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Anti-Anabaptist Polemics: Dutch Anabaptism and the Devil in England, 1531-1660
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Series: Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies (New Series), Book 1
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ISBN10: 1926599993
ISBN13: 9781926599991
Publisher: Pandora Press
Published: May 14 2023
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781926599991
Publisher: Pandora Press
Published: May 14 2023
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gary K. Waite's original contribution in Anti-Anabaptist Polemics lies in his painstaking analysis of just one strand in the villain's gallery of the heresiographers: the Dutch Anabaptists and Spiritualists. The study began as the 2021 Zeman Lecture delivered at the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies.Waite shows that a distinct pattern of a strongly disapproved set of beliefs settled in English polemic very quickly and consistently, even before 1550, when the Anabaptists were usually condemned. These reviled beliefs and behaviors boiled down to adult instead of infant baptism and the unfortunate reputation for violent intransigence, millenarian iconoclasm, and the complete community of property, both goods and women, associated with the Münster uprising of 1534-1535.
-Nigel Smith, Princeton University, in the Mennonite Quarterly Review Anti-Anabaptist Polemics examines polemical works printed between 1531 (when the first known treatise on Anabaptism was printed in England) and 1660 (when the Restoration brought back royal control over religion after the Interregnum) to gauge how continental Anabaptism was understood, polemically distorted, and utilized as a weapon in the debates over religious diversity in England. In the process, Gary Waite argues that some of the weaponized elements of Dutch and German Anabaptism that were hurled about in thousands of hate-filled pamphlets and treatises over the century not only fed into fears of the devil and witchcraft, but inadvertently offered the discontented a number of innovative ideas to draw from, helping in fact to inspire the surge in new religious movements of the 1640s, even though the intention of the authors was to suppress, not encourage, dissent. Anti-Anabaptist Polemics fills significant gaps in our understanding of the development and impact of polemical publications against Anabaptism in England leading up to the Restoration. Praise for Anti-Anabaptist Polemics The Anabaptists demolished the conventions of early modern Europe - in theology, in politics and in socio-economic affairs. Although few and foreign in England, their reputation for breaking with traditional ways provoked outspoken denunciation there. Gary Waite has analysed the English writers who wrote against Dutch and German Anabaptism between 1531 and 1660, bringing out their habitual concentration on the horrors of the violence, communism, and polygamy of the outbreak at Münster in 1533-35. The English polemicists were eager to blacken the image of Separatists at home by drawing spurious parallels. The effect was to arouse anxiety among adherents of the established Church of England but also, paradoxically, to give ideas to some of those who created new religious movements in the 1640s. Because this study is so revealing about the nature and consequences of hate literature inspired by religion, it holds dismaying relevance for the twenty-first century.
- Dr. David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, this engaging and timely book opens up a fascinating and neglected subject in ways that will interest anyone who looks at religion in early modern England. Essential for those working on English Baptist history, it also offers rich new insights for researchers interested in the intersections of religion, politics, polemic, and the supernatural in the early modern world.
- Dr. Andrew Crome, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Manchester Metropolitan University Anti-Anabaptist Polemics is essential reading for scholars interested in the early modern polemics of hate and how they speak to our own moment of polarization and extremism.
- Dr. Michelle D. Brock, Associate Professor of History, Washington and Lee University
- Dr. David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, this engaging and timely book opens up a fascinating and neglected subject in ways that will interest anyone who looks at religion in early modern England. Essential for those working on English Baptist history, it also offers rich new insights for researchers interested in the intersections of religion, politics, polemic, and the supernatural in the early modern world.
- Dr. Andrew Crome, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Manchester Metropolitan University Anti-Anabaptist Polemics is essential reading for scholars interested in the early modern polemics of hate and how they speak to our own moment of polarization and extremism.
- Dr. Michelle D. Brock, Associate Professor of History, Washington and Lee University
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