Anabaptist Sixteenth-Century Baptism as Exponent of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Cultural, Social, and Political Breaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20487576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olof H de Vries (1 [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 111-127 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1023-0807 • E-ISSN: 1574-3012 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15743012-02301011 |
| OpenAlex | W2400352486 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The Reformation was the religious representative of an encompassing breach in European history. In this transition Anabaptism combats infant baptism as being a symbol of the social-religious unity of the corpus christianum that was passing by. Hence it introduces believer’s baptism as being a major symbol of a new epoch, of which persecution by church and state was the sad and existential consequence. Baptism of itself pertains to a sacrament of transition from old to new, achieved by the death and resurrection of Jesus
Anabaptists · Baptism · History of religions · Linguistics · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theology and Canon Law Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |