His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.
2
This was a tract entitled 'On Anabaptism; to two pastors.'
3
For the measures taken to suppress the movement in the Netherlands see Richard Heath's Anabaptism.
4
The further characteristic marks which may be selected to differentiate Anabaptism from other movements of the period are:
5
One of the best historians of the Reformation, Walter Köhler, calls Erasmus one of the spiritual fathers of Anabaptism.
6
The Prince of Orange at this moment was strenuously opposed both to Calvinism and Anabaptism, but inclining to Lutheranism.
7
The grim rocks of Episcopalianism and Presbytery, of Independence and Anabaptism, of divine right and republicanism, stood opposed to one another.
8
For while Lutheranism stood essentially for passive obedience, and flourished nowhere save as a state church, Anabaptism was frankly revolutionary and often socialistic.