6 May 2015 A.D. Schleitheim Confession—Anabaptists’ Confession
6 May 2015 A.D. Schleitheim Confession—Anabaptists’ Confession Nichols, Stephen. “The First Reformation Confession.” 5 Minutes in Church History. 6 May 2015. http://5minutesinchurchhistory.com/the-first-reformation-confession/ . Accessed 6 May 2015. The earliest confession from the Reformation was written not by the followers of Luther or Calvin but by another group called the Radical Reformers. It’s called the Schleitheim Confession, and it was written in Switzerland on February 24, 1527. The Radical Reformers thought that the other Reformers—including Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, and John Calvin in Geneva—did not go far enough in their reforms. Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin are called Magisterial Reformers because they argued for the interdependence of the church and secular authorities (or magistrates). The Radical Reformers thought the root of the problem was this true union of church and state, so they advocated for the separation of church ...