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Anabaptist Ecclesiology Reconsidered: Why Restitutio, Not the Rechte Kirche, Defines the Brethren

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Title of the Essay “The Anabaptists proper were those in the radical Reformation who gathered and disciplined a ‘true church’ (rechte Kirche) upon the apostolic pattern as they understood it. In a treatment of Anabaptists, the doctrine of the church affords the clarifying principle of first importance” (Franklin H Littell). Critically discuss the Anabaptist movement in...