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	Menno Simons - LoveToKnow 1911
		MENNO SIMONS (1492-1559), religious leader, was born in 1492 at Witmarsum in Friesland.
		Menno was not satisfied with the inconsistent answers which he got from Luther, Bucer and Bullinger; he resolved to rely on Scripture alone, and from this time describes his preaching as evangelical, not sacramental.
		Menno repudiated the formation of a sect; those who had experienced the "new birth" were to him the true Christian church, which was limited by no decree of reprobation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Menno_Simons (764 words)

	Menno Simons (1496-1561)
		Menno was born in 1496 (exact date unknown) in the little village of Witmarsum, Dutch province of Friesland.
		Menno Simons, although convinced that the Catholic Church was in need of a reformation, also realized that the Melchiorite movement, which had started well with a reformation program, had now accepted some very unchristian principles and practices.
		Menno's activities here coincide with the last years of the bishopric of Archbishop Hermann von Wied of Cologne, who had to give up his position in 1546 because he was promoting an evangelical reformation in the Catholic Church.
	www.gameo.org /encyclopedia/contents/M4636ME.html (7055 words)

	Menno Simons
		Born at Witmarsum in Friesland, Menno was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1524.
		Menno was born in the Fsisian village of Witmarsum and trained for the Roman priesthood.
		Menno served in the Netherlands (1536-43), in northwest Germany, mainly in the Rhineland (1543-46), and in Danish Holstein (1546-61).
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/mennosim.htm (912 words)

	Menno Simons
		Menno Simons, led by this conviction, made a significant contribution to the growing movement of Anabaptism, and to the Protestant Reformation.
		The contribution of Menno Simons centered primarily on the doctrine of the Church, or ecclesiology; and to that end, his writings were his strength.
		Menno Simons led a determined and courageous life in the face of persecution from the Roman Catholic Church and the other Reformers.
	www.angelfire.com /ne/onebrickshort/menno.html (2580 words)

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		Menno himself wrote in 1544 that he "could not find in all the countries a cabin or hut in which my poor wife and our little children could be put up in safety for a year or even half a year" (Complete Writings, 424).
		Menno's traveling schedule indicates that he spent some time during the years after 1546 at Lilbeck, Emden, the Lower Rhine, Leeuwarden, Danzig, etc. He still had no permanent home, although it is likely that his family did not accompany him on these trips of a shorter duration.
		Menno's faith is therefore not only Christ-centered but also church-centered: his chief concern was the achievement of the true church of Jesus Christ or the body of Christ Again and again he refers to I Cor.
	www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/people/biographies/menno.htm (6878 words)

	Menno Simons at Scroll Publishing Co.
		Menno Simons was one of the most prominent leaders of the Anabaptist movement in the Netherlands during the 16th century.
		Menno’s leadership came at the time when the Anabaptist movement was in danger of losing its original identity.
		Menno believed that the requirements for church membership are regeneration and the willingness to bear the cross of Christ.
	www.scrollpublishing.com /store/MennoSimons.html (366 words)

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		In this statement, Menno does not criticize the church for the use of violence; he criticizes the church for the use of violence in matters of faith.
		Menno displayed a belief that after the New Covenant of the New Testament was put in place, the control of military arms was given over from the church to the local government.
		Menno Simons was a courageous reformer who did much to support the idea that the church should be voluntary and not state-mandated, but he was not the pure pacifist that most Mennonite historians have painted him to be.
	www.girlalive.com /menno.html (4936 words)

	Menno Simon's Incarnational Christology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Menno, son of Simon, was born in 1496 to a Dutch peasant family who consecrated their son to the service of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Together with Hoffmann, Menno was clearly an advocate of the doctrine of the celestial flesh of Jesus.17 Simons believed that Jesus became a man in Mary, not of Mary.
		Menno Simons' overall theology was clearly in the mainstream of biblical Anabaptism, but his belief about the mode of the incarnation was out of step with biblical Anabaptism and the Chalcedonian Creed.
	www.ontruth.com /menno.html (2004 words)

	Higher Praise Greatest Preachers (Menno Simons)
		Menno Simons was the outstanding Anabaptist leader of the Low Countries during the 16th century.
		On 6 February 1554, the a Lasco group met with Menno and his followers, having invited Martin Micron of Emden to serve as their man. The Incarnation was again among the topics discussed.
		The prerequisites for church membership according to Menno are regeneration and willingness to bear the cross of Christ.
	www.higherpraise.org /preachers/simons.htm (7057 words)

