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Menno Simons

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Menno Simons (mĕn`ō sē`mōns), 1496?–1561, Dutch religious reformer. The name of the Mennonites Mennonites (mĕn`nənīts), descendants of the Dutch and Swiss evangelical Anabaptists of the 16th cent.
..... Click the link for more information.  was derived from his name, although he was not the actual founder of the sect. In 1524 he became a Roman Catholic priest but in 1536 he left the church when he announced that he no longer believed in infant baptism and other Catholic teachings. His test of the true Christian was regeneration. He was active in Holland and Germany as an organizer and leader of the less aggressive division of Anabaptists. His writings and sermons were published as Opera omnia theologica (1681).

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See his Complete Writings ed. by J. C. Wenger (tr. 1956); C. J. Dyck, ed., A Legacy of Faith (1962); W. E. Keeney, The Development of Dutch Anabaptist Thought and Practice from 1539–1564 (1968).



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The loose but fervent movement that led George Blaurock, Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel and the handful of others to pouring water on each other's heads in an upstairs room in Zurich in 1525, and made the rebel Dutch priest Menno Simons into a fugitive, was vigorously opposed wherever it cropped up.
The hammer and the Free Spirit: toward a practical heresy by Gundy, Jeff / Cross Currents
Balthasar Hubmaier, Friesen argues, placed Erasmus's writings first when advocating believer's baptism, and Menno Simons provided the clearest statement of the humanist's views in his 1539 Fundamentboek.
Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission by Lindley, W. Terry / Baptist History and Heritage
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