Poll/Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Anabaptists?

[Praxis+Theodicy]

I watched this video several days ago and didn't track my answers exactly.

The only thing I remember was that I knew most of the answers, but I got the mode of baptism question wrong. For some reason, I thought most conservative Mennonites practiced sprinkling, not pouring.

You are not alone. Most people who favor immersion (brethren and Anabaptist renewal groups) will say that Mennonites and Amish practice sprinkling. I'm never quite sure if they simply are not familiar with the "pouring doctrine" or the pouring term, or if they are knowingly using the term as a slight against the Amish and Mennonites. The Mennonites I know are very much opposed to "sprinkling" and feel it doesn't meet the grade, just like immersionists feel that pouring does not meet the grade.

I'm not accusing you of this at all since I don't expect those from a non-Anabaptist tradition to understand these technicalities at all.

I actually did hear some of the apologetic discourse in favor of pouring from Mennonites in (I think) the 1800s, in a talk from Edsel Burdge. But I had seen some movies and documentaries depicting early Anabaptists and Amish, both depicted sprinkling, not pouring.

[Neto]

While doing support work for an Old Order business owner last week we were talking about the local case here where an Amish woman drowned her 4 year old son, and in the course of the conversation he (a deacon) told about a case where when he went to fill the "baptismal pitcher" no water came out of the faucet. He prayed, "God, I need enough water for 3 boys." The water began to come slowly, and he got enough. (A horse had kicked a water pipe loose in the barn.)

Anyway, I asked him how they do the baptism, and I would describe what he said as 'trine baptism', because he said that he pours water into the cupped hands of the minister three times, the minister releasing the water in his palms each time over the head of the baptismal candidate.

[Dan Z]

I missed two - The German name for the Apostolic Christian Church, and the name of the documents condemning Anabaptism. Oh well...a perfect score would not have been good for me anyway.

[JimFoxvog]

20 out of 25 here. I've been with Anabaptist groups for over 32 years so feel I should do better, but never had a great interest in German-sounding names.