Frases de Thomas Müntzer

Thomas Müntzer fue un predicador alemán partidario de la Reforma, defensor del anabaptismo y caudillo revolucionario de los campesinos . Se propuso lograr el advenimiento del Reino de Dios impulsando una vigorosa reforma social. Contemporáneo de Lutero e inicialmente su seguidor, mantuvo con él una extremada polémica política y teológica. Wikipedia  

✵ 1489 – 27. mayo 1525
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Thomas Müntzer: Frases en inglés

“The people will be free and God alone will be their Lord.”

Letter to the Princes as cited in The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods, p. 109 https://books.google.com/books?id=MeFSqubf6VAC&pg=PA107

“The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property— the fish in the water, the bird in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal." They oppress everyone, the poor peasant, the craftsman are skinned and scraped.”

Letter to the Princes, as cited in Transforming Faith Communities: A Comparative Study of Radical Christianity, p. 173 http://books.google.com/books?id=6FRJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173


(de) Sieh zu, die Grundsuppe des Wuchers, der Dieberei und Räuberei sein unser Herrn und Fürsten, nehmen alle Kreaturen zum Eigentum: die Fisch im Wasser, die Vögel in der Luft, das Gewächs auf Erden muß alles ihr sein (Jes. 5). Darüber lassen sie dann Gottes Gebot ausgehen unter die Armen und sprechen: »Gott hat geboten: Du sollst nicht stehlen.

“God speaks only in the suffering of creatures, a suffering that the hearts of the unbelievers do not have because they become more and more hardened.”

"A Protest about the Condition of the Bohemians," p. 5
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“The fear of God at the beginning of faith is an unbearable thing to human nature.”

"Exposure of False Faith" (1524), in Revelation and Revolution: Basic Writings of Thomas Müntzer (1993), p. 117
Exposure of False Faith (1524)
Original: (de) Es ist der Natur ein unleidlichs Werk, die Furcht Gottes zum Anfang des Glaubens zu machen.