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- of the belief system to which one is converted and, furthermore, upon the personality characteristics of the convert. Conversion can be described as intellectual17 KB (2,721 words) - 14:18, 31 December 2018
- the French for a short period, who attempted to catholicize the town. To convert the Mennonites they sent Dr. Formantijn from Paris; but van Voorst’s superior4 KB (613 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- he was beheaded on 7 August 1587 after a vain attempt by the Jesuits to convert him (Die Lieder der Hutlerischen Brűder, 785). The first settlement of Jesuits7 KB (971 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- Catholic Church. In 1563 the Catholic priest Georg Cassander was assigned to convert to Catholicism the Anabaptist teacher Johannes Campanus, who had for years13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:37, 20 July 2021
- called "Lug ins Land." Osiander and other theologians tried in vain to convert him. In 1536 the council had a whole Bible brought to him with Melanchthon's15 KB (2,514 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
- rulers. But he did not yield, and sent the pastor Raidt to Mühlhausen to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned there; Raidt was surprisingly successful in persuading24 KB (3,956 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- records would be appropriate if Ammann had been a convert from the Reformed Church to Anabaptism. As a new convert Ammann might have become more committed to7 KB (1,152 words) - 21:30, 29 October 2019
- Strasbourg, Alsace. Among them baptism was performed as a sign that the adult convert was forsaking the world, the flesh, and the devil, and entering into a covenant4 KB (521 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- Hearings took place at Imst in 1538, to which Dr. Gallus Müller was sent to convert the accused. But Müller's efforts were in vain. There Sebastian Hubmaier6 KB (1,001 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- of Eisenach, and who persisted in their faith in spite of all efforts to convert them. They were Hans Köhler of Eyerode and Hans Scheffer of Hastungsfelde9 KB (1,348 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- and after repeated cross-examination, cruel torture, and vain attempts to convert him was beheaded on 5 March 1558, at the age of 25 years (not 5 May as stated7 KB (1,047 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- (1740-1780) allowed the otherwise forbidden Jesuits to exert all means to convert non-Catholics back to the Roman Church. And what torture, dungeon, and executioners126 KB (6,564 words) - 00:19, 5 August 2023
- had concentrated sufficiently in this area in 1874 to buy a tavern and convert it into a meetinghouse. Church activities outgrew this building by 18832 KB (354 words) - 16:38, 20 September 2014
- Dionysius Vinne, traveled from Münster to Osnabrück in October 1534 in order to convert this town. They were all arrested before they could begin their work; four757 bytes (182 words) - 15:48, 20 January 2014
- cross-examined two days later. The attempts made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert him were fruitless. Even if he had recanted, his tragic fate would not have22 KB (3,489 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- given two or three hours for reflection; then new attempts were made to convert them, with the result that three prisoners recanted, while Christoph Ortlep6 KB (959 words) - 00:27, 16 January 2017
- Anabaptists in his country. But he continued his practice of trying to convert them by conversations with clergymen. Leonard Dax, a Hutterite missioner45 KB (5,948 words) - 12:32, 15 May 2019
- the heretics. This reputation induced Philip of Hesse to summon him to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned in Marburg. But before this Bucer still had to36 KB (5,619 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- (4) the water of baptism does not save. The greatest efforts were made to convert him. "Even the prince had pity upon him and is said to have most urgently1 KB (313 words) - 19:03, 20 August 2013
- Hans Gurtzham. A deacon and the parson of Villach put forth much effort to convert them, but were worsted by the superior Biblical knowledge of the defendants7 KB (1,201 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
- Innsbruck and imprisoned in the Krauter tower. He refused all attempts to convert him, and died at the stake on 2 June 1529 at Innsbruck. The authorities2 KB (381 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- repeatedly, and Dax defended his faith with skill, resisting all attempts to convert him to the Reformed faith. He boldly voiced his opposition to the use of3 KB (528 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- missions first found expression in 1876, when Christian Hope, a Danish convert in this country, returned to his homeland to share his new-found faith with17 KB (2,603 words) - 06:15, 6 October 2016
