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The Radical Reformation refers to all forms of Protestantism in the Reformation era whose protagonists rejected both the Roman Catholic Church and the magisterial Protestant churches. Although radical Protestants were small in number, there were many more radical Protestant groups than magisterial Protestant traditions. Especially after the German Peasants’ War (1524-26) and the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (1534-35), magisterial Protestant and Catholic authorities alike feared and suppressed many radical Protestant groups. The reintegration of Anabaptists, politically revolutionary Protestants, spiritualists, and rationalists from the early German Reformation of the 1520s through the resurgence of radical Protestantism in the English Revolution of the 1640s-50s yields a different and more accurate view of the Reformation as a whole. The uncoupling of political control from Lutheran or Reformed confessional orthodoxy starting in the seventeenth century and expanding in the modern era allowed the true essence of the Reformation itself to become clear—in the open-ended pluralism that marked the Radical Reformation and that stemmed directly from Luther’s principle of sola scriptura itself. |
