Michael sattler reformation lutheran

On a cold winters morning, 21 January , in the Swiss city of Zurich, Conrad Grebel baptised George Blaurock, who in turn baptised the others present. So was formed the first distinct reformed Protestant congregation of the Reformation era, and the first church of baptised believers in over years. Within 10 years almost all involved would have been martyred yet the movement they began would prosper.

The term "Anabaptism" literally: rebaptism was a nickname used by the opponents of the Radical Reformation in order to identify it. Anyone who claimed to be a Christian but wasn't Lutheran, Protestant or Catholic tended to be labeled Anabaptist. As a result the term became associated with extreme groups, rather than the great majority of moderate, scripturally committed and pacifistic Anabaptists.

True Anabaptists refuted the term they did not RE-baptise because they viewed infant baptism as invalid. They saw believer baptism as the only valid scriptural baptism. For the purposes of this study, the following definitions will be used:.

Michael Sattler, an outstanding Anabaptist leader and martyr of South Germany, was born at Staufen in the Breisgau near Freiburg, Germany, about

Prior to , there was no distinction between those later be known as "Radicals" and the more conservative Zwinglian Reformers in Zurich. All were known simply as the "Brethren" a title which the radicals were to continue to hold. Indeed, as early as most of the radicals were studying under Zwingli who owned them as friends.

During the Second Disputation concerning the Reformation of the church in Zurich, Zwingli backed away from his earlier call that the council act immediately to abolish Mass, or else he would act on his own, to the more conservative position of not acting without council authorisation. This was in a response to the Council's willingness to embrace Reform, but at a pace at which the whole Canton of Zurich could move.

To Grebel, Manz and the other Radicals, such a concession was an undermining of Zwingli's own principle of Sola Scriptura Scripture Alone as the sole authority in matters of Faith. Grebel and the others saw that in arguing that the magistrates were to determine what reform was to occur, Zwingli was undermining the authority of Scripture as it is God as He reveals in His Word who determines how we are to worship, not the State.