- convinced of the truth of their faith, that all attempts of the clergy to convert them failed and threats of punishment did not move them. The expectation5 KB (867 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- commissioned in September 1764 by Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria-Hungary, to convert the Anabaptists (Hutterites) living at Alwinz in the Hungarian province2 KB (296 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- and were attended by great crowds. His first difficult assignment was to convert Jakob Hutter, who had just been brought to prison. Müller no doubt did all8 KB (1,315 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- inflicted the death penalty in spiritual matters, but first undertook to convert the heretics. Sometimes they held formal disputations; theologians from3 KB (551 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- Sterzing. Wearied by his long imprisonment and the continued attempts to convert him, he escaped from the tower. "God helped' him out," say the Hutterite10 KB (1,701 words) - 22:38, 13 June 2017
- Reformed church council of the Palatinate had ceremonious attempts made to convert four Anabaptists at Bretten. Summoning all his scholarship, the Reformed7 KB (1,066 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- entered into the meetinghouse during services in order to address and "to convert" the Mennonites; they repeatedly held debates with the noted Mennonite leader8 KB (1,052 words) - 21:08, 13 October 2014
- evangelists summarily thrown into prison and under this pressure tried to convert them. The charge that the government was persecuting the Anabaptists without7 KB (1,039 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- opponent of the Anabaptists he brought it about that an attempt was made to convert Erbe. To this end Erbe was taken to the monastery in Eisenach and kept there3 KB (614 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- Emperor Charles VI authorized the creation of a special Jesuit mission to convert them to the Roman Catholic faith. Such a mission, composed of Johan Milan9 KB (1,402 words) - 20:50, 26 November 2013
- be converted by teaching and instruction rather than punished with the sword. Summoned by the Duke of Cleve, Cassander went to Duisburg to convert the4 KB (530 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- district had been formed as the result of the work of a young Canadian convert, Peter Cober, and Daniel Brenneman. Other early workers were Samuel Shirk1 KB (254 words) - 15:58, 27 July 2014
- expressly promised in the Edict was prohibited. All means were used to convert the Protestants. The most terrible of these was the compulsory quartering7 KB (1,166 words) - 00:35, 16 January 2017
- went to Strasbourg (Cornelius, II, 274). Here the reformers tried again to convert him. He left the city, but returned in August, and was seized on 22 October10 KB (1,595 words) - 23:23, 15 January 2017
- imperial mandates solemnly read in the churches, an effort was still made to convert the Anabaptists by having preachers and university professors debate with32 KB (4,637 words) - 16:12, 6 April 2020
- missionary. In 1884 J. J. Kliewer succeeded S. S. Haury and in 1888 the first convert was baptized. In 1896, because the Indigenous were moving away and the children3 KB (445 words) - 18:14, 26 January 2023
- Noah Mack was the superintendent of the mission until 1910. The first convert was baptized in 1917, but a permanent congregation was not established until7 KB (842 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
- Anabaptists some pious souls, whom Blaurer could, with his gentleness, convert. But most of them, Blaurer says, were maliciously intent upon re-establishing8 KB (1,169 words) - 23:18, 15 January 2017
- Allendorf, were sent to Wolkersdorf by Philipp of Hesse in August 1538 to convert the prisoners, Georg Schnabel was already at home with his family. But they3 KB (443 words) - 18:58, 20 August 2013
- consolidated her empire, she gave special orders to Jesuit missionaries to convert the Anabaptists still extant in her realm. We read in the Geschicht-Buch15 KB (2,293 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2017
- were obviously amazed. Two learned clergymen came expressly from Munich to convert him, but it was to no avail. Their rational theology was one thing, his7 KB (1,105 words) - 08:41, 19 December 2014
- The preachers of the city, Rhegius, Frosch, Agricola and Keller, were to convert them. On 21 and 25 September 1527 they disputed for hours with the prisoners25 KB (3,662 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- Anabaptist menace in London and Kent. Cranmer was active, however, in seeking to convert Anabaptists by methods of persuasion. In April 1549 he and other church47 KB (7,073 words) - 15:06, 29 March 2021
- necessary examine them about their fellow members and leaders, and try to convert them. All children should be baptized early. Those who refused to have theirs51 KB (7,917 words) - 23:58, 15 January 2017
