Zwickau prophets

The Zwickau prophets were a 16th-century Anabaptist sect whose leaders, such as Storch and Thomas Müntzer, claimed to possess prophetic powers. They were part of the radical Reformation, a movement that emerged alongside the broader Protestant Reformation led by figures like Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli. The Anabaptists, in general, advocated for the separation of church and state, voluntary church membership, and religious liberty. However, some groups, including those influenced by Müntzer, held more extreme views, sometimes involving apocalyptic beliefs and a willingness to use force, which set them apart from the more pacifist Anabaptists.123