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By Jarrod McKenna ‘Anglican-Anabaptists’, ‘Charismatic-Anabaptists’, ‘Emerging church-Anabaptists’, ‘Baptist-Anabaptists’, and even 'Mennonite-Anabaptists'! :) I’ve just returned from the bi-national executive board meeting of the “Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand”, or AAANZ (sounds impressive hey!). For those that are going... “Anna who?” An explanation of this important tradition which for many is providing a 'new' (but ancient) wineskin for the 21st century. Anabaptism i… Continue

Via The Anabaptist Network Among the fascinating things that are going on today are the reemergence from the margins of Christendom of the Celtic and the Anabaptist Christian traditions. There are many differences between these traditions. The Celtic tradition is very old; it emerged in the sixth century in the Christianization of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Northumbria; it is a tradition associated with the evangelization of the C… Continue

Anabaptism is unique among all ecclesial frames for reference derived from the Reformation in many ways, one of which involves its Catholic roots and specifically Benedictine roots. Unlike Luther the Augustinian, Calvin the lawyer, or Zwingli the Christian humanist, the Anabaptist tradition arose largely in the soil of the Benedictine tradition. This is seen most clearly in the influence of Michael Sattler over the Radical Reformation. The earliest Anabaptist confession, The Schletheim Confessio… Continue