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This 3 page essay offers summation and commentary on chapter 6 of The Story of Christianity, Volume II: The Reformation to the Present Day by Justo Gonzalez. No additional sources are cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity, Vol.
II, Chapter 6 Research Compiled By - March, 2012 properly! Chapter 6:
The Anabaptist Movement The First Anabaptists In this chapter, Gonzalez addresses the criticisms that were leveled at both Zwingli and Luther, which pointed out that the sharp contrast that exists
between the practice of religion and the society in which religious practice occurs.1 While one is intrinsically a member of the society into which one is born, Christianity rests on
the need to make a personal decision to be a Christian based on ones faith in the gospel.2 This is why the issue of infant baptism was considered so crucial.
Many argued that simply because one was born into a Christian society and baptized as an infant did not constitute true biblical Christianity and they urged Zwingli to undertake
more radical reform. Consequently on January 21, 1525, George Blaurock, a former priest, was baptized publicly at the fountain in the Zurich square by one of his colleagues in the
"brethren," which is how this group referred to themselves.3 Soon, their enemies started calling them "anabaptists, which means rebaptizer," which is not accurate, as the Anabaptists held that infant baptism
was invalid.4 Gonzalez goes on to describe how they faced persecution, but the movement grew nonetheless. The Revolutionary Anabaptists Melchor Hoffman, who first embraced Lutheranism, then a Zwinglian before
becoming an Anabaptist, began preaching that "the Day of the Lord was near," and his message drew a following to Strasbourg to hear him.5 Gonzalez describes how this escalated into
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