Abstract
Hans Denck (1500-1527) is known as one of the primary charactersin the South German Anabaptist movement. Denck has beencharacterized as a humanist with a high view of the personal freedomof human beings. Based on an analysis of Dencks concept of the difference,or even opposition, between God and human beings, his ideaof yieldedness (gelassenheit), spiritualism and conception of the humanwill, this article argues that Dencks position should be characterized ascritical spiritualism rather than humanism, in so far as the spiritual crisisinflicted on human beings
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