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Why did the Mennonites and Amish use the first names of their founders, as opposed to the Lutherans and Calvinists, who used the last? Was it to further separate themselves and reenforce this desire that was later referred to as "Radical Reformation?"

by /u/WanderingKing in /r/AskHistorians

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