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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
- 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
- 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
- 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