For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The collected works of Thomas Müntzer

by Münzer, Thomas (1988)

Key Passage

O how rotten the elect have become! That is why [God] himself has hired me for his harvest. U have sharpened my sickle, for my thoughts yearn for the truth which my lips, skin, hands, hair, soul, body and life I call down curses on the unbelievers.  (p.371)

Keywords

Thomas Müntzer, Reformation, Protestantism, Peasants Revolt, Gods Work, Theology, Social History

Themes

Protestantism, Religious Views on Work

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