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The ana-baptizers or re-baptizers (they called themselves simply Brethren) not only rejected their Roman Catholic infant baptism, but they rejected Luther and Zwingli’s attempts to reform the Catholic Church by the Bible, attempting instead to start from scratch and build a new church from the New Testament alone. Both Zwingli and Luther accepted, in varying

For centuries through the Middle Ages leading up to the 20th century, apologetics was primarily a philosophical discipline that sought to prove the existence of “a god” apart from the Bible. The Classical approach defined the use of the Bible as evangelism and not part of the work of apologetics. That all changed in the

A consideration of the divine call to the ministry of the Word of God is greatly facilitated by examining the teaching of the sixteenth-century reformer, John Calvin. There is great advantage in reflecting upon Calvin’s pastoral doctrine. His pastoral experience was extensive, lasting for nearly thirty years. Apart from his three years of ministry in

At the beginning of 1517, Martin Luther was virtually unknown. A nobody. A non-influencer. Just another monk, in another monastery, doing monkish things. But later that year, on October 31, Martin Luther posted 95 “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church. Theses were a list of items for an academic disputation. Although the theses