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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809901603321

Autore

Waite Gary K. <1955->

Titolo

David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism, 1524-1543 / / Gary K. Waite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

1-55458-608-9

1-282-23353-X

9786613811271

0-88920-567-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait

Disciplina

284.3

Soggetti

Anabaptists - Netherlands - History

Anabaptists - Netherlands

Davidists

Netherlands Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; One The Early Reform Movement in the Netherlands; Two The Anabaptist Movement in Holland, 1531-35; Three From Sacramentarian Lay Reformer to Melchiorite Sympathiser, 1501-33; Four From Anabaptist to Nicodemite, 1534-39; Five Joris' Early Theology, 1534-36; Six Joris and the Post-Munster Radicals, 1536-39; Seven Confrontation with the Elders of Israel: The Strasbourg Debate; Eight Joris' Followers and Supporters: A Social Analysis; Nine Joris' Asylum in Antwerp, 1539-44

Ten Joris in Basel, 1544-56; Appendix; I Anabaptist Leaders Active after 1535; II Jorien Ketel's Confession; III Ketel's Letter to His Wife; IV Leonard van Dam's Vision of the Heavenly Man; V Public Confession of Sins; VI The Internal Restitution; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Waite's biography of Joris concentrates on his career as a Dutch Anabaptist instead of his later, better-known activity as a Spiritualist in Basel. Waite argues convincingly that, from 1536 to 1539, Joris was the



most influential Anabaptist leader in the Netherlands. Adopting a middle path between the revolutionary chiliasm of the M?nster Anabaptist kingdom and the radical separatism of Menno Simons and his flock, Joris sought to unite the splintered Melchiorite movement unde rhis leadership. However, as Waite notes, history has been unkind to Joris.