The Reformers and Their Stepchildren

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The Reformers and Their Stepchildren examines the terms of reproach given to Anabaptists by the Reformers. The rift between the Reformers and the Anabaptists, “was the result of a problem that perennially besets the Church of Christ, the problem of how to relate that Church to the environment.”

The Anabaptists receive sympathetic treatment by the author, in part, he says, because “history has to a large extent demonstrated that they were in a large way right. Little by little, step by step, item by item, Protestantism has, at least in the New World, come to endorse the very emphases for which these men pioneered.”