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The Pacifism of the Sixteenth Century Anabaptists*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Harold S. Bender
Harold S. Bender
Affiliation:
Goshen College
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Extract

A preliminary word should be said about the propriety of the use of the late, twentieth-century term “pacifism” to apply to the peace doctrines of the sixteenth-century Anabaptists. As it has been used since World War I pacifism designates broadly an idealistic anti-militarist position whose goal is the elimination of war in history.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1955 , pp. 119 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1955

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