ABSTRACT
The name “Anabaptists” was given by its opponents to a loosely connected grouping of evangelical Christians in the sixteenth century. It is a translation of the German “Wiedertäufer,” and means rebaptizers. The name was first applied to a group that formed in Switzerland around Conrad Grebel and, after Grebel’s death, Michael Sattler, in the 1520s. It is now applied, especially in English-speaking scholarship, to much of the so-called Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century.
