Research topic: Anabaptists

Anabaptists [Gr.,=rebaptizers], name applied, originally in scorn, to certain Protestant sects holding that infant baptism is not authorized in Scripture and that baptism should be administered to believers only. A convert if baptized in infancy must be baptized again as an adult (Anabaptists did not consider adult baptism to be a repetition, as their critics charged, since infant baptisms were annulled). Anabaptists were prominent in Europe during the 16th cent., forming part of the "radical" wing of the Reformation ; they were harshly condemned and persecuted under Protestants an... Read more