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“Anabaptism is a Christian tradition that emerged in the 16th century during the Protestant Reformation. While Anabaptism has its roots in historical Christianity, it has some distinct beliefs and practices that sets it apart from other Christian traditions. … Anabaptists believed that the...

If “Anabaptist” had been a registration option here, that is how I would have registered. Since it isn’t, and since I’m neither Catholic nor Protestant, I requested a change in my registration from “Christian” to “Other Faith”. Administration graciously approved my request.

“But the magisterial reformers, who merged church and state, had one strong argument on their side: tradition. History recorded that the last one thousand years was filled with this marriage between two strange bedfellows. Now the Anabaptists wanted a divorce between the couple which had seen...

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that my faith is located in certain groups in the Anabaptist movement. The following information will help interested readers better understand my position, whether they agree with it or not. ”These men and women were not political revolutionaries engaging in anarchy...

A “new model;” a convenient redefinition of the term “martyrdom”. ”Extract The First Crusade was an important episode in the history of martyrdom. While some of the crusaders were martyrs in the old style, giving up their lives rather than renounce Christ, the expedition established in the...

Continuing with the teaching presented by Pastor Robinson (whom I’d never heard of and knew nothing at all about until this afternoon) begun in post #2018 - “Put simply, when the officials came to arrest Jesus in Gethsemane, they happened upon an armed band of men hanging out in a grove of...

This is long. I’ll break it into two parts. ”The concept of preserving one’s own life, and especially the lives of our families, by preemptively killing a violent oppressor is commonly held today. In fact, any other reaction aside from preemptive killing one’s mortal enemies is considered...

From some online reading I’ve done today - “Writing in his great defense of Christianity, Against Celsus (c. 248 AD), Origen declared that Christians ‘no longer take up the sword against nation, nor do we learn war anymore’ - a deliberate echo of Isaiah 2:4 - because they had become ‘sons of...

Two were enough for the entire group of disciples. Remember? The purpose for them being armed was fully accomplished that evening. Right? And then Jesus gave them further instruction about the sword. The early church understood this.

No retraction. No apology. No (hoped for) surprise. Although I don’t agree with everything Spurgeon said, he nevertheless played a substantial role in the formation of my Christian identity - an identity which I voluntarily laid aside (temporarily, and only on this platform) as a gesture of...

Another recommendation for my readers: Philip Schaff's, History of the Christian Church. I haven’t read all eight volumes - my interest and attention being primarily occupied with and focused on the first four centuries - but I have read much of this work. It occupies a place of prominence in...

At a minimum, read these … … and we’ll be “armed, ready to discuss” very early Christian history.

* This one caused me to think about you @Riven. *