16세기 발타자르 후브마이어 뱁티즘 신학의 사회-윤리적 함의

Abstract

The sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement was initiated with the awareness of “believers baptism” as of the authentic baptism revealed in the Bible along with the denial of infant baptism. Anabaptists were characterized by their determined choices to participate in “believers baptism” sometimes resulted in martydom. The methodological hermeneutics of this paper is to interpret Anabaptist baptism as a ritual of doing social ethics because it intentionally opposed established social, political and ecclesial practice. With the methodological hermeneutics, the aims of paper are focused on studying the 16<SUP>th</SUP> Anabaptist baptismal practices historically and theologically in terms of investigating the implications of Balthasar Hubmaier’s theology of baptism. This study will examine Hubmaier’s baptismal theology in social ethics’s perspectives of non-violent baptism, suffering “Blood baptism” and discipleship’s baptism. Afterwards, it is significant for us to attend about how the 16th Anabaptist baptism could be employed as to seek the implications for twenty-first century Christians. For Christians today, the implications of baptisms could be described as having two dimensions of them as follows: 1. formation of faith community in freedom-suffering-peace. 2. the confessor baptism based on the believer freedom.