Another group of reformers, often though not altogether correctly referred to as “radical reformers,” insisted thatbaptismbe performed not on infants but on adults who had professed their faith in Jesus. CalledAnabaptists, they remained a marginal phenomenon in the 16th century but survived—despi...
The effects of his life, the response to his teachings, the experience of his death, and the belief in his resurrection were the origins of the Christian community. When the Apostle Peter is represented in the New Testament as confessing that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living ...
Christianity begins withJesus Christ. The effects of his life, the response to his teachings, the experience of his death, and the belief in hisresurrectionwere the origins of the Christian community. When theApostlePeteris represented in theNew Testamentas confessing that Jesus is “the Christ,...