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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; 1. Research Questions and Method; 2. Biographical Sketch of Balthasar Hubmaier; 3. Balthasar Hubmaier: Anabaptist Enigma; Origins of Anabaptism and Swiss Anabaptism; Free Church and Contemporary Relevance; Seeking Anabaptist Antecedents; Hermeneutics; 4. The Plumb Line of Holy Scripture; Statements at the Seco nd Zurich Disputation; Eighteen Theses Concerning the Christian Life; An Earnest Christian Appeal to Schaffhausen; Theses Against Eck; On Heretics and Those Who Burn Them; A Letter to Oecolampad.

Several Theses Concerning the MassA Public Challenge; Summary of writings from October 26-28, 1523, to February 2, 1524; 5. The Bright and Clear Word of God; Summa of the Entire Christian Life; Letter to the Zurich Council; On the Christian Baptism of Believers; Summary of writings from Easter 1525 toDecember 5, 1525; 6. Against Those who Mutilate the Word of God; Dialogue with Zwingli's Baptism Book; The Twelve Articles in Prayer Form; A Brief "Our Father"; Recantation at Zurich and Interrogation and Release; Old and New Teachers on Believers' Baptism; On Infant Baptism Against Oecolampad.

9. Hubmaier's Hermeneutic: "Truth is Unkillable"Scripture; Clarity of Scripture; The Commands of God and Forbearance; Christology; Government; Anthropology; Conscience; Languages and Interpretive Method; Assessment; Bibliography; Back Cover.

Of Writings from late 1525 to July 1526, Published 1526-277. Making a Patchwork of Scripture; Introduction; Old and New Teachers on Believers' Baptism; A Brief Apologia; A Simple Instruction; A Christian Catechism; The Ground and Reason; On Fraternal Admonition; A Form for Water Baptism; A Form for Christ's Supper; On the Christian Ban; Freedom of the Will I; Freedom of the Will II; Summary of writings at Nikolsburg from July 1526 to July 1527; 8. Judge Me According to the Word of God; Apologia; Summary of writings from January to March 1528.

During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed Erasmus's claim that the Scriptures were clear, could be understood by even the lowliest servant, and should be translated into the vernacular and placed in the hands of all people. People did not require the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church to correctly interpret the meaning of the Scriptures. However, within a few short years, the leaders of the Magisterial Reformers, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, had created their own Protestant versions of the magisterium. This work traces how the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture found e.

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