Test Two Flashcards
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Felix Manz
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1st Anabaptist martyr; drowned
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Dirk Willems
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- -imprisoned but escaped
- -Saved guard who fell through the ice while chasing him; guard then captured him
- -Burned at the stake
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Michael Sattler
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- -Former prior of Benedictine monastery
- -Baptized in 1526, became an Anabaptist leader
- -Schleitheim Confession
- -Martyred May 20th, 1527
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Balthasar Hubmaier
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- -Baptized day before Easter, next day baptized 300
- -Martyred March 10, 1528
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Melchior Hoffman
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- -Taught heavenly or celestial flesh of Christ
- -Preached that Strasbourg would be site of Jesus’ return and start of millennial kingdom would happen after Hoffman was imprisoned for 6 months…he ended up being imprisoned beyond predicated second coming
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Menno Simons
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- -Theology: discipline through church ban, pacifism, “celestial flesh”
- -Followers settled in America: Mennonites
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7 Doctrines of Schleitheim Confession
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- -Baptism: Voluntary; for adult believers
- -Ban: Church Discipline
- -Lord’s Supper: memorial, only for the baptized
- -Separation of church and state
- -Local church calls, supports, and disciplines pastors
- -Christians should not be magistrates
- -Christians should not swear an oath
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Balthasar Hubmaier’s 18 Articles
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- -First reform writing
- -Faith, not merely assent
- -Hints at believers baptism
- -Local church should choose and support its own pastor
- -Denounced scholasticism
- -Priests should be allowed to marry
- -Lord’s Supper as memorial
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Balthasar Hubmaier’s Concerning Heretics and Those Who Burn Them
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- -Advocated for universal religious freedom
- -Advocated separation of church and state
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Balthasar Hubmaier’s On Christian Baptism of Believers
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–Defended believer’s baptism and refuted Zwingli
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John Calvin: Humanist to Reformer
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- -Exiled 1533
- –Nicholas Cop, Calvin’s friend, elected rector of University of Paris; inaugural address included evangelical undertones with quotes from Luther and Erasmus & was forced to flee
- –Because of his friendship with Cop and suspicions that he had co-authored address, Calvin fled Paris
- -Probably in 1533, in Paris or in exile, Calvin became a Protestant
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Calvin in Geneva (1536-1538)
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- -Calvin set out for Strasbourg to pursue academic life but detoured, intended to visit Geneva for one night, but Guillaume Farel urged him to stay
- -Organized church in Geneva with emphasis on church discipline
- –Reaction: election of four councilmen who opposed Reform
- -1538, Calin and Farel were banished
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Calvin in Strasbourg (1538-1541)
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- -Invited by Martin Burcer
- -Ministered to congregation of 500 French refugees
- -1540, married Idelette de Bure
- -Wrote: Institutes of Christian Religion, Commentary on Romans, Reply to Sadoleto,
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Calvin in Geneva (1541-1564)
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- -1541, Eccleisiatical Ordinances
- –Fourfold ministry: pastors, doctors (teachers), elders, and deacons
- -Church-state used to stifle opposition and heresy
- -Libertine party opposed puritanistic reforms
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Calvin in Control (1555-1564)
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- -Establish model covenant community in Geneva
- -1559, founded Geneva Academy
- -Influenced Reformation throughout Europe
- –Calvinism became widespread form of Reformation