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	Zwickau Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Zwickau is a town of Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony (Sachsen), situated in a pleasant valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge, on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 41 m.
		Among the nine churches, the fine Gothic church of St Mary (1451-1536 and restored 1885-1891), with a spire 285 ft. high and a bell weighing 51 tons, is remarkable.
		Zwickau is of Slavonic origin, and is mentioned in 1118 as a trading place.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/z/zw/zwickau.html (444 words)

	Zwickau Prophets
		Zwickau Prophets, the name given to three men, Nicholas Storch, Thomas Drechsel, and Marcus (Thomae) StÃ¼bner, who came to Wittenberg from Zwickau, Saxony (Germany), about Christmas time in 1521, professing a special message through their study of the Scriptures and through direct revelation from God through the Holy Spirit.
		The Zwickau prophets came with this spirit to Wittenberg and for a time exerted substantial influence even on Melanchthon and Amsdorf.
		No church nor movement was established by the Zwickau prophets, but as early as 1530 the theory arose, without any historical foundation to be sure, that Anabaptism was founded by Nicholas Storch in Zwickau.
	www.gameo.org /encyclopedia/contents/Z953.html (865 words)

	Zwickau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zwickau is bounded by Mülsen, Reinsdorf, Wilkau-Haßlau, Hirschfeld (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Kirchberg), Lichtentanne, Werdau, Neukirchen, Crimmitschau and Dennheritz (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Crimmitschau) along with the districts of Chemnitzer Land with the city of Glauchau.
		Zwickau was a free imperial city from 1290-1323, but was granted to the margraves of Meissen afterward.
		From 1949-1990 Zwickau belonged to East Germany and was a center for the mining of coal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zwickau (757 words)

	Zwickau - LoveToKnow 1911
		ZWICKAU, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, situated in a pleasant valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge, on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 41 m.
		The mainstay of the industrial prosperity of the town is the adjacent coalfield, which in 1908 employed 13,000 hands, and yields 22 million tons of coal annually.
		The Anabaptist movement of 1525 began at Zwickau under the inspiration of the "Zwickau prophets." Robert Schumann (1810-1856), the musical composer, was born here in a house which still stands in the market-place.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Zwickau (502 words)

	Zwickau - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Zwickau was chartered in the early 13th cent., and it was a free imperial city from 1290 to 1323, when it passed to the margraves of Meissen.
		The city was (1520-23) the center of the Anabaptist movement of Thomas Münzer.
		Robert Schumann was born (1810) in Zwickau, and the city has a Schumann museum.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-zwickau.html (281 words)

	de Zwickau Zwickau is a town of Germany Germany in...
		de:Zwickau "Zwickau" is a town of Germany Germany, in the "Bundesland Bundesland" Saxony Saxony (Sachsen), situated in a pleasant valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge Erzgebirge, on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde Zwickauer Mulde, south of Leipzig Leipzig and south west of Chemnitz Chemnitz.
		Zwickau is of Slavonic Slavonic origin, and is mentioned in 1118 1118 as a trading place.
		The Anabaptist Anabaptist movement of 1525 1525 began at Zwickau under the inspiration of the "Zwickau prophet prophets." Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (1810-1856), the musical composer, was born here in a house which still stands in the marketplace.
	www.biodatabase.de /Zwickau (583 words)

	Andreas Carlstadt: The Reformation Goes Radical
		He had stirred up a religious excitement among the weavers of Zwickau in Saxony on the Bohemian frontier, perhaps in some connection with the Hussites or Bohemian Brethren, and organized the forces of a new dispensation by electing twelve apostles and seventy-two disciples.
		These Zwickau Prophets, as they were called, agreed with Carlstadt in combining an inward mysticism with practical radicalism.
		We may compare Carlstadt and the Zwickau Prophets with the Fifth Monarchy Men in the period of the English Commonwealth, who were likewise millennarian enthusiasts, and attempted, in opposition to Cromwell, to set up the "Kingdom of Jesus" or the fifth monarchy of Daniel.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/lutheranism/48138/3 (439 words)

	Baptists - LoveToKnow 1911
		One of the most notable of these radical anti-ecclesiastical movements was that of the Zwickau prophets, (Marcus Stiibner, Nikolaus Storch and Thomas Munzer): the most vigorous and notorious that of the Munster Anabaptists.
		Although they have been called the "harbingers" of the Anabaptists, the characteristic teaching of the Zwickau prophets was not Anabaptism.
		It is this daring faith in divine illumination that brings the Zwickau teachers most nearly into touch with the Anabaptists.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Baptists (7707 words)

	Anabaptists Encyclopedia Article @ Accorded.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It was long popular to simply lump all Anabaptists as Munsterites and radicals associated with the Zwickau Prophets, Jan Matthys, John of Leiden (also Jan Bockelson van Leiden, Jan of Leyden), and Thomas Muentzer.
		On December 27, 1521, three "prophets", influenced by and in turn influencing Thomas Müntzer, appeared in Wittenberg from Zwickau: Thomas Dreschel, Nicolas Storch and Mark Thomas Stübner.
		Neo-Anabaptist communities are often identifiable by their desire to live as a prophetic alternative to larger society through their commitment to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount as normative for the Christian life when empowered by the Holy Spirit.
	www.accorded.net /encyclopedia/Anabaptists (3547 words)

	Communalism (3) (Rexroth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Zwickau in those days was one of the largest cities in Germany, three times the size of Dresden.
		Tables were set up in the square and the whole population laughed and danced and sang while the king and queen and councilors served them, and at the end passed out sanctified bread and wine in holy communion.
		Bockelson then announced his abdication but Jan Dousentschuer, the limping prophet, immediately had a communication from the deity forbidding the abdication, and ceremoniously anointed and crowned Bockelson again, while the assembled people cheered.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /mirrors/www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism3.htm (10067 words)

	Thomas Münzer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		His appointment to the town of Zwickau in 1520 brought him into contact with the socially radical Zwickau prophets, and Münzer began proclaiming his vision of a purified Christianity, devoid of ecclesiastical and social hierarchies and dependent upon personal revelation and the immediacy of the Day of Judgment.
		Forced to leave Zwickau in 1521, Münzer went to Prague, where he further preached his visionary theology and vociferously denounced the social oppression of the poor which had been a result of ecclesiastical distortion of true Christian doctrine.
		In 1522 Münzer was appointed provisional pastor at Allstedt, where he married, carried out liturgical reforms (including services in the vernacular), and further developed his concept of the three stages in the true Christian life: utter despair, fear inspired by God, and finally personal illumination by the Holy Spirit.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-munzer (359 words)

	Anabaptists
		The Anabaptist movement started in 1521 in Wittenburg under three "prophets." Martin Luther had posted his thesis on the church doors only three years earlier and each Protestant sect was convinced that it was the one true faith.
		The Anabaptist Thomas Muntzer and the three "Zwickau prophets" believed in progressive revelation and with their manifest spirituality and charismatic authority they hoped to establish the kingdom of God through peaceful or forceful means by transforming the world into their own monastery.
		The only exception to the rule was the Anabaptists with their prophetic cry of liberty.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/anabap.htm (1221 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anabaptists
		A violent and extremely radical body of ecclesiastico-civil reformers which first made its appearance in 1521 at Zwickau, in the present kingdom of Saxony, and still exists in milder forms.
		The name Anabaptists, etymologically applicable, and sometimes applied to Christian denominations that practise re-baptism is, in general historical usage, restricted to those who, denying the validity of infant baptism, became prominent during the great reform movement of the sixteenth century.
		He was expelled from Zwickau (1521) and went to Bohemia, where he had but little success as a propagandist.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01445b.htm (1549 words)

	Zwickau prophets and the Peasants' War - Background - German Archive: On December 27, 1521, three 'prophets', ...
		Zwickau prophets and the Peasants' War - Background - German Archive: On December 27, 1521, three 'prophets', influenced by and in turn influencing Thomas Müntzer, appeared in Wittenberg from Zwickau: Thomas Dreschel, Nicolas Storch and Mark Thomas Stübner.
		Hence the charge that Anabaptists were enemies of learning, which is sufficiently rebutted by the fact that the first German translation of the Hebrew prophets was made and printed by two of them, Hetzer and Denck, in 1527.
		On the 6th of March Luther returned, interviewed the prophets, scorned their 'spirits', forbade them the city, and had their adherents ejected from Zwickau and Erfurt.
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	Test the Spirits - The Charismatic Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Montanus was proved to be a false prophet when his prediction of the second coming and the descent 6f the New Jerusalem failed.
		The prophets of the Old Testament attested the authenticity of their ministries with fulfilled prophecies and coherence with previous revelation.
		Charismatic prophets generally do not claim that they are speaking with the same authority as Scripture.
	www.dtl.org /hardcopy/charismatic.htm (3282 words)

	Excerpt : History of the Christian Church
		Thomas Münzer, one of the Zwickau Prophets, and an eloquent demagogue, was the apostle and travelling evangelist of the social revolution, and a forerunner of modern socialism, communism, and anarchism.
		He was born at Stolberg in the Harz Mountain (1590); studied theology at Leipzig; embraced some of the doctrines of the Reformation, and preached them in the chief church at Zwickau; but carried them to excess, and was deposed.
		He was at enmity with the whole existing order of society, and imagined himself the divinely inspired prophet of a new dispensation, a sort of communistic millennium, in which there should be no priests, no princes, no nobles, and no private property, but complete democratic equality.
	www.biblesoftonline.com /html_asp/eshop/popwin/hcc_exc.htm (2238 words)

