Vokietijos istorijos instituto Varšuvoje padalinys Vilniuje bendradarbiaudamas su Vilniaus Universiteto Istorijos fakultetu, birželio 2 d. maloniai kviečia Jus į Dr. Bethan Winter paskaitą On Great Men and Geniuses: Between Exceptionalism and Egalitarianism in Marxist Thought and Socialist Policies in 20th Century Europe.
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Thomas Müntzer’s revolutionary theology evokes scenarios, in which Christ and Antichrist are gathering their troops for the final clash, before the elect of God will take dominion over the world. The apocalyptic character of these scenarios is readily apparent; however, it has been largely overlooked how deeply Müntzer’s thought is rooted in philosophical discourses, especially Neo-Platonic cosmology. According to Müntzer, humans have fallen out of the spiritual world into the sensible world where, enmeshed in creaturely desires, they have forgotten about their origin. The office of reformation preachers is not only to awaken the people and to remind them of their divine origin, but also to make aware of what reformation actually means: the purification of every individual from sinfulness through persecution and suffering, the gathering of the elect from all nations and religions, and the removal obstacles to radical reform, such as princes, monks, priests, and moderate reformers. In Müntzer’s view the existing religio-political structures of Christianity have assumed the form of a collective Antichrist and caused a cosmic crisis, since they obstruct the return of the human souls into the spiritual world. The solution of the crisis will require massive killing and bloodshed, Müntzer prophesies, but it will allow for the divinization (Vergottung) of the elect. As I will show, many elements of this theological program have been created in conscious opposition to Martin Luther, Müntzer’s main opponent in the early Reformation movement.
Biographical note:
Matthias Riedl is an associate professor of history at Central European University, Vienna, and chair of CEU’s Advanced Certificate Program in Political Thought. He also taught at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Duke University, Durham, NC, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His research focuses on the relation between religion and politics in Western Christianity, from late antiquity to the early modern period. His current research is on the emergence of revolutionary apocalypticsm in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity; and he’s writing a monograph on the German radical reformer Thomas Müntzer. He is the author of a monograph on the 12th century apocalyptic thinker Joachim of Fiore (2004), numerous articles on the history of religious and political thought, as well as (co-)editor of volumes on Prophets and Prophecies (2005), Humans at War, at Peace with Nature (2006), Religions – The Religious Experience (2008), God or Gods? (2009), The City –Axis and Centre of the World (2011), The Apocalyptic Complex (2018), and Companion to Joachim of Fiore (2018).