Meaning & use
Anabaptism
A Christian movement and doctrine, arising in the 16th-century Radical Reformation, holding that baptism should occur only after a personal profession of faith.
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Anabaptism rejected infant baptism, insisting that believers choose baptism as adults.
Historians trace modern Mennonite and Amish communities back to early Anabaptism in Switzerland and Germany.
A note on using this word
The name comes from Greek for "re-baptize," since Anabaptists baptized adults who had already been baptized as infants; it is capitalized as the name of a specific religious movement.
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