Item Detail
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18410
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4
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English
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The Radical Reformation and the Restoration of the Gospel
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Religious Educator
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2006
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7
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no.2
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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65-77
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The Reformation prepared the way for the Restoration. Rather than simply dwelling on the well-known Reformers who are praised throughout Protestantism, Fleming focuses on the acts of the Radical Reformers who are not as well known but who anticipated the Restoration and played a major role in creating an environment in which it could take place. Fleming addresses the work of Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli in the Magisterial Reformation (the movement that mistakenly has since come to embody the entire Reformation) and of clergy in the Catholic Reformation. Many reformers, such as Erasmus, did not join the Protestant Reformation. Although it did not draw as many followers, the Radical Reformation advocated greater reform and change than the Magisterial Reformation. Radical reformers such as the Anabaptists Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, Michael Sattler, and Jacob Hutter, were persecuted by both Catholics and Protestants. Anabaptist influence in America among the Baptists and Quakers laid the foundation for an environment of greater religious tolerance by 1830. In fact, many of the Church's early converts were descendants of the radicals in colonial America