Major work

•          Verantwortung (reply to Schwenckfeld)

Importance

•          Major spokesman of South German Anabaptism from 1530-56

•          Tried to synthesize theologically and bring together federatively different Anabaptist groups

•          Called for an ecumenically separatist ecclesiology and discipline

•          Opposed infant baptism

•          Known for views on the incarnation–stressed Christ’s physical, historical humanity

•          Opposed Hoffman’s apocalypticism