WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The radicals wanted a church for the “pure”. The worshippers should break away from the majority and from the earthly city, which justified the refusal of the baptism of children. After 1535, the main leader of this movement was Dutch – Menno Simon after whom the Mennonites were named.

Detailed explanation-2: -excommunications. The noun excommunication is a formal way of describing what happens when someone gets kicked out of his or her church, for good. Excommunication is really a kind of banishment, a punishment that’s handed out by a church when one of its members breaks some important church rule.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant groups throughout Europe. The term covers radical reformers like Thomas Müntzer and Andreas Karlstadt, the Zwickau prophets, and Anabaptist groups like the Hutterites and the Mennonites.

Detailed explanation-4: -By 1794, the radical revolutionaries had literally attempted to ‘de-Christianize’ France by closing down churches, forcing priests to resign or emigrate, and inventing new republican cults to replace Christianity.