Abstract
It is the author's hypothesis that the history of Christian heretical movements can be revisited from the point of view of the relationship — which could be described, in some of its aspects, as paradoxical — between the two extreme forms of religious experience and political experience: mysticism, as the highest degree of interior experience, and armed popular revolution, as the most radical moment of political engagement. The radical movement of the Reformation, Thomas Müntzer's thought and the events of the German Peasant War of 1525 are selected as a starting point because of their capacity to represent the most complete and coherent model of such a relationship, a model which, when projected over the entire span of the history of heretical movements of Christianity's second millennium, will yield interesting insights.
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