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A revolutionary Bible? Thomas Muntzer and Gerrard Winstanley: Roland Boer writes on the Peasants' Revolt and the True Levellers.(Essay)

My guess is that most readers of this magazine would find a 'revolutionary Bible' an oxymoron, much like Christian communism or religious secularism. Surely you cannot put that textbook of repression and conservatism in a touching embrace with revolution? But that is exactly what I want to do, even to the point of suggesting that they have often been the closest of friends.

More than one revolutionary has drawn on the Bible for inspiration. Indeed, the list of such revolutionaries is a long one, running through to our own day with the grass roots 'base communities' of liberation theology in South America and Africa. But I will restrict myself to two of my favourite ...

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