Balthasar Hubmaier
“Die warhet ist untödlich.”
This is the phrase that often ended the writings of Balthasar Hubmaier. Hubmaier was a German Anabaptist leader who was extremely popular in the towns in which he preached. He was the only Anabaptist leader who was schooled in scholastic theology and received his doctorate. He was burned at the stake in Vienna on March 10, 1528 as a heretic.
The phrase which became his motto translated is, “Truth is Unkillable!” Hubmaier is perhaps my favorite Anabaptist leader and theologian so my upcoming posts on Anabaptism will focus on him.