Karlstadt as the Father of the Baptist Movements

Professor Pater presents a revolutionary appraisal of the origins of law Protestantism in the Radical Reformation. Karlstady''s creative contributions to the Reformation in Wittenberg are analysed, and the traditional picture of Karlstadt as an epigone of Luther, challenging his mentor purely out of spite, is discarded.

Pater shows how Karlstadt clearly influenced Ulrich Zwingli''s attitudes towar...