Successio Anabaptistica, Dat is Babel der Wederdopers

Successio Anabaptistka, Dat is Babel der Wederdopers, is the title of a book published by V. P. in Cologne, 1603; there was a second unaltered edition at Cologne, 1612. This book is very rare; of the first edition only three copies are extant, and four of the second. There was a copy of the second edition in the Danzig Mennonite library; the [[Amsterdam Mennonite Library (Bibliotheek en Archief van de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam)|Amsterdam Mennonite library]]has a copy of both editions. A reprint with introduction was published by Samuel Cramer in <em>Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica</em> VII(The Hague, 1910). Besides the Beginsel en voortganck der geschillen written some years later, this book is the only account of 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist history by a comtemporary author who deals especially with various schisms among the Dutch Mennonites; it contains much information about church leaders found in no other source; therefore the book, since it is on the whole very reliable, is a valuable source, though it was written by an opponent of the Mennonites. The author was probably Simon Walraven, who married a granddaughter of Joost Buyck, burgomaster of Amsterdam, and was later a Roman Catholic priest at Kevendonk near Goch, Germany.

The motive for writing and publishing this book was a publication by the Mennonite author Jacob Pietersz van der Meulen, who wrote Successio Apostolica, Dat is Naecominghe ofte Naetredinghe der Apostelen (Alkmaar, 1600) which attacked the Catholic Church, explaining that a true spiritual apostolic succession is found not among the Catholics but among the Mennonites. Then Walraven tried to show that among the Mennonites there was no apostolic succession but merely a "Babel of confusion."

Bibliography

Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica, 10 vols. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914

Vos, Karel. Menno Simons, 1496-1561, zijn leven en werken en zijne reformatorische denkbeelden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1914.

Author(s)	Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published	1959

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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 652. All rights reserved.

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