If they refused to renounce their belief in adult baptism and most did the church drowned or beheaded the martyrs. It boiled them in oil. It burned them alive. Thousands of beleaguered Anabaptists ...

Anabaptists — those who observe adult rather than infant baptism — define Lancaster County in many ways and yet remain a mystery in many ways. Why do the Amish live apart? Why do some Mennonite women ...

(UNDATED) In the early 16th century, groups of European Christians started splitting from the Roman Catholic Church in what is now known as the Protestant Reformation. But while Protestants and ...

This clause emphasizes a teaching of the ancient Church that would later be denied by the rise of anabaptism. Anabaptism taught that infant baptism was a waste of time and said that you must be ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has formally apologized for Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists in 16th-century Europe. A statement approved by the ELCA Church Council, the denomination’s ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of "The Purpose Driven Life," says that the 16th-century Anabaptists shaped his Purpose Driven ...

Paige Patterson, former SBC president and current president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and Tom Nettles, professor of historical theology at Southern Baptist ...

During the third century, in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, men and women fled the cities into the desert, following the example of St. Anthony. They wore simple clothes, ate simple food. They ...