Title: What was the impact of the German Peasant War (1524-1527) on the Reformation? - DailyHistory.org
Headings: What was the impact of the German Peasant War (1524-1527) on the Reformation?
What was the impact of the German Peasant War (1524-1527) on the Reformation?
The Peasant Wars Origins
The Peasant War
Martin Luther and the Peasants War
Prince’s Reformation
Popular Reformation
Conclusion
References

Content: This prompted him to write the polemic ‘Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants’. In this work, he used strong language to call for the extermination of the rebels who had ‘’become the worst blasphemers of God and slanderers of his holy name.” Luther, under the influence of St Augustine, believed that humanity would be deprived and prone to evil. Only a strong monarch or government could control the evil nature, especially of the lower orders. As a result of the Peasants War, existing trends in the Reformation were confirmed and even became entrenched in Lutheranism. The Protestant Churches were to support the existing social order, which was hierarchal and socially conservative. Lutheranism in part, because of the Peasant War, became a faith that was very much concerned with social order and discipline. Initially, Luther had seemed to promise a Church that was more liberal, but after the Peasant’s War, it became noticeably more conservative and even reactionary. Prince’s Reformation
The Reformation had always been dependent on the support of the elite. They had helped Luther to defy the Pope.