Hubmaier Influence On Religion

Hubmaier was obviously a well-known highly respected participant in the disputation. In regard to images and mass he suggested that errors and abuses had crept in over the centuries, and that these, as in all controversial religious questions, the only standard of judgment was Scripture which God himself had authorized and sanctified. :(Bergsten, Estep, & Barnes, 1978 p 83) Hubmaier theological training prepared him for the tactics of point- point debate on such matters as free will and original sin and especially on the most threatening controverted issue of infant baptism. His gifts as a popular preacher and teacher show to the best advantage in simple polemic tracts and his writings on church order. :(W. H. Pipkin, 1992) p.15
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This view became known as his doctrine of sola fides (italic), which eventually became the clarion call for reforms throughout the entire sixteenth- century Protestant Reformation. (Mabry, 1998, p. 1) Regardless of the receptive method of faith, operating within the practices of the church or operating apart from the church; In whatever way they understood it, these reformers made faith the cornerstone of their whole movement. (Mabry, 1998, p. 1). Hubmaier’s understanding of the nature of the Christian faith was central to his …show more content…
Mabry, 1998, p2). According to Hubmaier’s study of God, either one or the other or both understandings of faith is presupposed. Protestant reformers of Hubmaier’s time, like leaders Luther and Zwingli believed faith was essential for salvation, the sacraments, and the living of Christian life. While he agreed with them, he insisted that faith was necessary for baptism, with emphasis upon the fact that faith (at least in the initial belief stage) as some kind of mental, intellectual, reasoning capacity within human beings, in such a way that one must hear the gospel which comes on him or her through the Word of