Thomas Müntzer
Author: Tom Scott
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780312026790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Tom Scott
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780312026790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Münzer
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780934223164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this work is on the basic writings of radical reformer and religious revolutionary Thomas Muntzer (before 1490-1525). Also included are materials written just before Muntzer's execution -- his confession, retraction, and last letter.
Author: Hans-Jürgen Goertz
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA masterly new biography of Thomas Muntzer by a leading historian of the revolutionary Reformation movements. Controversial and complex, without an understanding of Thomas Muntzer it is impossible to gain a full understanding of the Reformation. Hitherto Muntzer has been imperfectly understood. He has often been characterized simply as an extremist: some have seen him as a theologian steeped in mystic piety, others as a rabid apocalyptic, or a relentless antagonist of Martin Luther, or an intrepid revolutionary. He has been deprecated as a restless fanatic and utopian; and just as often honoured as a selfless fighter for truth and justice. Professor Goertz has found the key to understanding the many controversial aspects of Muntzer's life in Muntzer's extraordinary ability to relate social conflicts with theological thinking, in a world where changing medieval traditions took on profound spiritual dimensions, created new social conflicts, and ultimately revolutionized the social and spiritual lives of ordinary people. Goertz shows how Muntzer was inseparably apocalyptic mystic and revolutionary.
Author: Thomas Münzer
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael G. Baylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-10-31
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521379489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1991 collection of writings by early Reformation radicals illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking.
Author: Tom Scott
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-09-25
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 134920224X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Drummond
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2024-02-20
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1839768940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story–I couldn’t put it down." –Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet On the 500th anniversary of the German Peasant Wars, a brilliant portrait of Thomas Munzter: radical millenarian preacher, revolutionary and iconoclast ‘The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.’ These were the words of Thomas Müntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1525. Ranged against him were the might of the princes of the German Nation. How did Müntzer, the son of a coin maker from central Germany, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared revolutionaries in early modern Europe? In this brilliant work of historical excavation, Andrew Drummond charts the life and times of the man Martin Luther denounced as a ‘Ravening Wolf’ and ‘False Prophet’. Drummond shows us Müntzer as a human being. Far from the bloodthirsty devil of legend, he was a man of considerable learning and principle, deeply sympathetic to the misery of the peasantry and the poor. In his short life – he was beheaded at thirty-five – Müntzer promised to fundamentally upend German society. Seeking to save Müntzer from the condescension of history, Drummond guides us through the religious and political disputes of the Reformation, placing his life and thought in the context of those turbulent years. The result is a portrait of an often contradictory but always radical figure, one who continues to inspire movements of the poor across the globe.
Author: Éric Vuillard
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1635420091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.
Author: James M. Stayer
Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa ; Toronto : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of Anabaptist studies published over the last forty years.
Author: Jennifer Powell McNutt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-11-06
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0191067458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was vital and complex. Drawing on new technologies such as movable type, this period saw extraordinary energy and enterprise put into the translation, interpretation, and publication of Christianity's sacred text. As a result, an increasingly broad section of the population, from scholars and clergy to laity and children, came to be involved in the reception of the Bible and its position in early modern religious expression. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation provides readers with a deeper understanding of the expansive history of the Bible as it was shaped, shared, and received across Christian traditions. Chapters explore the biblical canon, translation and print, the development of Reformation hermeneutics, the history of Bible commentators, and exegesis relating to key texts and theological themes of Reformation writing and discourse. Engaging the subject broadly, intricately, and robustly, the expertise of over fifty leading experts illuminates the early modern Bible's composition and position as scripture and, from the Renaissance era on, as a printed book. By including the contributions of radical reformers, Catholics, and women scholars, the Handbook presents a deep and wide-ranging account of the importance of the Bible's reach and authority among all western Christians.