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“There can be no question but that the great principles of freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, and voluntarism in religion, so basic in American Protestantism and so essential to democracy, ultimately are derived from the Anabaptists of the Reformation period, who for the first time clearly enunciated them and challenged the Christian world to follow them in practice.”

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Book:The Anabaptist Vision
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“In the name of rejecting ecclesiastical authority as "hierarchy" or "tradition" as theological manipulation and bondage, we have instead created a hermeneutic of suspicion and have invested every biblically informed conscience (instead of a pope) to speak ex cathedra. It is a Pyrrhic victory for Free church Protestantism when the net effect of its teaching results in the replacing of the tyranny of the magisterium with the tyranny of individualism.”

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Book:Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
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“One hundred years before the present government existed, a powerful leader, Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, stated his views in clear, unflinching terms. "I thank God," he said, that "there are no free schools nor printing [in this land]. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them...God save us from both!”

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Book:Illiterate America
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“From the very beginning of the movement in the sixteenth century, Anabaptists shared a deep suspicion of the so-called Schriftgelehrten - the university-trained scholars who, they claimed artfully dodged the clear and simple teachings of Jesus by appealing to complex arguments and carefully crafted statements of doctrine. In other words, they confused theological discussions with lived faith.”

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Book:Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice
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“Throughout history, Christians have faced the persistent temptation of confusing the language we use to talk about God with the essence of Christian faith. This stubborn human tendency to turn doctrine into an idol - to confuse a human creation with the truth itself - can easily lead people to wield doctrinal claims as a weapon against minority or dissenting perspectives. Thus, anyone who does not line up with a certain formulation of Christian faith is not only wrong, but also a heretic and therefore worthy of punishment or death.”

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Book:Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice
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“La iglesia bíblica consiste en los que han sido redimidos por Cristo, unidos en una comunión de fe y amor, y comprometidos a la vida de obediencia y santidad. Este concepto espera que cada cristiano verdadero se una voluntariamente a una hermandad cristiana por medio de un compromiso vertical (con Dios) y uno horizontal (con los hermanos). Éste es el cuadro de la iglesia que vemos en el libro de los Hechos.”

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Book:Más allá del Protestantismo
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