Editing Reformation (section)

=== Radical Reformation ===
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In parts of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, a majority sympathised with the Radical Reformation despite intense persecution.<ref name=horsch>{{cite book |last=Horsch|first=John|title= Mennonites in Europe|date=1995|publisher= Herald Press|isbn= 978-0-8361-1395-2|page=299}}</ref> Although the surviving proportion of the European population that rebelled against Catholic, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] and [[Zwinglian]] churches was small, Radical Reformers wrote profusely and the literature on the Radical Reformation is disproportionately large, partly as a result of the proliferation of the Radical Reformation teachings in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title= The European Reformation|author= Euan Cameron|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1991|isbn= 978-0-19-873093-4 |place=New York}}</ref>

Despite significant diversity among the early Radical Reformers, some "repeating patterns" emerged among many Anabaptist groups. Many of these patterns were enshrined in the [[Schleitheim Confession|''Schleitheim Confession'' (1527)]] and include [[Believer's baptism|believers' (or adult) baptism]], memorial view of the [[Eucharist|Lord's Supper]], belief that Scripture is the final authority on matters of faith and practice, emphasis on the [[New Testament]] and the [[Sermon on the Mount]], interpretation of Scripture in community, separation from the world and a [[Two kingdoms doctrine|two-kingdom theology]], [[pacifism]] and [[nonresistance]], communal ownership and economic sharing, belief in the freedom of the will, non-swearing of oaths, "yieldedness" (''Gelassenheit'') to one's community and to God, the [[Shunning|ban]] (i.e., shunning), salvation through divinization (''Vergöttung'') and ethical living, and discipleship (''Nachfolge Christi'').<ref>Andrew P. Klager, "Ingestion and Gestation: Peacemaking, the Lord's Supper, and the Theotokos in the Mennonite-Anabaptist and Eastern Orthodox Traditions", ''Journal of Ecumenical Studies'' 47, no. 3 (summer 2012): pp. 441–42.</ref>