Anabaptist history

For those who want to learn much more about the history of Anabaptism (and have a lot of time on their hands), the videos linked below may be a good place to turn. The twenty-two class sessions (each over an hour in length) are led by Dean Taylor and were filmed at Faith Builders Educational Programs (Guy Mills, Pennsylvania).

One might want to begin with day 5, when the topic turns to the Reformation. Note also days 13 and 14, which deal with the Hutterites, and day 18, which turns to the Russian experience.

• Anabaptist History (day 1): Welcome


• Anabaptist History (day 2): The Early Church


• Anabaptist History (day 3): Early Church Problems and Constantine


• Anabaptist History (day 4): The Church Councils and the Pilgrim Church


• Anabaptist History (day 5): Erasmus, Luther, and the Radical Reformation


• Anabaptist History (day 6): The Early Life of Zwingli and Conrad Grebel


• Anabaptist History (day 7): The Birth of the Anabaptists


• Anabaptist History (day 8): The Early Swiss Brethren


• Anabaptist History (day 9): The Martydom of Michael Sattler and the Schleitheim Confession


• Anabaptist History (day 10): Growth and Persecution of the Swiss Brethren


• Anabaptist History (day 11): The Birth of the Amish


• Anabaptist History (day 12): Early Anabaptist Concept of Missions and the Kingdom of God


• Anabaptist History (day 13): The Birth of the Hutterites, Part 1


• Anabaptist History (day 14): The Hutterites, Part 2


• Anabaptist History (day 15): The Munster Tragedy and Melchior Hoffman


• Anabaptist History (day 16): Menno Simons and the Early Dutch Anabaptists


• Anabaptist History (day 17): The Church Splits of Holland—Lessons for Today


• Anabaptist History (day 18): The Dutch Decline and the Russian Mennonite Fire


• Anabaptist History (day 19): The Anabaptists Come to America


• Anabaptist History (day 20): Anabaptist Revival

• Anabaptist History (day 21): Mission and Missiology

• Anabaptist History (day 22): “Be History Makers!”