had been less authoritative. This would lead to a division between the Schwertler (sword-bearing) and the Stäbler (staff-bearing). Wiedemann and those with...

assertion that Christ was only a "great prophet."[citation needed] As a Schwertler (of-the-sword) Anabaptist, Hubmaier believed government to be an institution...

restitutionists who tried to restore pre-Constantinian Christian primitivism". Schwertler Anabaptists, such as Balthasar Hubmaier, were not nonresistant and supported...

witnessed the May 1527 disputation between the Stäbler (shepherd's staff) und Schwertler (sword) Anabaptist groups. While the Stäbler under the leadership of Hans...