<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

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Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with...

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

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 93 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0030

Keywords
Anabaptists, baptism, Tertullian, Balthasar Hubmaier, Menno Simons

© 2019 Andy Alexis-Baker, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 93 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0030

KeywordsAnabaptists, baptism, Tertullian, Balthasar Hubmaier, Menno Simons

© 2019 Andy Alexis-Baker, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Anabaptists, baptism, Tertullian, Balthasar Hubmaier, Menno Simons