Thomas Müntzer
c. 1489-1525 · Reformation · Prominent
Müntzer was a German priest who broke with Luther over whether God still speaks. He does, Müntzer held, though only into a soul that terror has emptied first, which makes a comfortable faith the mark of damnation. Scripture is a testimony and the living word comes direct. From 1524 he preached that separating the wheat from the tares was a present task and that the sword must pass to the elect. He was beheaded in 1525.
Signature
The position Müntzer is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Ignorance
- strongly leans Bondage
- Authority
- Divine Revelation
Positions on the 10 axes the sources answer
- The Divine
- leans Describable (25 on a 0–100 scale from Describable to Indescribable)
- Meaning
- strongly leans Inherent (94 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Truth
- leans Objective (85 on a 0–100 scale from Subjective to Objective)
- Opposition
- leans Sublation (19 on a 0–100 scale from Sublation to Concurrence)
- Polity
- strongly leans Illiberalism (6 on a 0–100 scale from Illiberalism to Liberalism)
- Ethics
- strongly leans Means (94 on a 0–100 scale from Ends to Means)
- War
- strongly leans Militarism (100 on a 0–100 scale from Pacifism to Militarism)
- Ignorance
- strongly leans Bondage (0 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
- Conviction
- leans Certain (70 on a 0–100 scale from Uncertain to Certain)
- Allegiance
- mildly leans Global (69 on a 0–100 scale from Local to Global)
10 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Müntzer refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Communal Order
What is your ideal form of government? - Highest Good
- Union with God
What is the highest good? - Good and Evil
- Divine Drama
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - End of Things
- Apocalyptic Renewal / Division of Good and Evil
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Knowledge
- Grounded in God
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Divine Command
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Synergism
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Time
- Eschatological
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Authority
- Divine Revelation
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Paradox
- Coincidentia Oppositorum
What is the status of paradox? - Law
- Divine Law
What is the ultimate source of legitimate law? - Death
- Judgement
What happens at death? - Role of Emotion
- Path to the Divine
What is the proper role of emotion? - Human Nature
- Redeemably Corrupted
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- The Divine
What is your primary bond and loyalty?