There has been an increase of blogging recently regarding how great and wonderful the Anabaptists were/are and how much we modern day Southern Baptists owe to the so called “radical reformers.” Often the Anabaptist “hoorahs” are joined with condemnatory remarks about the evil and oppressive magisterial Calvinist reformers.
At the recent Anabaptism & Contemporary Baptists Conference at SWBTS, the rhetoric rose to the point of SWBTS President Paige Patterson saying:
