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	Peter Chelcicky
		Chelcicky called the Pope and the emperor (the church and the state) "whales who have torn the net of true faith", because they established the church as the head of a secular empire.
		Chelcicky used the parable of the wheat and the tares² (Matthew 13:24-30) to show that both the sinners and the saints should be allowed to live together until the harvest.
		Chelcicky was a communist in the original Christian sense.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/p/pe/peter_chelcicky.html (847 words)

	Peter Chelcicky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chelcicky called the (The head of the Roman Catholic Church) Pope and the emperor (the church and the state) "whales who have torn the net of true faith", because they established the church as the head of a secular empire.
		Chelcicky was a (A socialist who advocates communism) communist in the original Christian sense.
		In it, Chelcicky argued that the (additional info and facts about Taborites) Taborites had participated in violence through the devil's deceit and the lust for the things of the world.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Peter_Chelcicky.htm (969 words)

	PETER PAYNE - LoveToKnow Article on PETER PAYNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Payne had to leave his pastorate at Saas, and took refuge with Peter Chelcicky, the Bohemian author.
		Payne was also known as Clerk at Oxford, as Peter English in Bohemia, and as Freyng, after his French father, and Hough from his birth place.
		This edition was collated (1890) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of Italian novelle in Elizabethan drama.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PAYNE_PETER.htm (824 words)

	Kautsky: Communism in Central Europe (Chap.3)
		Chelcicky was a communist in the primitive Christian sense.
		After the fall of Tabor the Chelcicky Brethren became the most important of all the sects existing in Bohemia, which were in part composed of the scattered Taboristic elements.
		Among the partisans of Peter Chelcicky the most prominent was Brother Gregory, who, although a nobleman, was so impoverished that he was forced to support himself as a journeyman tailor.
	www.marxists.org /archive/kautsky/1897/europe/ch03.htm (3297 words)

	Chaucer, Wyclif, Hus, and Chelcicky by Sanderson Beck
		Chelcicky noted that the Taborites abolished their common treasury and equal distribution of wealth after they adopted violence, and then they retracted their democratic methods and reimposed rents and dues on the peasants.
		Chelcicky was concerned about anarchy in which the wicked try to reign over the honest and take the fruits of others' labor, but still he did not believe that a Christian should rule as a king.
		Chelcicky found that the teaching of the Christ does not coerce in any way nor does it recommend any kind of vengeance against the wicked; but they should be improved only through brotherly goodwill so that they can be led to penitence.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ11-Chaucer,Wyclif.html (5074 words)

	Erasmus, Anabaptists, and Mennonites by Sanderson Beck
		Chelcicky taught that those who think they can arm themselves with weapons to destroy the devil are deluded, because when they use their war machines to smash the walls and destroy the evil people, the devil goes out from those walls and into them, dwelling in their cruel hearts.
		Chelcicky opposed all warfare, even that which claimed to be defensive, because he believed in the example of Jesus and the gospel of peace.
		Chelcicky wrote, "The executioner who kills is as much a wrong-doer as the criminal who is killed."2 He suggested that Christians could expel evil ones from their company.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ12-Erasmus,Anabaptists.html (8167 words)

	Hus Part II
		Amid the violence, religious hatred, anarchy, and killing of the early Hussite era, a simple, self-taught squire, Peter Chelcicky (1390-1460)had founded a new Hussite religious community in Southern Bohemia, the Unitas Fratrum or Unity of Brethren.
		Chelcicky taught that Christians should reject the use of force.
		He taught that the understanding of Scripture is central, that each Christian should follow God's precepts "as his own intellect understands them." The Brethren put great emphasis on education, teaching all members of their community, both men and women, to read.
	www.hedgehog-review.com /ttt/HusII.php (1898 words)

	PAYNTER (OR PAINTER), WILLIAM - LoveToKnow Article on PAYNTER (OR PAINTER), WILLIAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before going to Cambridge he had published some verses in Leigh Hunt's Journal, and while still an undergraduate put forth a volume of Stories from Boccaccio in 1852, and in 1853 a volume of Poems.
		Based on this is the volume, Mementos of Edward Payson (New York, 1873), by the Rev. E.
		PAZMANY, PETER (15701637), Hungarian cardinal and statesman, was born at Nagyvhrad on the 4th of October 1570, and educated at Nagyvrad and Kolozsvhr, at which latter place he quitted the Calvinist confession for the Roman communion (1583).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PAYNTER_OR_PAINTER_WILLIAM.htm (2276 words)

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		Though the majority opinion is that Anabaptists began with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century, certain people and groups may still legitimately be considered their forerunners.
		Peter Chelcicky, 15th century Bohemian Reformer, taught most of the beliefs considered integral to Anabaptist theology.
		Religious liberty was equated with anarchy and Peter Kropotkin traces the birth of anarchist thought in Europe to these early Anabaptist communities.
	www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Anabaptist (3892 words)

	Czech and Slovak History: An Annotated Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Cook, Wlliam R. "Peter Payne, Theologian and Diplomat of the Hussite Revolution." PhD diss, Cornell University, 1971.
		"Peter Chelcicky: The Spiritual Father of the Unitas Fratrum." 1943.
		Petr Chelcicky: A Radical Separatist in Hussite Bohemia.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/cash/cash6.html (9046 words)

	Between Hus and Herrnhut - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		From the start, the Unity of the Brethren, as they became known, had contacts with the Waldensians, a communal group that preserved the teachings of Peter Waldo from the twelfth century, promoting equality of believers and opposing ecclesiastical hierarchy.
		Significant also for the Unity’s founding was the thought of Peter Chelcicky, who condemned the use of force in matters of faith and the participation of Christians in political power struggles, especially in war.
		Chelcicky dared to call the Pope and the emperor “whales who have torn the net of true faith,” since they had established the Church as the head of a secular empire.
	www.ctlibrary.com /3445 (436 words)

	Brethren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Schwarzenau Brethren groups originated in 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany, in the Palatinate.
		The Mennonites often use the terminology Brethren or Mennonite Brethren.
		The Moravian Brethren (also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratum and Bohemian Brethren) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologist Peter Chelcicky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brethren (799 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Early Modern: Lecture Eleven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There was Rome with the tombs of Peter and Paul among others.
		The most notable early leader among them was Peter Chelcicky.
		In 1458, Rokyzana's nephew, Gregory, led a group expelled from Prague by the hostilities of Utraquists to migrate with King George's blessing to his estate at Kunwald in the secluded forests of eastern Bohemia.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34633e11.html (3281 words)

	The Anabaptist Vision
		Christ, the Prince of Peace, has established His Kingdom, that is, His Church, and has purchased it by His blood.
		It should also be remembered that they held this principle in a day when both Catholic and Protestant churches not only endorsed war as an instrument of state policy, but employed it in religious conflicts.
		It is true, of course, that occasional earlier prophets, like Peter Chelcicky, had advocated similar views, but they left no continuing practice of the principle behind them.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /library/anabaptistvision/anabaptistvision.html (6245 words)

	PAYNE, PETER (c. 138o-1455) - Online Information article about PAYNE, PETER (c. 138o-1455)
		Two years later he was captured and imprisoned at Gutenstein, but was ransomed by his Taborite See also:
		Payne was also known as Clerk at Oxford, as Peter English in Bohemia, and as Freyng, after his See also:
		BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PAYNE_PETER_c_138o_1455_.html (650 words)

	Protest and renewal: Reformers before the Reformation - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		For the next 300 years they were to be on the run, at times persecuted severely.
		This was the Unitas Fratrum ('Unity of Brothers'), commonly known as the Czech Brethren.
		The founder of this movement was the Bohemian squire Peter Chelcicky, who died in about 1460.
	www.ctlibrary.com /4542 (3567 words)

	CBF presenters: absolute truth claims -- break down; imperil religious liberty - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Garrett counters that the Christians' mandate to present the Gospel to all human beings is coupled with a recognition that genuine faith is voluntary, not coerced, and indeed is accomplished through God's own agency (John 6:44).
		"The entire modern movement for religious freedom and against persecution -- from Peter Chelcicky to Balthasar Hubmaier to Thomas Helwys to Roger Williams and beyond -- came out of the matrix of Christian faith and discipleship," Garrett also said in the written statement.
		According to a statement released by CBF officials: "The opinions and views presented in General Assembly ministry workshops are those of the workshop presenters and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of, or endorsement by, the Fellowship or its members.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=16217 (1575 words)

	Premysl Pitter - A short life story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finally he managed to transfer to the medical corps.
		After the war he started reading writings by Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Peter of Chelcicky, who in the 1500s influenced the founding of the Bohemian Brethren.
		In 1924, Pitter founded a journal called Sbratreni (Czech for "Brotherhood") to spread these ideas of peace and brotherhood.
	www.peacemakersguide.org /articles/peacemakers/Premysl-Pitter.htm (638 words)

	The Anabaptist Vistion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And baptism, the greatest of Christian symbols, was accordingly to be for them the "covenant of a good conscience toward God" (1 Peter 3:21),[28] the pledge of a complete commitment to obey Christ, and not primarily the symbol of a past experience.
		The Anabaptists had faith, indeed, but they used it to produce a life.
		57 (Peter Riedemann), Rechenschaft unserer Religion, Lehre sod Glaubens, von den Bruedern die Man die Hutterischen nennt (Rerne, Indiana, 1902), 105.
	www.bibleviews.com /anabaptist-vision.html (7858 words)

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