The Thread of Kingdom Christianity - The Early Church and the Anabaptist Movement

The Anabaptists did not emerge out of a vacuum. To learn more, visit https://thehistoricfaith.com/ and take the rest of the course entitled "Anabaptist History." (https://thehistoricfaith.com/courses/anabaptist-history/) Though the immediate cause of their formation could be framed as dissatisfaction with the compromises of the sixteenth-century Reformers, their thinking was in some ways a return to church tradition rather than a departure from it. In particular, they shared attitudes common to the early church, such as a radical Christocentrism. Outward expressions of this include commitment to nonviolence, modesty in dress, and separation from worldly spheres of influence. Under further examination, all “kingdom” movements seem to share these and other similarities.