Balthasar Hubmaier on V.e.I.

I found this book today at a sale (for 70% off retail by the way :) and hope to start incorporating the life and writings of the reformer who coined the phrase this blog gets it's name from.

In the preface the editors write:

"The choice of the title for tis book--Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism--does not intend to suggest that Hubmaier was the only theologian, or the normative theologian, of the Anabaptist movement...[but his] place in the first generation of the broad [Anabaptist] movement is unique. He is the only figure of his generation with university credentials, the only one with extensive public activity before joining the Reformation, the most skilled in popular expository writing" (13).

I hope you enjoy learning about this great, though oft neglected, reformer of the 16th century who some think would've been appreciated on the level of Luther and Calvin had he not been martyred.

Who was he, and why was he martyred? We'll look first at his biography.