Catholic Heritage Show W/ Dr. Estrada

The Anabaptists were groups of non-Catholic Western Christians who were opposed to the Catholic Church on the one hand, and the Protestant Reformation on the other. All Anabaptists groups agreed on the principle of believer’s baptism, which they believed, excluded infants. Most Anabaptist group accepted the central claims to authority offered by the Protestant Reformation, namely, the doctrine of sola scriptura (scriptura alone). They agreed in principle with the Protestant Reformers that the Scripture alone ought to decide what Christians ought to believe with regard to faith and morals. However, they interpreted those same Scriptures to very different ends, especially in the area of the administration of the sacraments. They repudiated the doctrine of infant baptism, which some Anabaptists regarded as the first and fundamental error of the Roman Catholic Church, even though it was openly advocated and practiced by the Protestant Reformers. The Lutheran and the Swiss Reformations, headed respectively by Mart