Anabaptists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
ANABAPTISTS an bap tists Gr.,=rebaptizers, name applied, originally...baptized in infancy must be baptized again as an adult (Anabaptists did not consider adult baptism to be a repetition, as...critics charged, since infant baptisms were annulled). Anabaptists were prominent in Europe during the 16th cent., forming...