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Dirk Philips was one of the most important early leaders and bishops of the Dutch Anabaptists, later called Mennonites. Although he usually worked in Menno's shadow, in his later years he emerged as an important leader and author of theological treatises.
The purpose of this book is to shed light on the thought of Dirk Philips, who was a Mennonite leader in the sixteenth century, and to argue that his various doctrines, including his Christology, ecclesiology, soteriology, and anthropology, are interrelated with his view of the visible church. This book explains that Dirk Philips’ view of the visible church is much closer to the ecclesiology of Augustine’s tradition rather than to the ecclesiology of the Donatists’ tradition. Although Dirk Philips had excellent theological abilities and he was a leader who made a significant contribution to the development of the Mennonites camp, he did not receive much attention in the study of Anabapt...
This series makes available in English the primary works of major Anabaptist figures of the 16th century as well as the writings of other religious thinkers who influenced or shed light on the Anabaptist movement. Contains all the known writings of key Anabaptist leader Dirk Philips (1504-1568) translated into English from Dutch of Philips' original 1564 volume. Includes annotations and introductions making it useful to both general readers and scholars. Philips' treatises make important contributions to the literature of early Anabaptism. He writes about the incarnation, baptism and the Lord's Supper, the sending of preachers, the tabernacle, the new birth, the ban and avoidance, and marriage.