A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Knipperdolings

by Hannah Adams

KNIPPERDOLINGS, a denomination in the sixteenth century, derived from Bertrand Knipperdoling, who taught a literal millenium; denied justification by faith, original sin, and infant baptism; maintained that every Christian has authority to preach and administer the sacraments; that all things ought to be in common, &c.^[1]

Original footnotes

1. Chevrea's Hist. of the World, vol. iii. p. 437.