[constitutiongirl]

BTW, I'll do a quick look-over of the books I have at home on anabaptists. I do know that Oxford, Cambridge and Websters all claim the they were a sect born out of the Reformation and not a hidden Alpine remnant, as some claim today. I've been functioning 20+ hours with little sleep so I'll look back into it when I'm rested.

[drstevej]

You might read William Estep, Jr. The Anabaptist Story (he was my dissertation external reader and a leading Anabaptist scholar in America). A more exhaustive treatment is George H. Williams, The Radical Reformation which dilineates the variety of radicals including anabaptists, spiritualists and anti-trinitarian radicals.

Modern Anabaptists usually look most favorably on the German Swiss Anabaptists (Grebel, Blaurock & Manz) who were initially disciples of Zwingli yet split over the issue of believer's baptism. This group was far more biblically oriented as opposed to the South Germans (Lutheran context) who were more "charismatic / experientialist."

Zwingli remained a pedobaptist serving as pastor in Zurich and was succeeded by Henrich Bullinger who held the same views. Zwingli and Calvin are patriarchs of the Reformed tradition. Both rejected the Anabaptist doctrine which said Christians could not be magistrates nor should they go to war. Zwingli was killed in battle, ironically.