By February 1527, when a small group of Christian radicals gathered in the village of Schleitheim in the Swiss-German borderlands, authorities whose attention had been focused on the political challenges of the Peasants Revolution of 1525 were beginning to make progress tracking down the religious figures whose organizing and preaching had inspired religious-political separatism and … More Michael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527) 

The movements for reform of the church in early 16th-century Europe, to the extent that they produced institutional divisions and sparked new ecclesial identification, brought on a kind of ecclesiological crisis for many Christians. At the heart of concern, for many, was the question: What is the (true) Church? The Nicene Creed (as revised in … More Registers of the Consistory of Geneva, 1542