An act by twelve men symbolized the real true break with Roman Catholicism. The word Anabaptist literally means to be baptized again, thus going against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. After these men were baptized, they formed a church that was modeled in the New Testament pattern. They also emphasized the requirement of personal commitment to Christ before one could be baptized. This reformation led by Zwingli was the result of faithful searching of the Scriptures by men who wanted to follow God correctly (Curtis).
How Anabaptism all was started:
On a crisp October night in 1517, the thirty-first to be exact, a black-garbed Augustinian monk made his way undetected to the castle church. The place was an insignificant medieval German town named Wittenberg. With swift, determined strokes he nailed one of the most inflammable documents of the age to the church door, which served as the village bulletin board. Within a fortnight all Europe was echoing the sound of the inauspicious hammer. A month later the hardly-audible taps had become a sledge hammer blows assailing the very citadel of the Roman Catholic Church. For the Austin friar of that October night was Martin Luther and the apparently innocent Latin manuscripts was his first fusillade against Rome, the ninety-five thesis (Estep pg 1).
The first people group to really start the Anabaptism movement and reform were the people of the town of Zurich, Switzerland in 1517. By the year of 1522, the reformation this town really started to take shape and one of the main reasons for that was a man named Ulrich Zwingli.
In the year 1517, Zwingli was a German-speaking priest who was studying Greek. At this time Zwingli was a humanist. But by th ...