Luther's Call to Empower the Laity

The fires of peasant rebellion were kindled by a number of radical itinerant preachers, some former clergy like Luther. Thomas Munster spent the years before 1525 agitating crowds towards a violent confrontation with godless secular authority in town after town. Rather than wait for a spurious reward in the hereafter, these preachers insisted that the common peasants of Germany possessed the power to find their reward here and now.

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