Meanings of anabaptism in English

His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.

This was a tract entitled 'On Anabaptism; to two pastors.'

For the measures taken to suppress the movement in the Netherlands see Richard Heath's Anabaptism.

The further characteristic marks which may be selected to differentiate Anabaptism from other movements of the period are:

One of the best historians of the Reformation, Walter Köhler, calls Erasmus one of the spiritual fathers of Anabaptism.

The Prince of Orange at this moment was strenuously opposed both to Calvinism and Anabaptism, but inclining to Lutheranism.

The grim rocks of Episcopalianism and Presbytery, of Independence and Anabaptism, of divine right and republicanism, stood opposed to one another.

For while Lutheranism stood essentially for passive obedience, and flourished nowhere save as a state church, Anabaptism was frankly revolutionary and often socialistic.