Karlstadt as the Father of the Baptist Movements : The Emergence of Lay Protestantism / Calvin Augustine Pater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pater, Calvin Augustine, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von, 1480-1541.

Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von.

Hoffoman, Melchior, -1543 or 1544.

Hoffoman, Melchior.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Professor Pater presents a revolutionary appraisal of the origins of law Protestantism in the Radical Reformation. Karlstady's creative contributions to the Reformation in Wittenberg are analysed, and the traditional picture of Karlstadt as an epigone of Luther, challenging his mentor purely out of spite, is discarded. Pater shows how Karlstadt clearly influenced Ulrich Zwingli's attitudes towards celibacy and radical liturgical reform, and uncovers historical links between Karlstadt and the Swiss Baptists, including the law theologians Felix Manz and Konrad Grebel. The author goes on to trade the influence of Karlstadt on Melchior Hoffman, who spread Baptist ideas in northern Europe. Finally Pater notes that it was via Menno Simons that Karlstadt and Hoffman had their greatest influence, for John Smyth, the founder of the Baptist movement in England, went to the Netherlands with his followers, where they applied for membership in a prominent Mennonite congregation, the Waterlander Baptist congregation in Amsterdam. Thus the impact of the Dutch Baptists [Mennonites] on the English Baptists is here established.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Karlstadt's Theology

Part Two. The Zurich Reformation

Part Three. Karlstadt and Hoffman

Appendix I. Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer

Appendix II. The Imprisonment of Johannes Bebel and Thomas Wolf

Appendix III. The Woodcut 'Triumphus Veritatis'

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Index of Scriptural References

Notes:

"Reprinted in 2018"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7984-5

OCLC:

1129152390