… Zwingli’s ‘widertouf’ is ambiguous. Historically speaking, Catabaptist was used before Anabaptist but the latter term has prevailed. 1
First encounters with the Catabaptists
Bullinger quickly entered into dialogue with the Catabaptists in his late teens when they first appeared on the Swiss scene. On January 16, 1525, he took part in the first major disputation between the Reformed churches and the Catabaptists at Zürich, including Manz, Grebel and Röubli. …
… as signs of essential Reformation
David Gay’s title ought to be ‘Battle for the Anabaptist Church’ rather than ‘Battle for the Church’. The Anabaptists, he tells us came nearest to the New Testament church and not the traditionally accepted Reformers. However, Gay does not seem to have the foggiest idea who the Anabaptists were. Indeed, the only British Reformer that he would accept as such is Hooper, whom, because of his views against vestments, he finds comes closest …
Aug 18
… the would-be ‘Puritans’. That Puritan of the Puritans George Abbot looked with horror at the Anabaptist (not Baptist) Anglicans who rejected doctrinal succession for church succession, looking apon a certain organisational set up as being essential to salvation. Alexander Henderson and Samuel Rutherford are allowed to represent Scotland. True, Englishman William Ames (1576-1633) is portrayed, but he is introduced as Puritan in the Netherlands in the Continental section. Now, another bias …
