Menno Simons
Dutch reformer, pacifist
Menno Simons was a 16th-century Dutch priest who left the Catholic Church to become a leader of the Anabaptist movement, which rejected infant baptism and state-church authority.
His followers became known as Mennonites.
The name appears primarily in religious and historical contexts: Menno Simons emphasized pacifism and separation from worldly power.
- AmishTraditional simple-living sect
- MennonitesProtestant Anabaptist denomination
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- FrieslandDutch province, distinct language
- adult baptismSacrament for professing converts
Protestant Reformation · nonviolence · rebaptism · Radical Reformation · peace movements · fugitive · church discipline · discipleship · conscientious objection · Hutterites · Christian ethics · Quakers · religious tolerance · exile · believer · underground · persecution · congregation
- Reformation ClergyMartin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer
- AnabaptistsMennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Anabaptist, Hutterite
- Dutch TheologiansErasmus
- Baroque TheologiansBlaise Pascal
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- Reformation FiguresMartin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, Luther, Calvin