’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics

’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics

Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with Magisterial Reformers shows that the Anabaptists developed an extensive history of baptism using church fathers. They attempted to show that...

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Main Author: Alexis-Baker Andy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-12-01
Series:Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
Subjects:
anabaptists
baptism
tertullian
balthasar hubmaier
menno simons
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0030
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’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
anabaptists
baptism
tertullian
balthasar hubmaier
menno simons
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title ’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
title_short ’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
title_full ’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
title_fullStr ’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
title_full_unstemmed ’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
title_sort ’lest i make you a tertullian’: early anabaptist baptismal narratives and patristics
publisher Sciendo
series Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
issn 2284-7308
publishDate 2019-12-01
description Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with Magisterial Reformers shows that the Anabaptists developed an extensive history of baptism using church fathers. They attempted to show that adult baptism was the norm in the earliest centuries of the church and that infant baptism was the innovation away from the Bible. This debate was about who had inherited the biblical faith around baptism.
topic anabaptists
baptism
tertullian
balthasar hubmaier
menno simons
url https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0030
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