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The Anabaptists (the Radical Reformation)
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Beginnings in Zwingli’s Zurich – Conrad Grebel
& Felix Manz
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Distinctives: peace, simplicity, religious
liberty, congregational polity, and believer’s baptism
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The Hutterites & the Bruderhof in Germany
and eastern Europe
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Michael Sattler & the Schleitheim Confession
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The Munster Rebellion
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Menno Simons
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John Calvin & the Reformed Churches
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Conversion to Protestantism & flight to
Basel
- Writes Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Doctrinal focus on the sovereignty of God
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William Farel invites Calvin to Geneva
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Strasbourg sojourn & return to Geneva
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Heinrich Bullinger & the Helvetic
Confessions
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Reformed churches in France and the Netherlands
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John Knox in Scotland