s baptism by immersion
• Opposed infant baptism
• Christians should follow a high standard of morality and holiness
• Freedom of religion
• The priesthood of all believers
• Soul winning and evangelism
• Equal rights for all persons, despite gender or race
• The autonomy of the local congregation
• The Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice
• practiced nonviolent resistance with a few groups that were actually pacifists
Subdivisions/Splinter Groups
Since there is no particular “denomination”, every congregation within the Anabaptist Movement can technically be considered a splinter group. Here are some of the groupings of similar congregations.
Mennonites
o Mennonite Brethren
o Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia
o Mennonite Church USA
o Brethren in Christ
o Communauté Mennonite au Congo
o Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania
o Deutsche Mennonitengemeinden
o Mennonite Church Canada
o Church of God in Christ, Mennonite
o Conservative Mennonite Conference
o Beachy Amish Mennonite
Amish
o Old Order Amish
o New Order Amish
Quakers
Baptists [especially independent and fundamentalists]
Hutterites
Bruderhof Communities
Church of the Brethren
Brethren in Christ
Origins
There is no single point of origin for the Anabaptists. They are instead several separated groups and congregations that arose at different times and in different locations, many times never having contact with each other.
Name
The name was originally given by the Roman Catholic Church in the 4th century to those who baptized believers by immersion even if the person had been baptized as an infant into the state church. Protestants and Reformers later applied this name also for those who would baptize believers even if affusion or sprinkling had been previously used. Those in the 16th Century are sometimes called “Radical Reformer” or “Stepchildren of the Reformation”.
Doctrines/Beliefs
Due to their doctrinal distinctions, the Anabaptists have been persecuted over the centuries by both the Roman Catholic Church and denominations from the Protestants and Reformers. Here are a few of those:
• Founded churches and congregations off the New Testament pattern
• Congregation should be made up of only regenerated
• Rejected state-church union
• Believer’s baptism by immersion
• Opposed infant baptism
• Christians should follow a high standard of morality and holiness
• Freedom of religion
• The priesthood of all believers
• Soul winning and evangelism
• Equal rights for all persons, despite gender or race
• The autonomy of the local congregation
• The Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice
• practiced nonviolent resistance with a few groups that were actually pacifists
Subdivisions/Splinter Groups
Since there is no particular “denomination”, every congregation within the Anabaptist Movement can technically be considered a splinter group. Here are some of the groupings of similar congregations.
Mennonites
o Mennonite Brethren
o Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia
o Mennonite Church USA
o Brethren in Christ
o Communauté Mennonite au Congo
o Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania
o Deutsche Mennonitengemeinden
o Mennonite Church Canada
o Church of God in Christ, Mennonite
o Conservative Mennonite Conference
o Beachy Amish Mennonite
Amish
o Old Order Amish
o New Order Amish
Quakers
Baptists [especially independent and fundamentalists]
Hutterites
Bruderhof Communities
Church of the Brethren
Brethren in Christ