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Waterlander

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Wa`ter`land´er
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; - so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
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The disagreement centered on the validity of Smyth's se-baptism and differing views on joining the Waterlander Mennonite church in Amsterdam.
John Smyth's request for Mennonite recognition and admission: four ... by Timmer, Kirsten T. / Baptist History and Heritage
Because of the importance of the martyr songs in the sixteenth-century era of persecution, and because the Frisians and Flemish outnumbered the Waterlanders (perhaps by three to one), Gregory intends through republication of these "forgotten writings" to enrich the scholarship on Mennonite martyrology, which has up to now been focused too exclusively on Van Braght's Martyr's Mirror.
The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs by Stayer, James M. / Renaissance Quarterly
On the other hand, in Holland, Calvinism dominated the established church, and the dissenting Waterlander Mennonites were Arminians, which makes the stance of the early Baptists more understandable.
Baptists and their theology by Humphreys, Fisher / Baptist History and Heritage
 
 
 
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