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"The eight essays in this volume approach the study of the Radical Reformation from new perspectives and challenge some of the basic assumptions of the field. Some critique and problematize the typologies developed to distinguish Reformation radicals from each other and from the Magisterial Reformers. Others apply an equally iconoclastic approach to existing scholarship on the relationship between religious change and socio-political radicalism in early modern Europe. A final group concentrate specifically on revising the history of Anabaptism by tracing its long-term development across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and recovering the lives of normal Anabaptists to write a true social history of the movement that avoids relying on the biographies and prescriptive writings of its leadership"--
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When Martin Luther mounted his challenge to the Catholic Church, reform stimulated a range of responses, including radical solutions such as those proposed by theologians of the Anabaptist movement. But how did ordinary anabaptists, men and women, grapple with the theological and emotional challenges of the lutheran Reformation ? Anabaptism developed along unique lines in the lutheran heartlands in central Germany. Here, the movement was made up of scattered groups and did not centre on charismatic leaders as it did elsewhere; ideas were spread more often by word of mouth than by print; and many anabaptists had uneven attachment to the movement, recanting and then relapsing. Historiography has neglected anabaptism in this area, since it had no famous leaders and does not seem to have been numerically strong. Baptism, brotherhood, and belief challenges these assumptions, revealing how anabaptism’s development in central Germany was fundamentally influenced by its interaction with lutheran theology. By doing so, it sets a new agenda for understandings of anabaptism in central Germany, as ordinary individuals created new forms of piety which mingled with ideas about brotherhood, baptism, the Eucharist, and gender and sex. Anabaptism in this region was not an isolated sect but an important part of the confessional landscape of the Saxon lands, and continued to shape lutheran pastoral affairs long after scholarship assumed it had declined. The choices these anabaptist men and women made sat on a spectrum of solutions to religious concerns raised by the Reformation. Understanding their decisions, therefore, provides new insights into how religious identities were formed in the Reformation era.
Christian church history --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1500-1599 --- Anabaptistes --- Église luthérienne --- Reformation --- Anabaptists --- Lutheran Church --- 284.1 <43> "15" --- 286 <43> "15" --- Lutheranism --- Christian sects --- Catabaptists --- Habans --- Baptists --- Peasants' War, 1524-1525 --- History --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Duitsland --"15" --- Anabaptisten Duitsland. Zwickauer Propheten. Abecedarianen. Münster. Melchiorieten--?"15" --- 286 <43> "15" Anabaptisten Duitsland. Zwickauer Propheten. Abecedarianen. Münster. Melchiorieten--?"15"
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Christian church history --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599
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