teaching of the Baptists". In practice, Anabaptists have maintained a more literal obedience to the Sermon on the Mount, while Baptists generally do not require nonresistance, non-swearing of oaths, and no remarriage if the first legitimate spouse is living. Traditional Anabaptists also require a head covering for women, modest apparel, practical separation from the world, and Plain dress, which most Baptists no longer require. However, some Anabaptists and General Baptists have improved their relations and sometimes have worked together. Influence on society Common Anabaptist beliefs and practices of the 16th century continue to influence modern Christianity and Western society. Voluntary church membership and believer's baptism Freedom of religion – liberty of conscience Separation or nonconformity to the world Nonresistance, interpreted as pacifism by modernized groups Priesthood of all believers The Anabaptists were early promoters of a free church and freedom of religion. When it was introduced by the Anabaptists in the 15th and 16th centuries, religious freedom which was independent from the state was unthinkable to both clerical and governmental leaders. Religious liberty was equated with anarchy; Kropotkin traces the birth of anarchist thought in Europe to these early Anabaptist communities. According to Estep: Anabaptist characters exist in popular culture, most notably Chaplain Tappman in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, James (Jacques) in Voltaire's novella Candide, Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera (1849), and the central character in the novel Q, by the collective known as "Luther Blissett". See also Adrianists Amish Mennonite Christian anarchism Christian communism Christian socialism Clancularii Conservative Mennonites Donatists (first historical occurrence of re-baptism) Funkite List of Anabaptist churches Martyrs Mirror Melchior Rink, a central-German Anabaptist leader during the sixteenth-century Old Order Mennonite Peace churches Plain people Restorationism Shtundists Tabor College (Kansas) References Explanatory notes Citations General and cited sources Carroll, J. M. (1931). The Trail of Blood: Following the Christians Down Through the Ages, or, the History of Baptist Churches from the Time of Christ, Their Founder, to the Present Day. Lexington, KY: Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. 56 p. + fold. chart. Without ISBN . . . Knox, Ronald. Enthusiasm: a Chapter in the History of Religion, with Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1950. viii, 622 p. . . . . . Further reading ) ) Dipple, Geoffrey, Confessional Migration: Anabaptists – Mennonites, Hutterites, Baptists etc., EGO - European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2015, retrieved: March 11, 2021