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John Calvin Treatises against the Anabaptists and against the Libertines
Overview: In this book the author examines that group's rejection of infant baptism, its excommunication of members after the second admonition, its refusal to bear arms, and its withdrawal from politics and government. The author concludes by treating the doctrines of the incarnation and of the soul's state after death. A twentieh-century Mennonite scholar has said that the author, for his time, "deals with the Anabaptists in an exceptionally fair manner." The author's treatise Against the Libertines incisively refutes that group's patheistic determinism, Gnostic christology, libertine view of Christia liberty, and denial of a future resurrection. This work should prove to be, in the translator's words, "a valuable resource for exploring anew both Calvin's rejection of Mysticism and his concern for the believer's spiritual union' with Christ."
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