Theology
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Zwickau Prophets was their spiritualism, which was that direct revelations from the Holy Spirit, not Scripture, were their authority in theological matters. Another highly distinctive feature was their opposition to pedobaptism (Infant Baptism). Despite their rejection of pedobaptism, the Zwickau Prophets do not seem to have departed from mere theory to have taken the turn, which would mark Anabaptism, to practicing adult baptism of believers.
The Zwickau Prophets also held to imminent apocalypticism, which led them to believe that the end of days would come soon. They also possibly sought a believers church, which would be separate from the State churches of Protestantism and Catholicism.
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