Anabaptists: Anabaptist Mennonite history excerpts and links.

THE AMISH: Beliefs, practices, & conflicts Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. History During the Reformation in 16th Century Europe, Luther and Calvin promoted the concepts of individual freedom and the priesthood of all believers. In what has been called the radical reformation , some religious reformers took these beliefs to a logical conclusion; they preached that the believer should separate ...

Anabaptists: The Schleitheim Confession, adopted by a Swiss Brethren conference in February 24, 1527.

Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) His Birth and Training Balthasar Hubmaier was born in Friedburg, Bavaria in 1481. A good student, he attended the University of Freiburg and earned a Masters degree in 1511. At that point he ignored his academic advisors, who regarded his prospects as excellent were he to be trained as a physician, and devoted himself to theological studies. In this he was so ...

Introduction John Smyth is one of the significant early Baptist leaders. This is his personal confession, never officially `published'. The original document is located in the Mennonite Archives, Amsterdam. Smyth's purpose in composing this confession seems to have been to stake out a distinct theological position in relation to both the main body of English separatists, and the continental ...