什麼是再洗禮派

16世紀歐洲宗教改革運動（Rofomnation）中的激進派。該派最突出的特點在於主張唯成年受洗（baptism）方為有效。他們遵循瑞士宗教改革家茨溫利（Huldryoh Zwingli）的說法，認為嬰兒不應受到罪的懲罰，只有到了人能夠區別善惡之後才可以，那時他們才能行使自由意志、告解悔改而接受洗禮。再洗禮派運動起源於蘇黎世一批青年知識分子，其中一位閔采爾（Thomas Muntzer）宣稱，再洗禮派所生存的時代，已經是接近末世。1525年他領導圖林根（Thüringen）農民起義，不久被處死。許多再洗禮派信徒在統治摩拉維亞（Moravia）安家落戶。他們自稱胡特爾派（Hutterite）。現今仍然存在，主要分佈在加拿大和美國西部。荷蘭和德國北部宗奉和平主義的再洗禮派在西門（Menno Simons）的領導下形成門諾會。

Anabaptist

Member of a radical movement of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation characterized by adult baptism. Following Huldrych Zwingli, Anabaptists held that infants were not punishable for sin since they had no awareness of good and evil and thus could not yet exercise free will, repent, and accept baptism. Confident of living at the end of time, early Anabaptists sought to restore the institutions and spirit of the primitive church. The first adult baptisms took place outside Zurich in early 1525. Most Anabaptists were pacifists and refused to swear civil oaths. They were expelled from one city after another, and many were martyred. Thomas Muntzer emphasized the end-time and was executed after leading the Thuringian peasant revolt (1525). Many Anabaptists settled in Moravia, where they stressed the community of goods modeled on the primitive church at Jerusalem. This branch continues as the Hutterite movement, primarily in the western U.S. and Canada. Increasingly persecuted throughout Europe, Anabaptists in the Netherlands and northern Germany rallied under the leadership of Menno Simonsz. and survive as the Mennonites.