382. No Lord but God: the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation
Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.
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• M.G. Baylor (ed. and trans.), The Radical Reformation (Cambridge: 1991).
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• M.G. Baylor, The German Reformation and the Peasants’ War: a Brief History with Documents (Boston: 2012).
• P. Blickle, The Revolution of 1525 (Baltimore: 1981).
• W.D.J. Cargill Thompson, The Political Thought of Martin Luther (Brighton: 1984).
• R.N. Crossley, Luther and the Peasants’ War: Luther’s Actions and Reactions (New York: 1974).
• J. Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God: Secular Authority and the Church in the Thought of Luther and Melanchthon 1518–1559 (Leiden: 2005).
• G. Franz, Der deutsche Bauernkrieg 1525 (Berlin: 1926).
• R. Keen, Divine and Human Authority in Reformation Thought: German Theologians on Political Order 1520-1555 (Nieuwkoop: 1997).
• H. Kirchner, Luther and the Peasants’ War, trans. D. Jodock (Philadelphia: 1972).
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• J.M. Stayer, The German Peasants’ War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (Montreal: 1991).
• G. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Philadelphia: 1962).
Episodes 371 - 396: Renaissance and Reformation in Central Europe
Comments
Bias
I'm surprised you choose to take a position. I'm not interested in joining your religion, dude.
Bias
Out of curiosity, which side do you think I am on? (And of what issue?) Do you mean, that I expressed sympathy for the peasant uprising? Or because I'm somewhat critical of the Reformers for refusing to follow through on the social implications of their movement?
What a strange criticism…
What a strange criticism from Michael. I think you presented everything perfectly reasonable. Commenting on medieval social inequality is not the same as pushing a modern political/religious agenda surely. Been listening for five years, keep up the good work!
Criticism
Thanks so much! To be honest I am still curious what sort of bias I was being accused of there. I found it odd too, like, are there people who look back and say "boy those peasants they really deserved what was coming to them"? I guess we may never know what he meant!
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