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At the same time, however, they were reflecting on how they could effect the transition from baptised child to full Christian. But the reformers rejected this sacrament. For many centuries, confirmation had made children in the Catholic Church full members of the Church. These ideas were not really all that new. This was a belated yes on baptism-and marked the birth of confirmation. Bucer suggested a compromise: before their first participation in the Eucharist, children were to be instructed in the doctrine of the Church and then profess their belief before the congregation. The Anabaptists rejected baptism of children, because small children were not in a position to make a conscious decision for Christ. The paper was so convincing that the Anabaptists peacefully returned to their original communities. Then he drafted a document that went down in church history as the “Ziegenhainer Kirchenordnung” (Ziegenhain Church Order). Confirmation as a bridgeįor five days, Martin Bucer talked with the leading Anabaptists who were incarcerated in Marburg. When controversies had developed at the Marburg Colloquy between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli, the two prominent reformers, Martin Bucer had proven to be quite a talent at mediating between the two. Then Philip, who was described as magnanimous, remembered a man whom he had lodged in his castle in 1529: Martin Bucer. He could have applied the full force of the medieval heresy laws, but he did not want to do this, as he wrote in 1536: “We feel that it would not be right to kill a person for his faith.” He had his own problems with the Anabaptists at home in Hesse. One of the members of this alliance was Philip of Hesse, a landgrave. The latter ended in the middle of 1535 in a bloodbath-following the siege by an alliance of feudal lords. They introduced common ownership of goods, had the city archives burnt, and declared their own kingdom. This was not only reflected by their refusal to perform military service or pay taxes.Īt the beginning of 1534, the Anabaptists took over the city council of Münster, Westphalia. Many of them opposed authority, especially civil authority and the state. They were the radical movement of the Protestant Reformation: the Anabaptists. In opposition to the state and the church Who was this Martin Bucer? For an answer we have to go back almost five hundred years.
There is a street in Marburg that is named after a man who originally came from the Alsace region in France. Marburg is the name of the university city in which Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider will celebrate the Easter service this coming weekend.