	Menno Simons
		Menno Simons is the most notable leader of the "Radical" Reformation.
		Menno's followers bequeathed to the church no outstanding theology but much good devotional material and many fine hymns.
		Amazingly, Menno himself died of natural causes at age 66, badly disabled by arthritis.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Heritage/menno.htm (1010 words)

	Glimses of History: Menno Simons, Fugitive Leader
		Menno pored over his Bible, studying baptism, and concluded the Anabaptists were right; but he did not join them.
		Menno lived on the run, unable to find in all the country a hut "in which my poor wife and our little children could be put up in safety for a year or two." Two of his three children died before him.
		Menno was one of those who took refuge on the baron's lands.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/menno-simons.html (1286 words)

	COB-NET Historical Notes: Menno Simons
		Menno Simon's first doubts of papal infallibility came during his first year of priesthood when he was celebrating mass.
		Tradition holds that Simons first considered this inner thought to be the work of the devil, and he properly gave himself to confession in hope that God and time would remove the burden.
		Simons was horrified and burdened with many new questions, for the idea of a second baptism was entirely new to him.
	www.cob-net.org /text/history_menno.htm (1487 words)

	Menno Simons
		The birthplace of Menno Simons, the village of Witmarsum, is located in the province of Friesland in the northern part of the Netherlands.
		After Menno had already belonged to the Anabaptists for some time, seven or eight persons came to him who asked him to use his gifts to serve others who were "oppressed" or in need.
		Taken from (with minor editing) the booklet "Menno Simons" by, T.Alberda-van der Zijpp, published by the MERK committee of the Algemene Doopsgezinde Societiet, 1996.
	www.anabooks.fi /Menno.html (900 words)

	Menno Simons biography
		Though Menno was to become a major spokesman of ethical Christianity, his initial concern was doctrinal.
		Menno spent a quiet year in hiding, finding a sense of direction for his future work.
		Menno was not the founder of the Mennonite Church nor the most articulate spokesman of early Anabaptist theology.
	e-menno.org /simonz.htm (1076 words)

	Chasing Hats » Blog Archive » Menno Simons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Menno Simons was born in 1496 to Dutch parents.
		Menno preached salvation by grace through Jesus Christ, and was firmly grounded in the Bible.
		By the 1560s, Menno’s thoughts and writings had so influenced many of the Anabaptists that they began to be known as “Mennists” or “Mennonites.” They became recognized for peaceful, simple, righteous living.
	www.chasinghats.net /2002/12/18/menno-simons (1277 words)

	MB Herald: September 8, 2000: What happened when Menno Simons read his Bible
		Menno Simons was 28 years old when he first read the Bible.
		Menno confesses at one point, early in his time of questioning, that it was through Luther’s writings that he came to understand that the church’s traditions should not be accepted as an authority above the Bible and that human teachings should always be judged by the teachings of the Bible.
		However, according to Menno, it was his own encounter with God as he read the Bible that made all the difference as he began to ask questions and look for answers.
	old.mbherald.com /39-17/mennosimons.html (672 words)

	Menno Simons Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Menno Simons was born in the village of Witmarsum in Dutch Friesland.
		In this position, Menno preached his nonviolent type of Anabaptism in the Netherlands until 1544, by which time he had become a much pursued heretic.
		Although Menno was not a great theologian or philosopher, his writings were buttressed with quotations from Scripture and provided his followers, called Mennonites, with a good understanding of basic Anabaptist concepts.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/menno-simons (410 words)

	Historical Committee & Archives of the Mennonite Church
		Menno’s facial features on the portrait by Jan Luyken show the influence of the work of Jan van de Velde, although the central placement of the Bible in Luyken’s portrait is his own personal inspiration.
		This is probably a new portrait, because Menno is wearing a skull-cap that shows his ears and a little bit of a hair lock on his forehead.
		This picture of the interior of the so-called Menno Simons’ little church in Witmarsum, shows a reproduction of a picture by Willem Bartel van der Kooi that is now hanging in the new church building of the Doopsgezinde (Mennonite) Congregation in Witmarsum.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /MHB/mhb-portraits.html (1385 words)

