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Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (1490-1561)

Protestant spiritualist(?).

A nobleman from Liegnitz?, he was one of the earliest promoters of the Reformation? in Silesia, he came to Reformation principles through Muntzer? and Karlstadt?. However he developed his own principles and fell out with Luther over the eucharistic controversy (1524). He had his own views on the sacraments - the Heavenly Flesh doctrine. He founded a new sect, which was outlawed in Germany, but his ideas influenced Anabaptism?, Puritanism? in England and the [Pietistic Movement]? on mainland Europe.


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