	Luther And The German Reformation From The Diet of Worms To The Close Of the Diet Of Augsburg (1521-1530)
		Zwickau was the first prolific source of the new order of prophets.
		Expelled from Zwickau, the new prophets carried their views to other quarters.
		Thus the Zwickau prophets found ready allies, and matters at Wittenberg assumed a phase which gave serious trouble and apprehension to sober minds.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /sheldon/luther_diet_augsburg.html (4155 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Anabaptists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A Protestant sect of the Reformation period which appeared in 1521 at Zwickau.
		The fanatical Anabaptists were active in Saxony, Thuringia, and other parts of Germany, and were the so-called "Zwickau Prophets." Luther drove them from Wittenberg, but their leader, Storch, continued his propaganda, particularly in Thuringia where he was one of the principal legislators of the Peasants' War.
		The Anabaptist tenets regarding infant baptism were adopted by the Baptists, the lineal descendants of the sober Anabaptists.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saintS/ncd00482.htm (210 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation. \| Christian Classics Ethereal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		About Christmas, 1521, the revolutionary movement was reinforced by two fanatics from Zwickau, Nicolaus Storch, a weaver, and Marcus Thomä Stübner.
		A few weeks afterwards Thomas Münzer, a millennarian enthusiast and eloquent demagogue, who figures prominently in the Peasants’ War, appeared in Wittenberg for a short time.
		He had no confidence in visions and dreams, but could not satisfactorily answer the objections to infant baptism, which the prophets declared useless because a foreign faith of parents or sponsors could not save the child.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc7.ii.iv.vii.html (1258 words)

	The Reformation's Repudiation of Chiliasm
		Early in 1534 a Dutch prophet and ex-innkeeper named John of Leyden appeared in Munster, believing that he was called to make the city the new Jerusalem.
		Several of the "Zwickau prophets," men identified by the city from which they had come, came to Wittenberg in Luther's absence.
		He began to preach that the ungodly were to be eliminated and that the elect (those who received the Spirit, that is, special revelations) would establish a kingdom of God on earth.
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	Christian History Handbook: Early Modern: Lecture Sixteen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		From the Spring of 1523 to the summer of 1524 Müntzer was pastor at Alstedt, a parish near Eisleben.
		When Zwickau ousted Thomas Müntzer in 1521 they also expelled some of his closest followers who came to be known as the Zwickau Prophets.
		One of the Zwickau Prophets, Nicholas Storch, was also in Strasbourg and may have influenced Hofman who developed a strong conviction about the Last Things.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34633e16.html (3147 words)

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		The movement itself began with the appearance of the so-called "prophets of Zwickau", Thomas Munzer and Nicholas Storch, in 1520.
		It is not difficult to imagine the spiritual environment in which the French Prophets were to take root; the Saint Bartholomew’s massacre and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes were undoubtedly fresh on the minds of those marginalized pockets of Huguenot dissenters who populated the rural regions of the south of France.
		The "prophetic spirit" of the Camisards was translated from France to England, via the exiles, and many novelties were proposed in the alleged prophecies.
	www.unitypublishing.com /NewReligiousMovements/WhatSpirit3.html (10293 words)

	A History of the Reformation in the 16th Century Book 9
		The Zwickau prophets appeared in Wittenberg and began to sway many, including Carlstadt.
		But the fervor in which these men preached struck a cord with Carlstadt and he was caught up in their fervor and zeal.
		Luther also took time to dispel the radical prophets from the city who had come in the name of God, but were fanatics of the devil.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Reformation/HistoryReformation/McMahonBook9.htm (3246 words)

	The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie
		These men are known as the "Zwickau Prophets," from the little town of Zwickau, in which they took their rise.
		Stork was joined by Mark Thomas, another weaver of Zwickau; by Mark Stubner, formerly a student at Wittenberg; and by Thomas Munzer, who was the preacher of the "new Gospel." That Gospel comprehended whatever Stork was pleased to say had been revealed to him by the angel Gabriel.
		The magistrates interfered: the new prophets were banished: Munzer went to Prague; Stork, Thomas, and Stubner took the road to Wittenberg.
	www.whatsaiththescripture.com /Voice/History.Protestant.v1.b9.html (15586 words)

	Zwickau
		Among the nine churches, the fine Gothic church of St Mary (1451-1536 and restored 1885-1891), with a spire 285 ft. high and a bell weighing 5!
		The discovery of silver in the Schneeberg[?] in 1470 brought it much wealth.
		Original text from an old 1911 encyclopedia - Please update as needed
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/zw/Zwickau.html (431 words)

	The Doctrine of the Ministry As Taught by the Dogmaticians of the Lutheran Church
		For the prophets and apostles, inasmuch as they were called, have the witness of the Spirit and of miracles that they did not err in doctrine; so that other ministers, in the church, might be obliged to derive their doctrines from the prophets and apostles, and prove it thence, or be accursed.
		The existence in the present period of an immediate outward call, and the necessity of this form of call, was involved in the old struggle between the Reformers and some of the extreme Anabaptists, such as the Zwickau prophets, who pretended to have received outward revelations, and who fanaticism was soon easily recognized.
		The prophets came saying, 'Thus saith the Lord.' Men were required to believe and obey what was commanded to them, and not what the Spirit revealed to each individual.
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