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Radical Reformation

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ISBN-10: 0521379482

ISBN-13: 9780521379489

Edition: 1991

Authors: Michael G. Baylor, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/31/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Chronology 1521+1528
Bibliographical note
Thomas Mnntzer, The Prague Protest
Thomas Mnntzer, Sermon to the Princes (or An Exposition of the Second Chapter of Daniel)
Andreas Karlstadt, Letter from the Community of Orlamnnde to the People of Allstedt
Conrad Grebel, Letter to Thomas Mnnzter
Andreas Karlstadt, Whether One Should Proceed Slowly
Thomas Mnntzer, A Highly Provoked Defense
Felix Manz, Protest and Defense
Anonymous, To the Assembly of the Common Peasantry
Hans Denck, On the Law of God
Hans Hut, On the Mystery of Baptism
Michael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles
Balthasar Hubmaier, On the Sword
Han Hergot, On the New Transformation of the Christian Life
Appendices: Programs of the Peasants' War
The Eleven Muhlhausen Articles
The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants
The Memmingen Federal Constitution
The Document of Articles of the Black Forest Peasants
The Forty-six Frankfurt Articles
Michael Gaismair+s Territorial Constitution for Tyrol
Biographical notes
Notes to the texts