Anabaptist denomination

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Anabaptist denomination - a Protestant sect denying infant baptism and baptising only believers

Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations

Anabaptist - adherent of Anabaptism

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The pacifist doctrine of the BICC, an Anabaptist denomination similar to the Mennonites, holds that believers should feel the warmth of God in their hearts, confess and be baptized, and retreat from worldly pursuits.

Wendy Urban-Mead, The Gender of Piety: family, faith, and colonial rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Equally mired in literalism were the unlearned Swiss Brethren, an Anabaptist denomination that emerged in the Palatinate in the 1540s, whose biblicistic understanding of Scripture Marpeck rejected as legalistic.

The living word: Uses of the Holy Scriptures among sixteenth-century Anabaptists in Moravia

Unlike the Amish, Hutterite's fellow Anabaptist denomination, they embrace technology and use computers for business deals with the outside world.