	The New Birth by Menno Simons
		Menno Simons wrote The New Birth about the year 1537, and "diligently revised and enlarged and corrected" it about 1550.
		Menno fairly bristles as he denounces masses, matins, vespers, confessionals, pilgrimages, holy water, and other human inventions.
		Following the name of Menno Simons on the title page of The New Birth in the Opera of 1681 is the date 1556, which was evidently the edition incorporate therein.
	www.bluffton.edu /courses/tlc/NislyL/Hum2/..\hum2\MennoSimons.htm (5925 words)

	Menno Simons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A renewed search of the scriptures left Menno Simons believing that infant baptism is not in the Bible.
		Menno Simons rejected the Catholic church and the priesthood in January of 1536, casting his lot with the Anabaptists.
		Twenty-five years after his renunciation of Catholicism, Menno died on January 31, 1561 at Wüstenfelde, Schleswig-Holstein, and was buried in his garden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menno_Simons (916 words)

	Menno Simons, A Radical Reformer
		Menno believed that public baptism put one at the forefront of the world's hostility.
		Rightly or wrongly, the followers of Menno, later to be called Mennonites, maintained that the New Testament does not permit Christians to kill other humans under any circumstances.
		Amazingly, Menno survived persecution and died of natural causes at age 66, badly disabled by arthritis.
	www.christianity.ca /church/history/2003/06.005.html (1025 words)

	Direction: Menno Simons: A Reappraisal
		On the one hand, it is a compilation of papers presented at a conference on Menno Simons held at Eastern Mennonite College and Seminary in March of 1990.
		Walter Klaassen opens the discussion on Menno Simons by saying that Menno was definitely relevant to the Mennonites of the past and that his relevance to Mennonites of the present depends upon their willingness to listen to a man from the Middle Ages, discerning in his teaching the wisdom that transcends cultural and religious eras.
		While it was theoretically possible to Menno for the new Jerusalem to come within the framework of the Catholic church, he later realized that a new church was necessary.
	www.directionjournal.org /article/?776 (817 words)

	Menno Simons
		Menno was not satisfied with the inconsistent answers which he got from Luther, Martin Bucer and Heinrich Bullinger; he resolved to rely on Scripture alone, and from this time describes his preaching as evangelical, not sacramental.
		His first tractate (1535, first printed 1627) is directed against the "horrible and gross blasphemy of John of Leiden" -- though the genuineness of this tract has been doubted.
		For a time Menno remained aloof from both Melchior Hofmann and Obbe Philipsz.
	www.nndb.com /people/598/000094316 (705 words)

	MennoLink Books and Music: Menno Simons
		Although he usually worked in Menno's shadow, in his later years he emerged as an important leader in his own right, and author of many important and systematic theological treatises.
		Although Simons and Joris disagreed on several major issues, recent studies have show that they also shared a common early Anabaptist heritage, based on the apocalyptic writings of Melchior Hoffman.
		A reconstruction of the development of Menno Simons' Anabaptist Vision as it relates to the northern stream of Mennonites.
	www.mennolink.org /books/mennosimons.html (567 words)

	Menno on the Net. A directory of web pages about Menno Simons (c. 1496-1561) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A directory of web pages about church reformer Menno Simons (c.
		Please keep in mind that I will only link to pages that deal exclusively or mainly with Menno Simons.
		Menno on the Net is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
	www.tekstlink.com /menno.htm (87 words)

	Menno Simons Historical Library
		The primary purpose of the Menno Simons Historical Library is to collect, preserve and make available for study and research the recorded history, doctrines, life, and arts of Anabaptist and Mennonite groups.
		Search the online catalog for both the Menno Simons Historical Library and EMU Hartzler Library.
		The Menno Simons Historical Library is open Monday thru Friday 10 am - Noon and 1 - 5 pm.
	www.emu.edu /library/histlib.html (117 words)

	The Menno Simons Grant
		Central Christian School is committed to working with families to make Christian education affordable.
		Assistance in the form of a Menno Simons Grant (MSG) is available to students who qualify.
		In order to protect confidentiality, all financial information is submitted to a third-party company, Family Financial Needs Assessment (FFNA), which will evaluate each situation and provide Central with an objective analysis.
	www.centralchristian.k12.oh.us /simons.html (199 words)

	BC :: Academics :: Lectures :: Menno Simons Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BC :: Academics :: Lectures :: Menno Simons Lectures
		In 1950 the John P. and Carolina Schrag Kaufman family established the Menno Simons Lectureship Endowment.
		This fund promotes research and public lectures by recognized scholars relating to Anabaptist-Mennonite history, thought, life, and culture, both past and present.
	www.bethelks.edu /academics/lectures/menno_simons (583 words)

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