Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Baptism and Rejection of Infant Baptism (July 18, 2019)

Karl Barth's rejection of infant baptism (paedobaptism) in his doctrine of baptism (CD IV/4) is infamous. Barth was a professor and pastor within the Swiss Reformed church, and the Reformed tradition has strongly affirmed the baptism of infants from its earliest days (c.f John Calvin's Institutes 4.16), and had persecuted […]

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Jürgen Moltmann said the Anabaptists were the only Reformation movement by faith alone (November 11, 2017)

Jürgen Moltmann said that the Anabaptists "were the only Reformation movement by faith alone" because "the Anabaptists rejected the foundations of the Christian state religion." Moltmann argues that Constantine had united the Church with the Holy Roman Empire, and salvation was mediated through it. The Anabaptists were the only ones […]

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John Calvin On Why He Wrote The Institutes (January 23, 2013)

 John Calvin's Commentary On The Psalms Volume 1, contains a brief autobiographical account of John Calvin's embracing of the Reformation, and discusses the persecutions that caused him to write the first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion 1535AD. According to the following Preface quotation, certain Anabaptists and participants […]

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