ANABAPTIST

Key leaders were Conrad Grebel , Felix Manz, Georg Blaurock, Ludwig Hätzer, and Balthasar Hübmaier . Distinctive characteristics: they repudiated church-state ties and infant baptism; Church was a voluntary association of committed believers; practiced strict church discipline; pacifists; some practiced community of goods; had religious toleration for all; maintained simplicity of dress and lifestyle; some had mystical tendencies. These distinctives were also held by the Hutterites , Schwenkfelders, Mennonites , and Amish.