Download or read book The Development of Dutch Anabaptist Thought and Practice from 1539-1564 written by William Echard Keeney and published by Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf. This book was released on 1968 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Menno Simons and Dirk Philips have been used as the basic materials for this study, the major aim of which is to discern the more or less normative position of the Mennonites or later Doopsgezinden during the first generation, with Menno Simons and Dirk Philips as their major spokesmen.