John B. Toews is Professor Emeritus of Church History and Anabaptist Studies at Regent College. He is the author of Czars, Soviets and Mennonites, Perilous Journey: The Mennonite Brethren in Russia, 1860-1910, Lost Fatherland: The Story of the Mennonite Emigration from Soviet Russia, 1921-1927, and Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin's Russia.
The Anabaptist Story
Speaker(s): John Toews
Date: Spring 1997
Length: 20hr 6min
Product ID: RGDL2738S
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Description
This series offers a descriptive and analytical study of sixteenth-century Anabaptist history and theology within the context of other sixteenth-century developments. It also explores the relevance of this heritage for contemporary doctrinal, congregational and personal life. Lectures include:
- The Reformation Setting
- Ulrich Zwingli
- Felix Mantz; Sattler and Schleitheim
- Jakob Hutter and the Hutterian Brethren
- Hutterian Community of Goods
- Balthasar Hubmaier
- Thomas Muentzer and the Peasants War
- Anabaptist Backgrounds in the Netherlands
- Melchior Hoffmann and the Muensterite Episode
- Menno Simons
- Aspects of 16th Century Dutch Anabaptism
- Anabaptist Martyrdom: The Martyr's Mirror
- Women in Anabaptism
- Anabaptist Concept of the Church
- The Lord's Supper and Baptism in Anabaptism
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