- the Lower Austrian Landmarschall, Hans Wilhelm, Baron of Rogendorf, to convert the brothers Marx and Bernhard Klampferer, but to no avail. In the 1580s5 KB (833 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- Glaser and taken to Imst. Dr. Gall (see Gallus Müller) was sent to Imst to convert them, but his trouble was in vain. The confession made by Grünfelder reveals4 KB (593 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- were not producing the desired results, and that more could be done to convert the Anabaptists by persuasion. In Dr. Gallus Müller, court preacher in Innsbruck9 KB (1,435 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- Bishop Heinrich von Ackon decided to have various scholars attempt to convert them. They had partial success. Two mothers of newborn babies agreed to4 KB (756 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- after a marriage of two years, and urged her to be steadfast. He tried to convert his fellow prisoners by proclaiming God's Word to them. While he was being6 KB (1,041 words) - 00:01, 16 January 2017
- mission also ended in failure. Once more Fabricius was used by Philipp to convert imprisoned Anabaptists. In August 1538, when he was pastor at Allendorf4 KB (572 words) - 03:09, 12 April 2014
- insurrectionists and violators of electoral commands, and after another attempt to convert them, were banished. The protocol was published three months after the disputation12 KB (1,826 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- church. He probably died in prison, since Peter Tesch had tried in vain to convert him. All of Rinck's writings but three have been lost. One of these is an11 KB (1,791 words) - 16:44, 16 May 2022
- castle. He was again cross-examined. A priest was summoned from Bregenz to convert him, and hoped to gain honor and fame by this colloquy. But when he was3 KB (544 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- criminals, they zealously confessed their faith and defied all attempts to convert them; nor did they change their view after nearly a year of imprisonment2 KB (427 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- Church) came to birth in July 1904 with the baptism of P. A. Penner's first convert, Sirkanti Bai, a patient suffering from Hansen's Disease (leprosy). She6 KB (979 words) - 15:11, 27 July 2014
- arrival Musculus and his colleague Bonifacius Wolfhart began his attempts to convert them. Jakob Daschser, who had been in prison since 28 August 1527, and had4 KB (631 words) - 23:28, 15 January 2017
- Anabaptists teach is wicked, yet we must use caution and use every means to convert them before we reach for the sword." And the chaplain Melander said, "The54 KB (8,867 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- this last extremity, and do not hold this evil deed to their account, but convert them; for they know not what they do." He was a native of Kortrijk, living2 KB (361 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- some willow thickets into pasture. With pick and hoe it would be easier to convert them than with the Bible. Their imprisonment continued. The Urach Pfarrelationen3 KB (486 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- directions by the Innsbruck government to have competent and pious priests convert them, and to report the names of those who recanted and deliver the obstinate5 KB (837 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- former he preached seven successive sermons in 1556; the latter he tried to convert through church inspections. According to his statement, five councilmen5 KB (860 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- Boyars. However, his father refused to send his son to Moscow and have him convert to the Orthodox faith. Instead, Sigismund proposed that Wladyslaw reign4 KB (698 words) - 18:12, 16 November 2016
- Anabaptists who had been taken prisoner, in order to convert them, but Corvinus did not succeed in "converting those stubborn Widertouffer." Corvinus wrote much2 KB (390 words) - 03:01, 12 April 2014
- courthouse in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. All attempts to convert them having failed, they were sentenced to die by drowning. On the way to3 KB (495 words) - 23:27, 15 January 2017
- money. They made a confession of their faith. The priests tried in vain to "convert" them. The prisoners were finally told that they would be tolerated if they3 KB (505 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- baptism from him. Uolimann had met Grebel in Schaffhausen and become a convert; he did not want to have the customary basin of water poured over him, "but16 KB (2,526 words) - 07:58, 29 October 2013
- should be permitted to attend the meetings of the sectarians in order to convert them. Marnix van St. Aldegonde even favored capital punishment for them7 KB (1,176 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- definite experience. This was expressed in general or special meetings by the convert rising to his feet sometimes during the sermon and asking the church for24 KB (2,911 words) - 12:42, 21 March 2024
- the Mennonite population was evacuated westward. The meetinghouse was converted into a cinema. Dormann, E. and H. Eckerdt. Geschichte des Kreises Marienburg3 KB (499 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- council favored expulsion, and the clergy undertook public attempts to convert them. A confession of faith discovered in the search of a house was sent8 KB (1,308 words) - 19:14, 29 April 2020
- Müller, noted for his success in leading prisoners to recant, took pains to convert Glaser and his fellow prisoners, Hans Grünfelder and the aged Oswald, he5 KB (719 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- sent a letter to the Speyer council, requesting them to receive the two to convert the Anabaptists at Speyer. MLA style Neff, Christian. "Eysenburg, Johann811 bytes (191 words) - 19:12, 20 August 2013
