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The Anabaptist movement started with Conrad Grebel in Switzerland and spread over many countries and ran as a side current to the main stream of the Reformation. This movement was in part a reaction against the close ties of Church and State. Also, although the Anabaptists were quite in accord with the theology of the Reformation as expressed by Luther and Zwingli, they believed the Reformation had not gone far enough in its return to the early church teachings of the Apostles. As a result of their teachings, they were persecuted by Zwinglians, Lutherans, Calvinists and Catholics, especially at the massacre in Munster in 1535. The Dutch reformer, Menno Simons, joined the Anabaptists in 1536 and because of his teachings the Anabaptists became known as Mennonites.

Resources in This Category

• Anabaptist-Mennonite History

  http://www.anabaptists.org/history/
  Anabaptists: Anabaptist-Mennonite history excerpts and links.

• Biography: Balthasar Hübmaier 1480-1528)

  http://www.hccentral.com/gkeys/hbmier.html
  A short biography of the Anabaptist leader

• COB-Net Historical Notes: Menno Simons

  http://www.cob-net.org/text/history_menno.htm
  Biographical article.

• Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

  http://gameo.org/
  Provides over 2500 articles on Mennonite subjects.

• History of the Moravian Church by J. E. Hutton

  http://www.ccel.org/h/hutton/moravian/
  Etext at CCEL.

• Menno Simons. Life, writings, images and links

  http://www.mennosimons.net/
  Independent information about the Dutch Church reformer Menno Simons (c. 1496-1561).

• Radical Reformation

  http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/radrefor.htm
  The Anabaptists in Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries.

• The Amish

  http://www.religioustolerance.org/amish.htm
  A quick look at their history and beliefs

• The Radical Reformation:

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/anabrsc.htm
  Links to a number of online resources for this movement.

• The Radicals of the Reformation

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/15.html
  Article on the Anabaptists, the Spiritualists and the Evangelical Rationalists.

• The Schleitheim Confession

  http://www.anabaptists.org/history/the-schleitheim-confession.html
  The historic Anabaptist creed

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