History 2P91: The Radical Reformation

Some reformers thought that Luther and Zwingli did not go far enough in their reform efforts.  These men sought to fulfil the implications of early Protestant theology and doctrine by revolutionizing European Christianity, and with it key aspects of European Society.  But for both reformers and for traditionalists, much of this 'radical' theology went too far, placing those who followed it outside the bounds of proper Christianity.  Even after the debacle of the Peasants' War, such radical theologians sought ways to fully develop and exploit the implications of reformation beliefs.

Additional Reading Lists

• Michael G. Baylor ed., The Radical Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
• A.J. Beachy, The concept of grace in the radical reformation (Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1977).
• Peter Blickle, The Revolution of 1525 (London: , 1981).
• Claus-Peter Clasen, Anabaptism: a social history (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972).
• C. P. Clasen, Anabaptism: A Social History, 1525-1618 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972).
• Henry J. Cohn, 'Anticlericalism in the German Peasants' War,' Past & Present no.83 (1979): 3-31.
• K. Depperman, 'The Anabaptists and the state churches', in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kaspar von Greyerz (London: , 1984), .
• Hans-Jürgen Goertz, The Anabaptists (London: , 1996).
• Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Thomas Müntzer: Apocalyptic Mystic and Revolutionary (Edinburgh: , 1993).
• W. Klaasen, Living at the End of the Ages: Apocalyptic Expectations in the Radical Reformation (Lanham, MD: , 1992).
• R. E. McLaughlin, Caspar Schwenckfeld, Reluctant Radical: His Life to 1540 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
• Werner O. Packull, Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation (: , ).
• Werner O. Packull, 'In search of the "Common Man" in early German Anabaptist ideology,' Sixteenth Century Journal 17 (1986): 51-65.
• Werner O. Packull, 'The beginning of Anabaptism in southern Tyrol,' Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 717-726.
• P. Peachey, 'Marxist Historiography of the Radical Reformation: Causality or Covariation?,' Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 1 (1970): 1-16.
• H. W. Pipkin & John H. Yoder ed., Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1989).
• H. W. Pipkin, 'The Baptismal Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier,' Mennonite Quarterly Review 65 no.1 (1991): 34-53.
• Ronald Po-Chia Hsia, 'Münster and the Anabaptists', in The German People and the Reformation, ed. Idem (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), .
• J. D. Roth & James M. Stayer, A companion to Anabaptism and spiritualism, 1521-1700 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007).
• Thomas Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation (London: , 1989).
• Robert W. Scribner, 'Practical Utopias: pre-modern communism and the Reformation,' Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1994): 743-774.
• Robert W. Scribner & G. Benecke, The German Peasant War: New Viewpoints (London: , 1979).
• C. A. Snyder, Anabaptist History and Theology (Kitchener, On.: , 1995).
• C. A. Snyder, 'The Schleitheim Articles in the light of the revolution of the common man: continuation or departure?,' Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985): 419-430.
• J. Stalnaker, 'Anabaptism, Martin Bucer, and the shaping of the Hessian Protestant church,' Journal of Modern History (): .
• James M. Stayer, Anabaptists and the Sword (Lawrence, KA: , 1976).
• James M. Stayer, 'The Anabaptists and the sects', in The New Cambridge Modern History, ed. G.R. Elton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), .
• James M. Stayer & Werner O. Packull, The Anabaptists and Thomas Müntzer (Waterloo, On: , 1980).
• James M. Stayer, The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (London: , 1994).
• James M. Stayer, 'The Radical Reformation', in Handbook of European History, ed. Thomas A. Brady, Heiko A. Oberman and James D. Tracy (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), .
• G. K. Waite, David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1990).
• G. H. Williams, 'Radical Reformation', in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. H. Hillerbrand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), .
• G. H. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Kirksville, Missouri: , 1992).
• Samme Zijlstra, 'Menno Simons and David Joris,' Mennonite Quarterly Review 62 no.3 (1988): 249-256.

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