This book is a collection of writings by early Reformation radicals that illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking. The texts are drawn from the period 1521-1527, centering on the German Peasants' War of 1524-1526. The thinkers represented--Muntzer, Karlstadt, Grebel, Hut, Denck, and others--differed on important theological issues, yet all rejected the magisterial Reformation as serving the interests of society's elites. They advocated a strategy of Reformation from below, a sweeping transformation of society to the benefit of the lay commoner and the local community. With the start of the Peasants' War, radicals divided over the issue of the legitimacy of force. This division shaped the ways in which they confronted the failure of the Peasants' War and the new strategies for survival developed in its aftermath. Appended to the texts are a number of political programs of the Peasants' War. These documents illustrate ways in which the radicals contributed to the uprising, and how the war itself led to greater clarity in the political theory of the radical Reformation.
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"We have here a very useful reader on the radical wing of the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century....After a compact but informed introduction, a six-page chronology, and a concise bibliographical note, Professor Baylor presents in fresh translation thirteen key documents illustrating core concerns of the radicals." Donald F. Durnbaugh, Utopian Studies
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Good, balanced text of the radical reformers,
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This review is from: The Radical Reformation (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (Paperback)
This book is an excellent view of the various views of the Radical Reformers. It presents the essential writings of the reformers' views on the issues most essential to protestants. A must for anyone seeking knowledge of Church history--particularly anabaptist history.
Difficult areas of the text are footnoted, providing background information, translation issues, and the like. Very well done, and a delightful read. This book will cause you to understand where your faith has come from, developmentally speaking.
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This book brings together an excellent collection of reformers writings from the period of religious reformation where politics and religion were synonymous with each other. The topics are wide ranging from Muntzer to those who organized the peasants' revolt. Baylor provides a good introduction for each and in parts where the text are difficult adequate foot noting is provided. If you are looking for a good start to the primary sources of the Reformation you cannot do any better. This is a great classic also for those who are studying the early methods of political thought before it was easily defined liberalism under Hobbes and Locke.
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I, Thomas Muntzer, born in Stolberg and residing in Prague, the city of the precious and holy fighter Jan Hus, think that the loud and moving trumpets [that once sounded in this city] were filled with the praise of the holy spirit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrived faith, communal reformation, common peasantry, ravaging wolves, popular reformation, magisterial reformers, quarter lords, territorial constitution, territorial lords, imperial mandate, true baptism, rebellious peasants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, Lord's Supper, Old Testament, Doctor Liar, New Testament, Conrad Grebel, Holy Roman Empire, Acts of the Apostles, Andreas Karlstadt, Duke John, Felix Manz, Andreas Castelberger, Luther's Letter, Bartel Bach, Hans Hut, Julius Caesar, Therefore Christ New!
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I, Thomas Muntzer, born in Stolberg and residing in Prague, the city of the precious and holy fighter Jan Hus, think that the loud and moving trumpets [that once sounded in this city] were filled with the praise of the holy spirit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrived faith, communal reformation, common peasantry, ravaging wolves, popular reformation, magisterial reformers, quarter lords, territorial constitution, territorial lords, imperial mandate, true baptism, rebellious peasants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, Lord's Supper, Old Testament, Doctor Liar, New Testament, Conrad Grebel, Holy Roman Empire, Acts of the Apostles, Andreas Karlstadt, Duke John, Felix Manz, Andreas Castelberger, Luther's Letter, Bartel Bach, Hans Hut, Julius Caesar, Therefore Christ New!
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