id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt kk91fj26j0g Julia Qiuye Zhao 'They Compel with Baptism as with a Monkish Vow': Baptism and the Monastic Vow in Medieval Monastic and Early Anabaptist Writing 2020 .txt text/plain 331 11 32 Examination of the writings of early Anabaptists on adult baptism alongside the writings of monastic authors shows that structural similarities do indeed exist between monks committed to Rome and Anabaptists who rejected infant baptism. This study argues that it is the very transformation of Gelassenheit among early Anabaptists which allowed them to create communities which came to resemble monastic communities, built around the vows taken by believers at their baptism. cache/kk91fj26j0g.txt txt/kk91fj26j0g.txt