Editing Reformation (section)

===''Schleitheim Articles''===

[[File:Titelseite Schleitheimer Artikel.jpg|thumb|right|alt=A page with printed text|Title page of the ''[[Schleitheim Confession|Schleitheim Articles]]'' passed at the pacifist Anabaptists' assembly in 1527]]

The historian [[Carter Lindberg]] states that the "Peasants' War was a formative experience for many leaders of Anabaptism".{{sfn|Lindberg|2021|p=204}} [[Hans Hut]] (d. 1527) continued Müntzer's apocalyticism but others rejected all forms of violence.{{sfn|Stayer|2006|p=138}} 

The pacifist [[Michael Sattler]] (d. 1527) took the chair at an Anabaptist assembly at [[Schleitheim]] in February 1527. Here the participants adopted an anti-militarist program now known as the ''[[Schleitheim Confession|Schleitheim Articles]]''. The document ordered the believers' separation from the evil world, and prohibited oath-taking, bearing of arms and holding of civic offices. Facing Ottoman expansionism, the Austrian authorities considered this pacifism as a direct threat to their country's defense. Sattler was quickly captured and executed. During his trial, he stated that "If the Turks should come, we ought not to resist them. For [[Matthew 5:21|it is written:]] Thou shalt not kill."{{sfn|Lindberg|2021|pp=204–207}}{{sfn|Cameron|2012|p=328}}

Total segregation was alien to Hübmaier who tried to achieve a peaceful coexistence with non-Anabaptists.{{sfn|Collinson|2005|p=70}} Expelled from Zürich, he settled in the [[Margraviate of Moravia|Moravian]] domains of Count Leonhard von Liechtenstein at Nikolsburg (now [[Mikulov]], Czech Republic). He baptised infants on the parents' request for which hard-line Anabaptists regarded him as an evil compromiser. He was sentenced to death and burned at the stake for heresy on {{nowrap|Ferdinand I}}'s orders. His execution inaugurated a period of intensive purge against rebaptisers. His followers relocated to Austerlitz (now [[Slavkov u Brna]], Czech Republic) where refugees from Tyrol joined them. After the Tyrolian [[Jakob Hutter]] (d. 1536) assumed the leadership of the community, they began to held their goods in common. The Bohemian Brethren symphatised with the [[Hutterites]] which facilitated their survival in Moravia.{{sfn|MacCulloch|2003|pp=161–165}}