What's the difference between anabaptist and mennonite?

Anabaptist


Definition:

  • (n.) A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
  • (2) The Mennonites are the most receptive Anabaptist group to outside socioeconomic influences and provide a demographic contrast to the more conservative Amish and Hutterites.
  • (3) His best known study, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957), demonstrated convincingly that the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Marxism and nazism, shared a "common stock of European social mythology" with apocalyptic medieval movements such as the Flagellants and the Anabaptists.
  • (4) The Anabaptist Amish, Hutterite and Mennonite peoples trace their origins to the Reformation.
  • (5) The Hutterites are an Anabaptist population, highly inbred, with large family sizes and extensively documented pedigrees.

Mennonite


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We investigated a large Old Colony (Chortitza) Mennonite kindred with branches across Canada.
  • (2) This mutation has previously been found in two Canadian patients who are members of ostensibly unrelated Mennonite families.
  • (3) Logistic regression analysis was used to develop models for the diagnosis of and screening for HOPS carriers in the high-risk population of Manitoba Mennonites.
  • (4) In addition in our Mennonite population, a nonrandom association exists between the polymorphic ALPL alleles and HOPS.
  • (5) Demographic data collected during a study of aging in Mennonite population samples from Goessel and Meridian, Kansas, 1980, and Henderson, Nebraska, 1981, formed the basis of a cohort analysis in order to assess fertility change over time.
  • (6) Prenatal RFLP studies in an informative Mennonite family correctly predicted an unaffected fetus following chorionic villus sampling at 12 wk gestation.
  • (7) We postulate that this extensive German-Mennonite family has a heritable defect in the immune response to Epstein-Barr virus making its members at excessive risk for a number of different malignancies.
  • (8) We present clinical findings in infants from three kindreds (two Hutterite and one Mennonite) with an apparently unique, fatal disorder.
  • (9) No correction of the high SCE characteristic of BS cells was seen in hybrid lines derived from patients of Ashkenazi Jewish, French-Canadian, Mennonite, or Japanese extraction.
  • (10) The resulting fertility is nearly as high as that of the Hutterites, although the Mennonites lack the communal economic system of the latter.
  • (11) These family studies provide additional evidence that Mennonite MSUD is caused by a missense mutation of the E1 alpha gene of BCKDH
  • (12) These Mennonite populations, although reproductively isolated at the turn of this century, are presently entering the mainstream of US rural culture.
  • (13) During the course of studies to characterize mutations of the CYP17 gene that cause the 17 alpha-hydroxylase-deficient form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia we have discovered two ostensibly unrelated Mennonite families in which affected individuals are homozygous for the same mutation.
  • (14) We studied a large Mennonite kindred affected by chronic motor tics (CMTs) and vocal tics in a probable autosomal dominant pattern.
  • (15) The patterns of migration and the genetic disorders occurring among North American Mennonites are reviewed, and inherited conditions recently recognized in a religious and genetic isolate, the Old Colony (Chortitza) Mennonites, are described.
  • (16) Most Mennonites in Mexico migrated from Canada in the 1920s and the largest single settlement, called the Manitoba Colony, is 1 of 4 in the state of Chihuahua.
  • (17) The identification of the MSUD mutation in the Philadelphia Mennonites will facilitate diagnosis and carrier detection for this population.
  • (18) A nurse from the US worked as a community health nurse with the Mennonite Central Committee in East Africa from 1981-1983.
  • (19) Based on this gene structure, exon 9 contains the Tyr393----Asn mutation previously identified in the E1 alpha subunit of Mennonite and other maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) patients.
  • (20) Here we consider these purported relationships in a midwestern Mennonite population (n = 890) by correlating individual biochemical heterozygosity and deviation from the mean for anthropometric traits.

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