- Abraham and Anna Ratzlaff, and Gerhard and Katharina Giesbrecht. The first convert, Sepe Thama (i.e., a son), was baptized after ten years of work. In 19513 KB (460 words) - 16:55, 26 January 2023
- Cleve called the noted Catholic scholar George Cassander to Duisburg to convert the Anabaptists there. There may have been some continuing traces of Anabaptism3 KB (445 words) - 16:57, 12 April 2014
- Korrespondenz mit den Graubündnern II, 33). On the other hand, his attempts to convert an imprisoned Anabaptist failed (see Grisons). He died 5 September 15661 KB (218 words) - 14:32, 23 August 2013
- that Gentner had not opposed him on this point. Hans Feuerbach, a recent convert, was then sent to Württemberg to summon Gentner and Kramer to Moravia. Gentner4 KB (693 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- He rejected the attempts of the Catholic priests and the city council to convert him and was therefore sentenced to death. After two questionings on the2 KB (326 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- had entered the Bruderhof in Sobotište and had made a futile attempt to convert the Hutterian Brethren; now another attempt was made by summoning the leaders7 KB (1,135 words) - 18:55, 28 July 2018
- Balthasar Raidt, also of Hersfeld, was often engaged by the authorities to convert the Anabaptists; he reported that by 1544 he had dealt with over 300 Anabaptists2 KB (299 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- 1530 Kolb and Kaspar Grossman, in the presence of the Council, tried to convert the Swiss Brethren leader, Konrad Eichacher, by means of Romans 8, but was2 KB (385 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- account of Protestant sympathies. He had been used by the city council to convert the Anabaptists. With the final establishment of the Reformation in the4 KB (604 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- unrighteous living. The Catholic clergy made repeated sincere efforts to convert him; on the very scaffold he was offered freedom if he would recant only3 KB (455 words) - 07:00, 16 January 2017
- that Menno Simons joined in January 1536. Sicke Freerks was obviously a convert of Melchior Hofmann's, as well as Jan Volkertsz Trypmaker of Hoorn, who5 KB (727 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- Catholic priest had appeared in the Mennonite church and was trying to convert them; such a crowd gathered before the little church that the meeting had2 KB (364 words) - 00:25, 16 January 2017
- private residences were bought and converted into girls' boarding houses. In 1948 the old school building was converted into a boys' residence and infirmary3 KB (500 words) - 00:52, 16 January 2017
- scorpions. But he defied all force as well as the attempts of the clergy to convert him. He was executed at St. Lorenzen on 5 August 1592. The list of martyrs13 KB (2,094 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- Hohenwittlingen, where he was held prisoner for several decades. After an attempt to convert him in 1608 his tormentors apparently abandoned all hope of his returning4 KB (730 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- contacts both in Germany and Holland with the Anabaptists, trying even to convert them to his way; but this endeavor ended with totally negative results.27 KB (3,835 words) - 14:04, 31 December 2018
- the White Mountain near Prague (8 November 1620), were intent on either converting or expelling them. On 17 September 1622, Emperor Ferdinand II and on 284 KB (617 words) - 17:05, 17 September 2014
- orphanages. As this need diminished, French Mennonites were challenged to convert some of these homes to the care of persons with mental retardation. in 195115 KB (1,975 words) - 13:15, 19 March 2014
- God. After the conclusion of the cross-examination and the attempts to convert them Lober stated that he would not desist from his faith; likewise spoke14 KB (2,408 words) - 23:24, 15 January 2017
- delegates from Styria decided that if they did not respond to efforts to convert them, they should be branded on the forehead and expelled; two delegates4 KB (726 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- salvation through repentance and faith, but which ordinarily leaves the new convert less than a fully victorious child of God; and second, the second work of9 KB (1,388 words) - 19:48, 20 August 2013
- difficult for the group. No strong leadership emerged until an earlier convert to the CGC from Lutheran parentage, Fredrick C. Fricke (1867-1947), took66 KB (4,242 words) - 14:54, 23 March 2021
- pity for her youth and sex, attempts had been made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert her. Though she was not versed in the Scriptures, she clung to her faith4 KB (645 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- baptism. The authorities, assisted by the clergy, sought fanatically "to convert him," but in vain. Willem remained steadfast. Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad845 bytes (180 words) - 16:02, 18 October 2016
- Francijntgen, and Maeyken Doornaerts. In spite of the special efforts to convert her because of her youth, she remained steadfast to the end. Braght, Thieleman2 KB (283 words) - 17:11, 11 June 2020