"Capricious, Seductive, and Insurrectionary": Anabaptism, the Circumcellions, and the Rhetoric of Sedition

In the polemically-charged world of the sixteenth century, Anabaptist sects were often portrayed by the early magisterial Reformers as merely the latest iteration of another purist, rebaptizing brand of heretic: the Donatist church of North Africa. By mapping Anabaptism onto this paradigm, its oppon...

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Main Author: Hoover, Jesse A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2016
In: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-98
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KCD Hagiography; saints
KDD Protestant Church
KDG Free church
KDH Christian sects
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Anabaptism
B Donatism
B polemical literature
B Circumcellions
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