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“ Great Sermon! ” To answer your question about the "junkdrawer" term; yes that is original to me. I'm glad you found it helpful. I don't think it's fair to claim I painted with an overly broad brush when I was covering a topic of the AB's in general. There' simply not time to cover the abundant idiosyncrasies of every sect amongst them. So I gave general trends. Nor was it my job to cover just the early AB's or sum up the primary source material. I cited some of the important sources & I believe I was rather fair with them. I'm glad to hear you know of orthodox theological books from a Mennonite perspective. I never claimed those don't exist. I claimed that thorough systematic theology & accurate exegesis/hermeneutics are not a common trend among AB's as a group. The material you may know of, if it is orthodox as you claim, does not overwhelm the evidence to the contrary. IOW, it is likely the exception to the rule.
There is no getting around the fact that the Particular Baptists sought to & succeeded in distancing themselves from being identified with the AB's. The PB's have a reformed & Puritan heritage. That is overwhelmingly the source of their influence. That is proven even more by their usage of the Westminster Standards & Savoy Declaration in writing the 2nd London Baptist Confession.
“ Response to Jeremy ” The claim that the 1644 confession was influenced by Simon's was originally made by Glen Stassen in a few articles. Dr. Renihan responded quite thoroughly in an award winning article in the American Baptist Quarterly in an article titled "An Examination of the Possible Influence of Menno Simons' Foundation Book upon the Particular Baptist Confession of 1644." You can find it in vol. 15 No.3 Sept 1996 edition. His refutation of Stassen's claims stand.
Jeremy, I can understand your perspective, but it does not undermine the thrust of my argument. One of my points was the clear idiosyncratic nature of many Anabaptist groups, as well as the clear mixture of both orthodoxy & heresy. Your good experience may very well have been just that. Parts of mine were good as well. But even the Mennonites have displayed this same mixture in their own sects. Some of them likewise display even more "cult-like" behavior than what I personally experienced. The Amish & Hutterites display this as well. It is common, regardless of what you have experienced. It may or may not have been an identifiable characteristic among the early Anabaptists that you have read, but it has certain become a characteristic over time.
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