Jean Calvin contre les Anabaptistes

A Refutation of the Catabaptists’ False Doctrines in the Reformer’s Works from 1534 to 1536, with Special Emphasis on the Issues of Political Theology
Magyar Balázs Dávid

In the early period of the Reformation, this multifaceted radical movement divided the Protestantism into two theological camps. To magisterial reformers (Zwingly, Luther, Calvin), the task of the reformation was not only to remove impurities but to maintain continuity. Anabaptist reformers, on the other hand, saw the task of the reformation as a necessity for a new church modelled not on Catholicism before Boniface (as Luther considered) but on the church before Constantine, or even on the New Testament.

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Magyar Balázs Dávid: Jean Calvin contre les Anabaptistes. A Refutation of the Catabaptists’ False Doctrines in the Reformer’s Works from 1534 to 1536, with Special Emphasis on the Issues of Political Theology. In: Református Szemle 107.1 (2014), 49--78

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